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| | The following materials have been developed by States as part of a Team Nutrition Training Grant. These resources are from 2005-present; visit our Education and Training Materials Database for older materials. |
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Alaska | | - Alaska Department of Health and Social Services; 2006
This toolkit was created for schools within Alaska to create their own wellness policies. | - Alaska Department of Health and Social Services; 2007
Manual designed to provide Head Start parents, teachers, and food service staff with tools they can use to become leaders in reversing the epidemic of childhood overweight.
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| | Back to Top | Colorado | | - Colorado Team Nutrition; 2008
This program was created to help inform educators about healthy lifestyle choices so they can lead their students by example.
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| | Back to Top | Connecticut | | - Connecticut State Department of Education; 2006
This guide is intended to help schools encourage healthy lifestyles in students by promoting the development and implementation of comprehensive nutrition and physical activity policies by local boards of education. The goals of these policies are to promote school practices that consistently support student health and learning. | - Connecticut State Department of Education; 2006
This resource provides a blueprint for how students can live an active and
healthy life. | - Connecticut State Department of Education; 2005
Birthday parties and holiday celebrations at school provide a unique opportunity to help make healthful eating fun and exciting for children. This two-page handout offers suggestions for both parents and schools. | - Connecticut State Department of Education; 2005
Candy, baked goods, soda and other foods with little nutritional value are commonly used for
fundraising at school. Learn about the consequences of this practice, as well as a variety of alternative fundraising ideas in this two-page handout.
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| | Back to Top | Hawaii | | - Hawaii Team Nutrition & State of Hawaii Department of Health; 2008
Modeled after the HealthierUS School Challenge, the Healthy Hawaii School Challenge was created to recognize a school’s commitment to the health and
well-being of their students. Schools that met or exceeded the criteria were presented with a commemorative bowl, banner, and a $2,000 mini-grant to support their wellness initiatives.
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| | Back to Top | Indiana | | - Indiana Department of Education; 2009
These free nutrition lessons, developed by Indiana Team Nutrition, include lesson plans to incorporate in math, science, reading/language art, and combined curriculum classes. All lessons are appropriate for elementary schools, with the goals of promoting nutrition curriculum and education. Lessons for science and combined curriculum classes are also available for middle and high schools. Examples include English Lessons with Citrus Fruit, Floating Orange Experiment, Creating a School Garden, and ideas for field trips.
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| | Back to Top | Iowa | | - Iowa Public Television. Iowa Department of Education.
Healthy Minutes video messages were developed to promote healthy lifestyles and positive choices for youngsters in Iowa. Healthy Minutes encourages positive health choices, good nutritional practices, personal safety, good decision making, and many other important skills that promote health and wellness lessons that will stick with children as they become adults. | - Iowa Department of Public Health; 2008
Looking for quick, easy recipes along with fun facts about fruits and vegetables to use in schools or community events? The Iowa Department of Public Health provides The Color Way newsletter articles that are organized by the five major colors found in fruits and vegetables. Each article contains a recipe and emphasizes the health benefits of the color groups. Recipes in Spanish are also available. | - Iowa Department of Education; 2007
The lessons are intended to provide suggested nutrition activities in the early childhood setting, with special interest for Child Development Homes.
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| | Back to Top | Kansas | | - Kansas State Department of Education; 2005
Body Walk is an exciting tour of the human body featuring engaging, experiential education activities for students in grades K-5. | |
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| | Back to Top | Louisiana | | - Louisiana Department of Education, Division of School and Community Support, and Southeastern Louisiana University, Excellence in Health and Education Project; 2005
Looking at Nutrition through Core Content is an instructional resource for educators seeking to hold Family Nutrition Nights (FNN) for grades K-4 and 5-8. The lessons are designed to help students and their parents develop positive attitudes toward good nutritional practices, to establish lifelong healthful eating patterns, to take action for good health, and to provide accurate and current nutrition information.
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| | Back to Top | Maryland | | - Maryland Department of Education; 2006.
This toolkit provides policy recommendations,
implementation guidance, and resources on policies for physical education, nutrition
standards, nutrition education, evaluation, and other school-based activities that promote
student wellness.
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| | Back to Top | Michigan | | - Michigan Team Nutrition; 2007
The purpose of this guide is to provide education professionals with curricula to
implement nutrition education/physical activity promotion consistent with the 2005
Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the HealthierUS School Challenge criteria. | - School Nutrition Association of Michigan School Food Service Training Task Force, Michigan Department of Education; 2005
Three-hour course during which foodservice supervisory personnel learn to locate and use tools, resources, and training designed to operate a successful school meals program. | - Michigan State University Extension, Michigan Department of Education in Partnership; 2006
Contains annotation for over 250 books about food, nutrition, healthy eating and physical activity for young children.
