Dairy Council site Check out the nutrition tab Click on the food groups for nutrients and what they do http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/nutrition-pyramid.asp
PBS kids site More specific info http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/body/foodsmarts/article2.html
Kids Health for Kids answers nutrition and other health-related questions http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/
CNN site - good info about many nutrients http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/healthy.bodies/nutrition.html
National Institutes of Health Encyclopedia (lots of medical info) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
Games for Arianna's nutrition explorations http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/activities/arianna.asp
Blast Off Game Can you fuel up with enough servings of each food group and get enough activity to be able to Blast Off? Blast Off game
Information about food groups and the nutrients in each group Choose My Plate
Games about nutrition topics National Nutrition Month
This link may not work since I had to register and use a password. This is the EFT about raising eggs. More interesting than it sounds Farm-to-table
Written for kids, easy-to-understand summary of digestive organs Digestion summary
Kids' Health - This short movie goes over all the main parts of the digestive system. Digestive System Movie
Follows the food through the digestive system Digestive system animation
9 minute video designed more for high school, but interesting Neo K-12 digestion video
This has short but good descriptions of what the various organs do. There are ads for nutritional products on the side of the page. Description of organs
Yes, this is Johns Hopkins, a school of medicine in Baltimore. So if you're a future medical student, sit down and enjoy this website. Johns Hopkins teaches about the digestive system
Medium difficulty; has links to vocabulary words Another view of the digestive system
from kidshealth Try the Digestive System Quiz