ood! is a freely available community research guide developed by the Smithsonian …
ood! is a freely available community research guide developed by the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) in partnership with the InterAcademy Partnership as part of the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals project. These Smithsonian Science for Global Goals community research guides use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework to focus on sustainable actions that are defined and implemented by students.
Food! is a module broken up into seven parts. Each part contains a series of tasks to complete. Each task contains additional resources to support that task. We have provided a suggested order for the parts and tasks. However, the structure of the guide hopefully allows you to customize your learning experience by selecting which parts, tasks, and resources you would like to utilize and in what order you would like to complete them.
In this adaptation of a video that high school students created in …
In this adaptation of a video that high school students created in collaboration with the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, learn what's whack about our current food systems and the many actions individuals can take to address these issues.
Food and Nutrition: Personal Nutrition Unit FN 110 Personal Nutrition Description Explores …
Food and Nutrition: Personal Nutrition Unit
FN 110 Personal Nutrition
Description Explores personal food habits and beliefs. Emphasizes practical application of nutrition knowledge to enhance general health. Includes analyzing one's present diet and evaluating it according to latest nutritional guidelines. Covers basic nutrition and little or no science background is necessary to succeed.
In this lesson, students will learn that minerals are a necessary part …
In this lesson, students will learn that minerals are a necessary part of our diet. They will learn that different minerals have different functions in the body. More specifically, they will discover that iron is necessary to carry oxygen around the body. In the associated activity, students will design a process that removes the most iron from the cereal.
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden …
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden that will be their central tool. Through the growing season, they will explore nutrition content in their everyday lives and see how it relates to what they are growing.
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden …
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden that will be their central tool. Through the growing season, they will explore nutrition content in their everyday lives and see how it relates to what they are growing.
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden …
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden that will be their central tool. Through the growing season, they will explore nutrition content in their everyday lives and see how it relates to what they are growing.
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden …
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden that will be their central tool. Through the growing season, they will explore nutrition content in their everyday lives and see how it relates to what they are growing.
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden …
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden that will be their central tool. Through the growing season, they will explore nutrition content in their everyday lives and see how it relates to what they are growing.
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden …
In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden that will be their central tool. Through the growing season, they will explore nutrition content in their everyday lives and see how it relates to what they are growing.
A Standards-Based Gardening Nutrition Curriculum. Eleven-lesson curriculum for 3rd and 4th grades …
A Standards-Based Gardening Nutrition Curriculum. Eleven-lesson curriculum for 3rd and 4th grades that contains bulletin board materials, veggie dice, fruit and vegetable flash cards, and 35 copies of each of the 10 Garden Detective newsletters for parents/caregivers.
After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups …
After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups to create their own advertisements for food products.
Garden-themed nutrition education kit that introduces children to six fruits and vegetables. …
Garden-themed nutrition education kit that introduces children to six fruits and vegetables. Includes seven booklets, featuring three fruits and three vegetables, with hands-on planting activities, a CD with supplemental information, and a DVD with Cool Puppy Pup’s Picnic and Lunch Parties.
This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by …
This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:
"Our gut microbiome has far-reaching effects on our bodies - including on our brain. Gut microbes primarily communicate with the brain via metabolites that are carried in the bloodstream. However, to influence neuronal cells, these metabolites must first interact with the blood-brain barrier (BBB). While diet influencing the brain has been well documented, the impacts of specific metabolites on the BBB are not. To close this gap, researchers combined cell culture and mouse models to examine two metabolites: trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) and its precursor trimethylamine (TMA). In humans, both TMAO and TMA are generated by the microbiota from dietary fish and seafood. At physiologically relevant concentrations, TMAO enhanced the integrity of the BBB and protected it from inflammatory damage. In fact, long-term exposure to TMAO in mice protected cognitive function from inflammatory challenge. In contrast, TMA impaired BBB function and disrupted the tight junctions between endothelial cells..."
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