Healthy Fun

Our Food Facts Display

Here at the Ruth Lilly Health Education Center, we are constantly striving to use the latest technology to create enjoyable and engaging tools for teaching health education in our classrooms. Our Food Facts Display module is an online example of a simple interactive visual that clearly and immediately conveys important nutrition information concerning carbohydrate, protein and fat content for 50 diverse food items. Feel free to use the Food Facts Display in your classroom in conjunction with your nutrition lessons.

Links to Websites for Kids

Below is a list of websites featuring educational content especially for children and of interest to parents and educators. Explore and enjoy!

Great Sites for Kids! Great Sites For Kids helps parents and teachers find educational and entertaining websites for kids to use both at home and in the classroom.

Scholastic The scholastic.com website is dedicated to "Helping Children to Learn, Grow and Be Happy." The site's content is for kids, families, teachers, administrators and librarians.

BAM! - Body and Mind  This unique online destination for kids 9 - 13 years old was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The site's mission is to provide children information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices.

KidsHealth Produced by the Nemours Foundation and dedicated to improving the health and spirit of children, KidsHealth is for kids, teens and parents, providing valuable health education information.

The Cool Spot Created for kids 11-13 years old by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), The Cool Spot gives teens a clearer picture about alcohol use among their peers and helps them learn skills to resist pressure to drink and to give them reasons not to drink.

Brain Pop A critically acclaimed educational online resource for children grades     K - 8 featuring hundreds of math, science, English and social studies movies.

American Dental Association The ADA site has a section especially for kids featuring animations about good dental hygiene and a special animation to help prepare children for their first visit to the dentist.

American Dental Hygienists' Association The national association for dental hygienists' website provides Common Questions (and expert answers), Tooth Facts for Kids and games, all tailored for children.

PBS Kids Here you'll find games, stories, music and coloring along with all the beloved PBS Kids characters like Barney, Clifford, the Berenstain Bears and the Teletubbies, as well as the classic Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

Sesame Street This long-time television program friend of both children and parents makes for an agreeable online experience, too.

Nickelodeon This is Nickelodeon's energetic website, where you'll find SpongeBob Squarepants, Jimmy Neutron, Zoey 101 and other kids' favorites.

Discovery Kids is the companion website for the Discovery Channel's programming for children. And be sure to check out the yuckiest site on the Internet.

National Geographic.com for Kids An offshoot of the National Geographic Society's magazine for children, this site offers news, pictures, games and more as it informs children about our world in a framework that's especially appealing to them.

Sports Illustrated for Kids The website from the publishers of Sports Illustrated for Kids (and Sports Illustrated) magazine.

Highlights For more than 50 years, millions of children have grown up with Highlights magazine. While visiting the site, be sure to check out HighlightsKids.com, available free to Highlights subscribers.

 

Dole 5 A Day From the Dole Food Company Inc., the Dole 5 A Day website encourages people to eat more fruits and vegetables and to be more physically active.

Fast Food Nutrition Fact Explorer

The Fast Food Nutrition Fact Explorer helps people make healthy food choices at fast food restaurants. It provides nutrition facts sorted by total calories, fat calories, percentage of calories from fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates and protein or fiber.

Nutrition.gov Sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Nutrition.gov provides food and nutrition information from the federal government and educational institutions. Content covers nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity and food safety for consumers, educators and health professionals.

Food Pyramid Tracker Here, kids ages 7 - 10 can get better acquainted with the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid. This site is sponsored by the Virginia Department of Health.

Nutrition Explorations This site is "The Fun and Easy Way to Teach and Learn Nutrition." It's designed for kids, teachers, parents and school food service personnel.

In Support of Young People