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FOSS Resource Materials

This page was created for Iowa educators who are using Science Kits in their classrooms. It is designed to help teachers locate resources and materials which support science kits and are available from Heartland AEA 11. Teachers will find professional library books, videos, software, children's books, and Web links that correspond to science kits at all grade levels.

Food and Nutrition

Web Sites


Dole 5 a Day
http://www.dietitian.com/

Family Food Zone
http://www.familyfoodzone.com/fridge.html

Food Safety Activity Book
http://www.foodsafety.gov/~dms/cbook.html

Food and Nutrition Information Center
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/000045.html

How Stuff Works: Nutrition
http://www.howstuffworks.com/category-nutrition.htm

NAT Energy Calculator
http://www.nat.uiuc.edu/energy/

Nutrition and Food: Finding the Right Stuff
http://www.sfu.ca/~jfremont/nutrition.html

Food and Nutrition: Finding the Right Stuff
http://www.sfu.ca/~jfremont/kidsnutrition.html

Software
Body Park Version 1.4 (102086)
Communicable & Noncommunicable Diseases School Edition Version 2.8 (101808)
Professional Books
Comprehensive School Health Challenge: Promoting Health Through Education, V.1 (216678)
Growing Healthy: Our Digestion, Our Nutrition, and Our Health, Grade 4 (218918)
Jaw Breakers and Heart Thumpers: A Study in Fun Foods and Body Basics (217616)
Nutrition in Health: A Curriculum Guide (215530)
Nutrition Mission (213691)
Space Food and Nutrition: An Educator's Guide with Activities in Science and Mathematics (223357)
Vitamin C Testing (217747)

Children’s Books

Choosing a Career in Nutrition (134491)
Eat Right: Tips For Good Nutrition (143714)
Food and Health (137889)
Food and Your Health (136255)
The Food Pyramid (137310)
Proteins (129302)
Vitamins and Minerals (137309)

Videos
Bill Nye the Science Guy: Nutrition (802849)
Building Your Own Food Pyramid (062231)
Choosing Foods With Jack the Apple (069028)
Digestion and Nutrition (069099)
Fast Food (069202)
Fat (069193)
Five a Day With Jack the Apple (069026)
Getting Active With Jack the Apple (069024)
Milk (069195)
Sugar (069198)
Tomatoes (069194)
FOSS- Link to Modules Descriptions
http://www.delta-ed.com/teachers/science/fossmodules.html

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This document is intended for the use of curriculum adoptioncommittees, curriculum supervisors, school administrators, science coordinators, teachers, and parents in the Heartland area.  It may be reproduced in whole or in part for nonprofit educational purposes.