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Fruits and Veggies More Matters ™: Storing Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for Best Flavor handout Eng_Spn. 2016

Posted on September 16, 2016

Fruits and Veggies More Matters ™: Storing Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for Best Flavor handout.


Grow It, Try It, Like It!

Posted on August 23, 2016

Grow It, Try, Like It! is a nutrition education kit Featuring MyPlate is a garden-themed nutrition education kit for child care center staff that introduces children to: three fruits - peaches, strawberries, and cantaloupe; and three vegetables - spinach, sweet potatoes, and crookneck squash. The kit includes seven booklets featuring fruits and vegetables with fun activities through the imaginary garden at Tasty Acres Farm! It also has a CD-ROM with Supplemental Information and a DVD with Cool Puppy Pup's Picnic and Lunch Parties. Each set of lessons contains: hands-on activities, planting activities, and nutrition education activities that introduce MyPlate. Use the kit to promote learning at home with fun parent/child activities and family-sized recipes that give tips for cooking with children.

 

Audience:

Pre-School

Number of Lessons:

7 Booklets (5 lessons per booklet)

Lesson Length:

15-30 minutes

Common Core:

N/A

Language:

English

Price:

Free

Embedded Assessment:

N/A

 

 

Curriculum Implementation Guidelines

The booklets are designed to be taught in sequential order and follow a Day 1 to Day 5 Planning Chart. Booklets may be taught in any order or individually, following the lesson order within each booklet.

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Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND): Healthy Schools Raise Healthy Kids Infographic

Posted on February 25, 2016

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act establishes strong nutrition policies for child nutrition programs. Many of these policies foster healthier school environments for kids, provide a variety of nutritious foods to millions of children nationwide, and prepare them to be productive students.


Healthy Food Bank Hub: Eat Right’s the MyPlate One-Pot Meal

Posted on February 25, 2016

This handout teaches how one-pot meals make cooking easy, fun, and can be more affordable.


Clean: Wash Hands and Surfaces Often

Posted on February 25, 2016

This handout focuses on the importance of washing hands and surfaces often.


Healthy Habits for Life

Posted on February 25, 2016

This resource kit will give child care providers the tools they need to teach children about eating right and being physically active using familiar Sesame Street characters.


Healthy Classrooms, Healthy Schools

Posted on February 25, 2016

Healthy Classrooms, Healthy Schools helps teachers transform their classroom and school into environments promoting healthy eating and physical activity. This curriculum includes two sets of supplemental lessons, one for grades K-2 and one for grades 3-5. Healthy Classrooms, Healthy schools can also be ordered with companion books that have nutrition and physical activity themes tailored to individual grades, K-5.  The curriculum includes eight lessons incorporating 27 activities. FitBits is a best practice resource component that gets students up out of their seats and moving while, at the same time, reinforcing nutrition and health concepts that are aligned with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, grade level National Health Standards, and USDA MyPlate. Another accompanying resource is Health Through Literacy, which is a book set of five to six books, age-appropriate for each grade K–5. Each set includes books with nutrition or physical activity themes.

 

Audience:

K-2, 3-5

Number of Lessons:

8 (3 activities per lesson)

Lesson Length:

Varies

Common Core:

No

Language:

English

Price:

$85

Embedded Assessment:

N/A

 

Curriculum Implementation Guidelines

Unit 1 must be taught first and the last lesson to be taught must be the last Unit. The Units in-between may be taught in any order (Per the Ensuring Success sections “beginning and Ending the Program” and “Completing the Units”). At least 6 lessons must be taught (including the first and last Unit). Fit Bits and Health Through Literacy are supportive materials/ resource and not lessons in and of themselves.

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Chill: Refrigerate Promptly

Posted on February 25, 2016

This handout describes how to refrigerate food promptly and properly to reduce the risk of foodborne illness.


Let’s Move! Screen Time Log

Posted on February 25, 2016

Use this log to determine how much time you are spending in front of a screen.


