Soft Drinks and Health

Look out stomach!
education.qld.gov.au/tal/tips/02434.html

Healthy canteens
 http://www.schoolcanteens.org.au/default.asp?action=category&ID=3&order=rank&sort=asc&limit=0

 http://www.chdf.org.au/icms_wrapper page=486&issurvey=&rand=0.08541664970552864&via_smartchoice=&return=no

 http://www.chdf.org.au/icms_wrapper page=486&issurvey=&rand=0.08541664970552864&via_smartchoice=&return=no

 http://www.healthyactive.gov.au/docs/schoolcommu_resourcekit.pdf

http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au/info_docs/canteen_menu.htm
 

 excellent information at http://www.nutritionaustralia.org/

especially http://www.nutritionaustralia.org/Nutrition_In_Schools/  They even have an awards scheme

http://www.nutritionaustralia.org/Nutrition_In_Schools/Pyramid_Awards_Index.asp

Food For Thought
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0011/food/index.html
Find out about the mysteries of the supermarket and complete a quiz to test your knowledge.

Diet Riot
http://www.dietriot.com/fff/rest.html
Information about ingredient lists and nutritional counts of many fast food brands.

Smart Mouth
http://www.cspinet.org/smartmouth/index1.html
Recipes and information about snack foods.

Food Processing
http://www.suzy.co.nz/SuzysWorld/Factpage.asp?FactSheet=52
Information about food processing and problems that can occur in these processes.

Have A Bite Cafe
http://exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition/cafe/cafe.html
Create your own nutritional fast food menu online.

Nutrition Australia
http://www.nutritionaustralia.org/Food_Facts/Fact_Sheets/food_variety_fs.asp
Nutrition Australia provides information on healthy eating and encourages Australians to eat around 30 different foods each day.

The Best and Worst Food For Kids
http://www.cspinet.org/nutrition/10b&w.html
This site lists the 10 worst and 10 best foods for kids.

Arnott\'s Factory Tour
http://www.arnotts.com/School/Tour/Tourmain.asp
Take a virtual tour of the Arnott\'s biscuit factory.

Exploring Chocolate
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/exploring_chocolate/index.html
Learn about where chocolate comes from and how it is processed.

Chocolate Engineering
http://www.engineergirl.org/nae/cwe/egcars.nsf/weblinks/CTON-4THVDV?opendocument
Find out about the process of creating chocolate from the test kitchen to mass production.

Pizza Explorer
http://12.156.197.18/pizza/
Learn about the history of pizza and the processes involved in cooking a pizza.

Food-Related Inventors and Inventions
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/food.shtml
Learn about some food-related inventors and their inventions.

The Real Truth About Fast Food
http://library.thinkquest.org/4485/
Site created by students that presents information about fast food.

Nutrition Information - Fast Food
http://library.thinkquest.org/4485/mcdcharts.htm
Junior Thinkquest entry which provides data relating to various fast foods.

Bega Cheese
http://www.begacheese.com.au/education/education_main.html
FAQs and virtual tour of the Bega Cheese factory.

Dairy Australia
http://www.dairyaustralia.com.au/template_default.asp?Page=Content/For_Students/Primary_and_Junior_Secondary/index.htm
Information about how dairy products are made and the history of the dairy industry in Australia.

Cadbury Australia
http://www.cadbury.com.au/sites/cadbury/index.php?pageId=9
Learn about how chocolate is produced and go on a virtual tour of the factory.

Golden Circle
http://www.gcl.com.au/content/index.cfm?ID=45
Virtual tour of a fruit cannery.

Burger King
http://www.bk.com/
Find out nutritional information about these food products.

Subway
http://www.subway.com/subwayroot/index.aspx
Homepage of this fast food chain. Includes nutritional information about products.

Pizza Hut
http://www.pizzahut.com/
Homepage of this fast food chain. Includes nutritional information about products.

McDonalds Australia
http://www.mcdonalds.com.au/home/structure.asp?ID=
Nutritional information about McDonalds products.

Peanut Butter Lovers
http://www.peanutbutterlovers.com/
Find out how peanuts are grown and made into peanut butter.

