Fourth Grade

Digestion/Nutrition

The April 2005 Updated Food Pyramid!
Great links at this site. Set up your own pyramid with your age, gender and activity level.
http://www.mypyramid.gov

Another website on  the food pyramid. Shows servings.
http://www.eat-online.net/english/education/food_pyramid.htm

Picture of Digestive System
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/site_sum.html?tname=5777&cid=2&url=5777/dig1.htm

Nutrition Site
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/nutrit.html

Brain Pop- Digestive System, Digestion, Nutrition and Cells!
http://www.brainpop.com

How the digestive system works
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/yrdd/index.htm#2

Your gross and cool body
http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000126.html

Cells Web Sites
http://www.kathimitchell.com/cells.html

Play the Immune System Game and eat the bacterial infections with 
your white blood cells, or macrophages!
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/immunity/index.html

Play the Megacell Game, learning about the cells and its organelles! It is 
a fun game 
requiring speed and technique, before the bacteria eats you alive!
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/cell/index.html

Duplicate DNA at this advanced, fast site
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/dna_double_helix/index.html

Want to really see how big a cell is to the top of a pin? Want to see the 
insides of 
viruses?  This site is full of cool cell stuff!  One of our faves.....
http://www.cellsalive.com/

Check out this site for interesting facts about all the parts of a cell
http://www.biology4kids.com/files/cell_main.html

X marks the spot!
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/7th/cells/sciber/celldiag.htm

Fruit and Vegetable Encyclopedia
http://www.dole5aday.com/ReferenceCenter/R_Home.jsp

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