Eating Disorders Prevention and Awareness Resources

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.

Wintergirls Discussion Guide 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. Looks Discussion Guide 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. Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies Discussion Questions Seventh-grader Celeste Harris was comfortable with her weight until her aunt signed her up for a plus-size beauty pageant. Use these questions for Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies to discuss body image, friendship, and expectations. Diva Reading Guide Examine relationships, attitudes about food, and what it means to be a diva through the discussion questions and extension activities in this reading guide to Diva, a novel about a teenage girl struggling to make it big as a singer. Tips to Healthy Eating Quiz Test students' on their nutrition knowledge with this true/false healthy eating habits quiz. Thought for Food: A Nutrition Lesson Learn about the science behind nutrition, and get the resources necessary to give your students an understanding of healthy eating. What Is a Balanced Diet? 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. Choosing Healthy Lifestyles 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. Health & Nutrition Printable Book (Grades 4-9) 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. Why Are Minerals Important? The questions in this nutrition printable review types of deficiency diseases. As a skill challenge, ask students to identify how the human body uses minerals to develop and to function. Why Are Vitamins Important? Review why vitamins are important to the human body with the questions and activities in this science printable. Students will match each vitamin to the deficiency disease it is most closely associated with. As a skill challenge, they will identify the vitamins supplied by foods. * 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.