Understanding Food Labels
http://www.ncagr.com/cyber/kidswrld/nutrition/Labels.htm
In order to plan a healthy diet, we must know how to read a food label.

Hangi Fact Sheet
http://www.suzy.co.nz/SuzysWorld/Factpage.asp?
Learn about this special way of preparing food in New Zealand.

Refrigerator Fact Sheet
http://www.suzy.co.nz/SuzysWorld/Factpage.asp?FactSheet=52
Learn why we keep food in a refridgerator.

Food: How Safe? How Altered?
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0205/sights_n_sounds/media2.html
Multimedia presentation showing how food travels from the field to your table.

Nutrition and Food Safety
http://www.agr.state.nc.us/cyber/kidswrld/
Games, quizzes and information about food nutrition and safety.

Food-ad Tricks
http://www.zillions.org/Features/Foodadtricks/Food_ad001.html
It\'s part of Patty the burger\'s make-up. Just like any TV celebrity, this plump, pampered, photogenic star spent hours in makeup and wardrobe.

About the Food You Eat
http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/4_class/45_pguides/pguide_302/4532_food.html#act1
Complete this quiz and test your knowledge of the food we eat.

Arthur - Kids in the Kitchen
http://pbskids.org/arthur/parentsteachers/activities/acts/kids_kitchen.html
Try their hand at these simple recipes.

Wheat - From The Field To You
http://www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/virtualfarm/wheat/wheat_farm_to_you.html
Get ready to find out how wheat gets from the farm to you using this presentation.

Lessons

The Meaning of Food
http://www.pbs.org/opb/meaningoffood/classroom/
This lesson helps students learn about different cultures through classroom discussion and a research project.

Comparing Calories in Fast Food Burgers and Chicken
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/concepts/health/activity2.shtm
This lesson focuses on a comparison of hamburgers and chicken sandwiches from three leading fast-food restaurants.

Fast Food Around The World
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/10/g68/fastfood.html
Students will use the Internet or the library to research the food of four other countries.

Have It Your Way And Fast
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/19981008thursday.html
Lesson about some of the technology behind fast food restaurants.

Ideas with Food
http://illuminations.nctm.org/index_o.aspx?id=78
These lessons focus on student organization, preparation, and presentation of some simple foods as a way to apply various mathematical concepts, with problem-solving techniques being central to almost all the activities.

Food Preservation
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=396
To help students understand how various food preservation techniques help to slow down the spoiling of food by microscopic organisms.

Farming: Packaging and Transport
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?Grade=k-2&BenchmarkID=8&DocID=434
To familiarize students with the special packaging and transport that many foods require in order to stay fresh during their journey from the farm to people's dinner tables.

Eat Your Veggies
http://illuminations.nctm.org/index_o.aspx?id=114
In this unit, students collect and display food data in a variety of ways, beginning with tallies and pictographs.

Nutrition and Health
http://www.nelliemuller.com/Nutrition_WebQuest.lessonplan.htm
This activity will allow the students to learn the importance of healthy eating and how making healthy choices of foods will keep their bodies healthy.

Pyramid Power
http://education.nmsu.edu/webquest/wq/food/NutritionWebquest.html
You will be serving on a committee to formulate the menu for a new fast food franchise in your town.

Fast Food Fat
http://studenthome.nku.edu/~webquest/Pidgeon/fast%20food%20webquest.htm
Students investigate fast food options for their school.

Nutrition and Foods WebQuest
http://teacherweb.com/TN/TTU/nutritionwebquest/h2.stm
You will be helping create a menu for a new fast food franchise in your town.

Webquest: Let\'s Eat
http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/bb_site_intro/stage2_Modules/foodstage2/foodstuff.htm
Your team has been appointed the student supervisors for the school canteen. Your task is to design a recipe for the next \"Fast Food Fun Day\".

Packaging Tricks
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/elementary/advertising_marketing/packaging_tricks.cfm
This lesson introduces students to the ways in which packaging is designed to attract kids.

All Wrapped Up
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/class/edis/590s4/Miller/All_Wrapped_Up.htm
Students will understand the purpose of packaging and to be able to identify wasteful packaging.

