Promoting Healthy Lifestyles
Gardens for Learing: Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden Chapter 4 - Promoting Healthy Living
Harvest of the Month
Provides the tools and resources to give students hands-on opportunities to explore, taste and learn about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables.
My Pyramid.gov
Includes several nutrition education tools targeted to children ages 6-11, including an interactive web game and class room materials to help children learn the MyPyramid food guidance system.
Get Growing from the Ground Up! Ideas on how to start a Team Nutrition Garden and host a Team Nutrition Festival
California Department of Education Nutrition Services Publications Download a PDF order form of the following:
- Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Photo Cards
A set of 142 beautiful, color photographs suitable for framing. The front of each fully laminated 8.5" x 9.5" card displays a color photograph of a fruit or vegetable with its name in English and Spanish. On the reverse is a bar graph displaying an analysis of nutrients, suggested serving size, and other useful information. Ideas for using the cards with students of all ages are included.
- Kids Cook Farm-Fresh Food Activity Guide
An activity guide that links academic content standards to the real world through gardens, nutrition, cooking, recycling, and the environment. Activities engage teachers and students in grades two through seven in exploring fresh, seasonal, locally grown produce through direct experience.
- Nutrition to Grow On
An innovative curriculum for grades four through six that offers teachers a direct link between the garden and nutrition education. Nine lessons are designed to teach children and their families about nutrition by relating each lesson to a garden activity. The curriculum uses the garden to integrate disciplines, including science, mathematics, language arts, history, environmental studies, nutrition and health, while reinforcing some of the California academic content standards.
Fruits and Vegetables for Health
The comprehensive unit, created by the California Foundation for Agriculuture in the Classroom, teaches students about the production, distribution, and nutritional value of California fresh produce. Geography, language arts, mathematics, science, health, and nutrition concepts are incorporated. Aligned to the Content Standards for California Public Schools.
California Healthy Kids Resource Center
The California Healthy Kids Resource Center (CHKRC) maintains a comprehensive collection of health education materials for use by teachers, administrators,university faculty, LEA staff and other professionals who work with preschool through 12th grade students in school settings and after-school programs
California Department of Health Services CPNS Skin Cance Prevention Guides for Schools
Dairy Council of California
Free and ready-to-use nutrition education programs for California teachers that meet state content standards.
Fruits & Vegetables Galore: Helping Kids Eat More
A tool from USDA for school foodservice professionals packed with tips on planning, purchasing, protecting, preparing, presenting and promoting fruits and vegetables. Use Fruits & Vegetables Galore to help rejuvenate your cafeteria with colorful fruits and vegetables.
Healthy Foods From Healthy Soils: A Hands- On Resource For Teachers Patten, Elizabeth and Lyons, Kathy. Tilbury House Publishers, 2003. Simple concepts and fun activities to show children the big picture-how quality soil is the basis of nutritious foods, and how eating a variety of wholesome foods leads to healthy bodies. The program enhances existing curricula through methods that include writing, art, scientific investigation, music, and puppetry
How to Teach Nutrition to Kids Evers, Connie Liakos. Carrot Press,1995. Promotes positive attitudes about food, fitness and body image. Features hundreds of fun, hands-on nutrition education activities aimed at children ages 6-12.
TWIGS: Teams with Intergenerational Support U.C. Cooperative Extension,
30 lessons for children, K?6, to help them connect principles of good nutrition with gardening. The materials cross age boundaries, making it easy for teens or seniors to use the materials with children. 1997. 108pp.
Producepedia.com
Get to know California's top 50 commodities and the farmers who grow them.
Cooking With Kids
Cooking with Kids engages elementary school children in hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods from diverse cultures. Students are encouraged to explore many varieties of foods using all of their senses, to have fun, and to exercise choice.
Karen Adler Books
Her children's books cover how fruits are grown, and contain fun facts taught through music incorporated in the stories.
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