Color Me Healthy

Posted on February 25, 2016

Color Me Healthy is a program developed to reach children ages four and five with fun, interactive learning opportunities on physical activity and healthy eating. It is designed to stimulate all of the senses of young children: touch, smell, sight, sound, and, of course, taste. Through the use of color, music, and exploration of the senses, Color Me Healthy teaches children that healthy food and physical activity are fun.

 

Audience:

Pre-School (Ages 4-5 years old)

Number of Lessons:

12 (circle time)

Lesson Length:

N/A

Common Core:

No

Language:

English (Spanish Add-Ons)

Price:

$88

Embedded Assessment:

N/A

 

Curriculum Implementation Guidelines

Lessons can be taught as stand-alone lessons. Color Me Healthy is designed to be used in family daycare homes, Head Start classrooms, and childcare centers serving 4 and 5 year olds.

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Cook: Cook to Proper Temperatures

Posted on February 25, 2016

This handout highlights the proper cooking temperatures for food.


Meeting Your MyPlate Goals On A Budget (Pages 1 to 14)

Posted on February 25, 2016

Use the tips in this guide to fill your plate with healthy foods without breaking the bank.


Cooking Matters for Chefs and Kids

Posted on February 25, 2016

Cooking Matters for Chefs and Kids is an easy-to-use guide that helps chefs, nutrition educators, and food service professionals provide hands-on instruction that will help kids develop a love of cooking and the skills to make healthy food choices wherever they go. Within the guide you will find a variety of resources to help you engage kids, including tips and advice for planning fun activities, materials lists and activity instructions, appealing and interactive recipes for kids, and fun handouts that supplement the lessons of each activity.

Audience:

Adults and Kids

Number of Lessons:

11

Lesson Length:

30 minutes

Common Core:

No

Language:

English

Price:

Free

Embedded Assessment:

Optional

Curriculum Implementation Guidelines

Lessons can be taught as stand-alone lessons and can be implemented by anyone with culinary training in any community.

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Cook: Keep Your Family Safe from Food Poisoning

Posted on February 25, 2016

This handout reports the safe minimum internal temperatures for cooking food.


Parents Tips! Getting Kids in the Kitchen

Posted on February 25, 2016


Discover MyPlate

Posted on February 25, 2016

Discover MyPlate is fun and inquiry-based nutrition education that fosters the development of healthy food choices and physically active lifestyles for children. Kindergarten teachers can meet education standards for Math, Science, English Language Arts, and Health using the 6 ready-to-go and interactive lessons. Children become food-smart as they practice counting, reading, writing, and more.

 

Audience:

Kindergarten

Number of Lessons:

6

Lesson Length:

Varies

Common Core:

Yes

Language:

English

Price:

Free

Embedded Assessment:

Required

 

Curriculum Implementation Guidelines

Lessons are part of a series (not stand-alone lessons). Intended to be taught in 6 weeks or it can be taught over a course several months. Lesson may be extended based on supplemental activities from this curriculum.

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Cooking 101 Handout Series: Basic Cooking Terms

Posted on February 25, 2016

This handout series provides basic cooking information to use with families.


Separate: Don’t Cross Contaminate

Posted on February 25, 2016


Eat Smart, Live Strong

Posted on February 25, 2016

Eat Smart, Live Strong is an intervention designed to improve fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity among 60-74 year olds participating in or eligible for FNS nutrition assistance programs. The intervention can support the efforts of program providers and communities in delivering nutrition education to low-income older adults. Each session in Eat Smart, Live Strong focuses on changing behavior by guiding participants in learning and practicing new skills.

 

Audience:

Seniors (60-74 years old)

Number of Lessons:

4

Lesson Length:

45 minutes

Common Core:

N/A

Language:

English (Spanish Handouts)

Price:

Free

Embedded Assessment:

Required

 

Curriculum Implementation Guidelines

Curriculum can be taught as a series or as stand-alone lessons.

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Cooking 101 Handout Series: Basic Cooking Supplies and Foods

Posted on February 25, 2016

This handout series provides basic cooking information to use with families.

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Jennie Altman

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