School Food Waste Activity
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/class/edis/590s4/Miller/School_Waste.htm
Students will see how much food is thrown away at their school each day by planning and conducting an investigation using appropriate instruments and metric measures to collect, record, and report data.

Food Timeline
http://www.foodtimeline.org/food2a.html
Food history, styling and advertising lesson plans.
 

The World's Healthiest Foods List, A-Z

Among the thousands of different foods our world provides, the majority contain at least several of the nutrients our bodies need but to be included as one of the World's Healthiest Foods they had to meet the criteria listed below.

  Here is a link from Harvard University which gives a brief explanation
 of it all and the new visual pyramid -

 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/pyramids.htmlFood Network.com: 

Holiday Archives
   Recipes and menus for major and some minor holidays (including
   April Fool's Day, Mardi Gras, and Oktoberfest). Cooks will
   appreciate the sidebar topics that pop up with every recipe: Terms
   and Tips Encyclopedia, Culinary Q and As, Ingredient Substitutes,
   and Fat and Calorie Calculator.

  http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/et_holidays

5 a Day Games
http://www.dole5aday.com/MusicAndPlay/M_Games.jsp
This site provides a number of interactive games related to the food
pyramid, food groups and children's nutrition issues. The games include
a food trivia challenge, vending machine mania, snack man challenge, 5 a
day detectives, comic book fun, slide puzzles, salad factory, creating
recipes, and colouring pages.  

NutritionData
   This site provides a searchable database of food composition and nutrition information. Each result includes a nutrition facts panel; a calorie ratio pyramid for carbohydrates, fats, and protein; and detailed information about minerals, vitamins, and other components of the food item. Also includes nutritional data for some fast-food restaurants and
  other nutrition tools. Information is based primarily on data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), supplemented by other sources.
   http://www.nutritiondata.com/   

Pizza Explorer
http://www.accessexcellence.org/pizza/
The Pizza Explorer from Purdue University's Institute of Food
Technologists was created to teach students about food science and the
chemistry of food components through hands-on interactive activities.
Students explore information about eight common ingredients of pizza to
learn about each food's history, chemistry, processing, nutritional
composition and more. Each section also includes a quiz, game and 'hot
topics' about that ingredient.

 Wheat: From The Farm To you

http://www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/virtualfarm/wheat/wheat_farm_to_you.html#
 Virtual tour of the journey of wheat from the farm to you.

http://www.kidfood.org/

http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/food.html

Songs

http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0015.html

   Food Network.com: Holiday Archives
   Recipes and menus for major and some minor holidays (including April Fool's Day, Mardi Gras, and Oktoberfest).  Cooks will appreciate the sidebar topics that pop up with every recipe: Terms and Tips Encyclopaedia, Culinary Q and  As, Ingredient Substitutes, and Fat and Calorie Calculator.
   http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/et_holidays
  

Teaching Ideas - Nutrition
http://www.curriculumsupport.nsw.edu.au/pdhpe/index.cfm?u=3&i=168
This section of the PDHPE (Personal Development, Health and Physical Education K-12 - New South Wales Education Department) website, developed in conjunction with NSW Health, provides teachers with information on nutrition education and ideas for teaching about nutrition as part of the PDHPE Syllabus. It includes information about The importance of nutrition education; The place of nutrition education in the curriculum; Nutrition guidelines; Nutrition resources; Sample classroom activities; and Consultancy support for schools.

You are what you eat – webquest

http:www.thewilloss.qld.edu.au/ebquest/welcome.htm

http://globaled.ausaid.gov.au/secondary/casestud/food/1/food.html

http://www.aboutproduce.com/

This site enables menu production, gives lots of good information from Rosemary Stanton, uses local produce and I just love the site.  I don't think it gives lots of information about food production per se, but it's still worth a look.

http://www.woolworths.com.au/

Diets Guide
 
   "This site has been constructed to help you find out the basic information on the more popular diet programs and to guide you forward so that you can discuss the potential dietary programs with your doctor." It offers background information and points to additional resources on several diet programs, including Weight Watchers, and the South Beach, Zone, and Atkins diets.

  http://www.dietsguide.com/