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Visual Learning Systems
Preparing Healthy Foods
This video provides helpful tips and goals for preparing healthy meals. It emphasizes the importance of limiting fat, sodium, and sugar in meals and provides suggestions for healthier alternatives. Healthy Eating Habits part 6/9
Healthcare Triage
Sadly, Putting Calorie Counts on Menus is Ineffective
We're eating too much. There are lots of people who think that menu labelling, or putting the number of calories in stuff up on the wall, will help people to eat more healthily. Sounds great, right? You think there might be some research...
Healthcare Triage
Exercise is NOT the Key to Weight Loss
Last week I talked about the many ways exercise is awesome. This week I want to focus on one way it's not. Weight loss. Sorry, but that's the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage.
Curated Video
Finding Unit Rates by Reading Graphs
In this video, students will learn how to find unit rates by reading graphs. The instructor explains the concept of unit rate using examples and demonstrates how to identify the unit rate from a graph.
Healthcare Triage
Diets! Which Ones Work for Losing Weight and Keeping it Off?
There are so, so many diets out there. Some are low in fat, others are low in carbs. Some involve special foods, others tell you to avoid them. So what's the best diet for you? Watch and learn!
Visual Learning Systems
Ratios and Rates: Rates
This series of videos investigates the meaning of ratios and rates. Special emphasis is given to the processes of comparing ratios and simplifying ratios. Real-life examples help students comprehend these often hard-to-teach concepts.
Neuro Transmissions
The Neuroscience of Eating Disorders
Many of us are lucky enough to live in a world where food is easily accessible. We no longer have to hunt wild animals or scrounge for edible plants to survive. However, in spite of (or likely because of) this luxury, millions of people...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Food Labels
The video is about how to read and understand food labels in order to make informed choices about what we eat. The video uses a yogurt container as an example and demonstrates how to interpret the information on the label, including the...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding the Food Pyramid and Daily Nutrient Requirements
This video discusses the importance of a balanced diet and provides guidance on using the food pyramid to determine daily nutrient requirements. It specifically focuses on the example of dietary requirements for a 13-year-old girl who...
Lesson Planet
EdTech Tuesday: Eat and Move-O-Matic
Are you trying to raise awareness about nutrition and making healthy choices but need help finding a resource that engages students? Then you've come to the right place. In this short video, Jennifer and Rich demonstrate the Eat &...
PBS
Food Is Fuel
Which has more calories, a cupcake or a rat? The odd question grabs pupils' attention as they learn about food as fuel in an intriguing installment of the PBS food science playlist. The video explains how scientists use a bomb...
Teacher's Pet
Heat in Changes of State
Melting ice seems pretty easy, right? But what's actually happening is much more complex! Introduce the class to enthalpy calculations using a video tutorial. The narrator explains and performs the calculations that show the energy at...
National Science Foundation
Science of NFL Football: Nutrition, Hydration and Health
How does what you eat compare to an NFL football player? The final video in a 10-part series explains the nutrition requirements at the extreme level of an NFL player. The instructor explains the key nutrients and their nutritional...
Fuse School
Calorimeter
There is much more to calories than what you see on a nutrition label. The 34th lesson in a 35-part video series explains calories on a scientific level. The comprehensive video gives examples and shows how to measure calories of a given...
SciShow
Social Interaction and the 'Bliss Molecule'
Increased oxytocin helps people read facial expressions with greater accuracy. Video explores the way this hormone impacts social interactions and highlights the way scientists perform research to confirm the findings. Then the video...
SciShow
Why We Age - And How We Can Stop It
As we get older, we age, our bodies and minds deteriorate, but this isn't true of all species. The video begins with why we age and what biological processes cause aging. Then it covers research on worms, mice, and other animals that...
TED-Ed
What Is a Calorie?
Learners discover how we measure a healthy energy budget for our bodies with this educational video from TED-Ed. It reviews not only the definition of a calorie, but also such concepts as basal metabolic rate and how...
Curated OER
How to Read a Nutrition Label
Take a look down a grocery aisle and you will see nutrition labels on every can and box of food. Do you know how to read the labels? This video shows you briefly what a nutrition label looks like and a few of the elements listed on each...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Quantifying the Energy Associated With Everyday Things and Events
This lesson is about energy and how it manifests itself in every day things and events. In particular, the video focuses on quantification or estimation of energy. The main learning objectives are to: gain familiarity with units of...
US Food and Drug Administration
Fda: Making Healthy Choices Using the Nutrition Facts Label
Choosing a packaged food or beverage that's right for you is easier when you check out the Nutrition Facts label. It's designed to help you compare foods and make healthy choices. The label has four key sections that help you weigh your...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Label Reading Part 2
In this video, Move It! cast members learn the importance of reading nutrition labels and what parts are most significant. [1:31]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Label Reading Part 1
This video helps people of all ages read nutrition labels correctly. Pat Mizerak registered dietician at United Health Services, points out important things on a label such as serving size and calories. [1:38]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Calories
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos provide practical and positive examples of healthy eating with an emphasis on calories. Students learn about how calories are used in digestion to turn into energy, but consuming too many calories means...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pyramid and Plate
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, Fizzy interviews Food Pyramid, who tells him that he's retiring! But wait, there's a new food helper in town-- Food Plate! Students learn about the idea of the Food Plate, that divides the average meal...