Eating Disorders Prevention and Awareness Resources
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These resources will help you better discuss healthy eating habits and the relationship between eating disorders and teens. These resources can be worked into your lessons at any time during the year, but particularly during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week in February. |
Encourage critical thinking and discussion with reading comprehension questions for Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Wintergirls, a story about friendship, relationships, eating disorders, and loss. This printable also includes discussion questions for Speak. Engage students in a thoughtful discussion about physical appearance, social hierarchy, friendship, and revenge with the questions in this printable guide to Looks, a novel by Madeleine George. Test students' on their nutrition knowledge with this true/false healthy eating habits quiz. Learn about the science behind nutrition, and get the resources necessary to give your students a understanding of healthy eating. Review the components of a balanced diet with this science printable. Students will identify foods, classify each item in one of the six food groups, and answer questions about nutrition. This lab activity evaluates students' ability to demonstrate healthy choices for food and activities. Materials list, set-up instruction, worksheet, and answer key are provided. Using tools such as daily journal topics, literature guides, and science experiments, students will learn about health and wellness. This printable book contains plenty of worksheets to improve your students' understanding of how foods affect the human body. When you notice worrisome behavior in your students, you need practical suggestions and specific advice. Please take a look at the resources offered at the National Eating Disorders Association and at Something Fishy. |