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| | Back to Top | Mississippi | | - Mississippi Department of Education; 2005
Includes recipes, nutrient analysis of recipes and menus, and a means to customize the menus for school sites. | - Mississippi Department of Education, Mississippi University for Women; 2006
This manual includes teaching strategies, hands-on activities, resources, home to school connection activities, parent information, and formal and informal assessments to implement in the classroom.
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| | Back to Top | Montana | | - Montana Team Nutrition; 2007.
The Healthier Montana Menu Challenge is a menu-based recognition program that meets nutrition criteria for breakfast, lunch and a la carte offerings. The program recognizes schools serving healthy school meals that are consistent with the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and USDA’s MyPyramid. | - Montana Team Nutrition. Montana Office of Public Instruction; 2006
Includes 5 weeks worth of menus, recipes, and other resources, provided to assist childcare providers in serving healthy meals which are cost effective, easy to prepare, and appealing to children. | - Montana Team Nutrition Program. Office of Public Instruction School Nutrition Programs; 2006.
This publication provides examples of model school practices
regarding nutrition and physical activity from schools throughout
Montana.
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| | Back to Top | New Hampshire | | - New Hampshire Department of Education; 2005
Booklet contains experiential information about competitive mini grants that were offered to New Hampshire Schools.
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| | Back to Top | New York | | - New York State Department of Health. New York State Department of Education; 2005.
The Activ8Kids! program was launched in June 2005 to fight childhood obesity and promote healthy lifestyles among children. The toolkit is a resource to help schools improve their nutrition and physical activity environments. It is also intended to assist Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in developing local wellness policies to create a healthier school environment. School administrators, teachers, parents and community partners can also use the toolkit.
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| | Back to Top | North Dakota | | - North Dakota Department of Public Instruction; 2005
This resource gives many ideas and lesson plans for teaching children about healthy eating and ways of adding more fruits and vegetables to school meals. | - North Dakota Department of Public Instruction; 2007
This resource was developed to help schools succeed at the the HealthierUS School Challenge. | - North Dakota Department of Public Instruction; 2008
This program is a great instructional tool for teaching not only the food service staff, but any one who works with students about nutrition. | - North Dakota Department of Public Instruction; 2006.
These lessons were designed as a supplement to the North Carolina developed curriculum kit, “Color Me Healthy- Preschoolers Moving and Eating Healthy.” It was developed for use as a hands-on, stand-alone curriculum for anybody wanting to encourage preschool children to develop healthy eating and physical activity habits.
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| | Back to Top | Oregon | | - Oregon Department of Education; 2006
Set of lesson plans to be used in the family day care home setting. Many of the materials are also available in Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.
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| | Back to Top | Rhode Island | | - Kids First, Inc. Rhode Island; 2006
These coloring pages display various food safety and nutrition messages. | - Kids First, Inc. Rhode Island; 2005
This resource was created to help chefs and nutritionists educate children about healthy eating and lifestyle choices. | - Kids First, Inc. Rhode Island; 2008
This list contains over 1,400 products (beverages and snacks) that meet the nutrition criteria of Rhode Island law, which applies to all foods and beverages sold and offered to students in school cafeterias, vending machines, school stores, at fund raisers such as bake sales, and more.
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| | Back to Top | South Dakota | | - South Dakota Department of Education; 2005
Fun with Foodella is a nutrition education activity book designed for second grade students. The original 1975 version has been updated to reflect MyPyramid. | - South Dakota Team Nutrition, South Dakota Department of Education; 2007
This nutrition curriculum, intended for Family and Consumer Sciences classes for grades 7-12, is standards-based and web-enhanced. | - South Dakota Department of Education; 2007
Several topics have been identified as most frequently dealt with in working with wellness policies. In order to help explain it to administrators, boards, teachers, parents, and the community, the South Dakota Department of Education developed this series of fact sheets and rack cards. | - SD Child and Adult Nutrition Services and South Dakota State University
This resource is a collection of nutrition lessons for high school students that are easily included into other subjects being taught since there is typically not significant class time for a stand alone nutrition class.
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| Public Service Announcements Wyoming Department of Education; 2007 These two PSAs feature county star Jason Michael Carroll, who urges parents to talk to their kids about the importance of breakfast, phsyical activity, and fruits and vegetables. Each is approximately 30 seconds long. |
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