Nutrition: Education
Curricula
Choose My Plate for kids ages 6 to 11
http://www.choosemyplate.gov/children-over-five.html
Dole Super Kids
Lesson plans that integrates nutrition education with language arts, math, music, social studies, and science http://www.dolesuperkids.com/HTML/Teachers.html
Ag in the Classroom – The Farmer Grows a Rainbow
This site provides teachers with classroom-ready resources to improve nutrition education among Pre-K-5 students. http://www.agclassroom.org/rainbow/index.htm
Crunch the Numbers
A standards-base math curriculum that integrates nutrition education around fruit and vegetable consumption
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=277
Learn to be Healthy
Web-based health science education kits that meet many national education standards http://www.learntobehealthy.org/kids/
Smart Mouth
Center for Science in the Public Interest, nutrition education website for kids with games, quizzes, video clips, andarticles.http://www.cspinet.org/smartmouth/
Healthy Eating Posters for School Snack Bars (Downloadable) http://www.kidsnutrition.org/images/posters3/posters/poster_3.html
Explore the World with Fruits and Vegetables
Produce for Better Health idea book for nutrition education practitioners in school settings. www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/downloads/explore_guidebook.pdf
What's New
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Great Trays Skills for Excellence (PDF 968 KB/21 pgs) A new tool for school nutrition professionals in Minnesota that helps to inventory workforce skills and identify existing curriculums for continuing staff education.
- Health In My Hometown
MDH and thirteen communities gave cameras to youth to document what helps them or holds them back from being healthy.
