Discovered a great new site for homeschooling moms…
Nutrition for Healthy Kids is a blog dedicated to teaching our children about proper nutrition. This homeschooling momma steps out of the box and teaches young children to think critically about their food. Her lessons go way beyond the public school’s general 4 Food Groups philosophy. What’s the difference between organic and non-organic? Can you taste the difference? See the difference? She explores using the scientific theory to go through lessons on everything from basic food nutrition to grocery store plu codes and knowing what a GMO is. Each lesson comes with a downloadable worksheet for the kids to use in their science investigations. And there is lots of hands-on (with little prep work) and opportunities for field trips.
I was planning on doing a Nutrition, Health and Hygiene, and Anatomy and Physiology unit this upcoming winter anyway. A good can’t-go-outside science unit to work on. This site will tuck in neatly to what we will already be doing. Besides, flu season is the perfect opportunity for a field trip to our doctor for a seasonal shot! And our kids have all been under-the-weather this week so it will be the perfect time to start studying about germs and how nutrition can heal your body. My goal is for the kids to take an active role in their own health and understand why mommy and daddy make some of the decisions we do. I want them to decide what foods will build their immune systems and I want them to begin the process of learning the basics of cooking. We will also be spending the winter planning our spring garden so that will also tie in nicely. We will also be focusing on two very important key biblical elements…the fruit of self-control paired with the freedom we have under Christ. I will be curious to see how their knowledge plays out over the season of over-indulgence!
Here are some other resources we will be using:
- The Human Anatomy Tour
- Anatomy Arcade
- Magic School Bus – Giant Germ Lapbook pdf
- Magic School Bus – Missing Bones Lapbook pdf
- Human Body Squidoo Lapbook (and other notebook links)
- Label-Me Human Anatomy pdf Worksheets
- Pre-K Nutrition Booklet
- My Body Lapbook (Homeschool Share)
- The Human Body Copywork (only $1.50 for 3 Volumes!!!!!)
- American Dental Association’s pdf Color and Activity Sheets
- Drop of Blood 3D Model (Creekside Learning)
- Circulatory System Rap
- The Circulation Game
- Body Bingo
- The Immune System Game
- 3D Food Pyramid Craft (features 3 controversial theories)
- Traditional Food Pyramid Cut and Paste
- Brain Hemisphere Hat
- “Ectomy” Brain Game
- Junior High Study Guide Worksheets (to The Children’s Atlas of the Human Body)
- Week 1 – Germs, How the body heals, Doctors, Teeth and Dentists
- Week 2 – Nutrition, Vitamins and Minerals, Supermarket
- Week 3 – Anatomy: 5 Senses
- Week 4 – Anatomy: Cells, Bones, Muscles
- Week 5 – Anatomy: Heart, Lungs, Stomach
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I think more and more people need to start talking about the nutritional requirements of the human body with their kids. Obesity is already and epidemic in the west, we’ll soon pay the economic price as well.