365 Foods Kids Love To Eat (1995)
Sheila Ellison and Judith Gray
Includes 365 recipes for snacks, fruits, salads, soups, breakfasts, and foods for your baby. Also contains sections focusing on do-it-yourself ideas for kids, foreign dishes, lunch box ideas, holidays, and children’s parties.
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A Kid's Cookbook: Educational and Edible Delights (1993)
Carol Kurzweg
This cookbook includes more than 50 nutritious, delicious, easy-to-follow recipes for all occasions and tastes. Each recipe is an educational as well as edible delight with interesting notes and fun-to-do activities in science, literature, geography, music, and art. A special pull-out nutrition poster for the refrigerator allows kids to record what they eat during the day and provides a handy guide to standard measurements.
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Alexander and the Great Food Fight (2002)
Linda J. Hawkins
In Alexander and the Great Food Fight, Alexander's afternoon snacking choice becomes a heated argument between some feisty fruit about which is the best for Alexander's young, growing body. Chidren will love the many folorful characters.
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An Apple a Day! Over 20 Apple Projects for Kids (1993)
Jennifer Storey Gillis
In this book you will find how to print with apples, juggle with apples, bake an apple pizza, make apple-head clowns, bob for apples, create apple wreaths, learn fun facts about apples, make apple butter and applesauce, grow apple mint, solve apple puzzles, make applesauce brownies, and more.
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Are Your Kids Snackin' & Packin' on the Pounds?
Pennsylvania Department of Health
This rack card explains how easy it is to keep a healthy weight. Shows how a few lifestyle changes, such as following a healthy balanced diet and including physical activity can make the difference. Includes website for dietary information as well as a phone number for further information.
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Banana - What's for Lunch (1998)
Pam Robson
Part of a first science series that tells the story of different types of food. Using clear text and striking photographs, this series traces the journey that different foods make from their origins to the table.
Children's Book
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Beginning Health & Nutrition Curriculum & Resource Kit (Grades K-2) (1998)
World Class Learning Materials
This curriculum is actually a set of learning activities including detailed lesson plans and reproducible art focusing on nutrition and health. Designed for small groups of children (4 - 8 )K - 2nd grade but can be adapted for larger groups. Each activity includes an objective, list of materials, description and extension activities. Most activities take 15 - 20 min. Addresses the Food Pyramid, Food Preparation, Meal Planning, Personal Cleanliness, Exercise & Rest, and Preventing Illness.
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Being Active at Child Care (From the Active Me, Healthy Me Series 2 of 3) (2002)
United Learning
2 of 3 in the Active Me, Healthy Me Series. Includes one videocassette and one facilitator's guide. 15 minutes long. This program emphasizes to childcare providers the enoumous impact that physical activity plays in the prevention of childhood obesity and its subsequent long-term health risks. It focuses on the benefits of physical activity for all ages from birth through pre-school. The importance of establishing good habits now, at an early age, are discussed.
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Bill Nye the Science Guy: Nutrition/Populations (1996)
Disney Educational Productions
The video indicates nutrition diary, and multiplicity. This Disney Video also shows more interesting stuff to do.
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Bite-Sized Science: Activities for Children in 15 Minutes or Less (1999)
John H. Falk & Kristi S. Rosenberg
Busy parents can enrich dinnertime, bath time, bedtime, and more with Tangy Tongue, Making Waves, What's on the Wall, and dozens more activities that encourage children to make predictions, test them, and evaluate the results - the scientific method. All require only a few household materials, and most take 15 minutes or less to organize, do, and clean up.
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Blueberries for Sal (1976)
Robert McCloskey
Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk go the blueberries into the pail of a little girl named Sal who--try as she might--just can't seem to pick as fast as she eats. A magical tale of the irrepressible curiosity--not to mention appetite--of youth. Sal and her mother set off in search of blueberries for the winter at the same time as a mother bear and her cub. A quiet comedy of errors ensues when the young ones wander off and absentmindedly trail the wrong mothers.
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Bread and Jam for Frances (1993)
Russell Hoban
Frances is a badger and a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlet. Unless Mother Badger can come up with a plan, Frances just might go on eating bread and jam forever! (Utilized in the In The Bag curriculum)
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Bread Around the World: A Complete Thematic Unit (1995)
JoEllen Moore
This cross-curricular, thematic unit on bread contains social science, health, and science information for both teachers and students. This unit also contains activities designed to help students explore their creativity and to think critically. In addition you will find: bulletin board ideas, center set-up, bibliography, and patterns and forms.
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Bread, Bread, Bread (1989)
Ann Morris
Bread is a food enjoyed by people in all parts of the world. Its many shapes, sizes, textures, and colors are as varied as the people who eat it. This photographic round-the-world tour provides a glimpse into the rich variety of world cultures, as well as an informative look at an important food that everyone agrees is as necessary as water and air. Utilized in the Thematic Unit - Food & Nutrition curriculum.
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Bright Futures Activity Book (2000)
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
Provides parents with the opportunity to teach their children about health and safety, nutrition, physical activity, self-expression, and oral health.
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Bright Futures in practice - Nutrition: User's Guide (2000)
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
This user's guide was designed to provide an overview of Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition and to assist health professionals in using the information and materials in that guide. See Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition for details.
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Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition (2000)
Mary Story, Katrina Holt, and Denise Sofka
Emphasizes prevention and early recognition of nutritional concerns. Provides developmental guidelines from the prenatal period through adolescence.
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Brown Bag Success - Making Healthy Lunches Your Kids Won’t Trade (1997)
Sandra Nissenberg and Barbara Pearl
Designed for parents of school-aged children who want to get the most out of their children’s lunch-box meals. A nutrition analysis of recipes is included.
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Celebrate Healthy Eating (2001)
Dannon Institute / Penn State University
Designed for child care professionals who care for pre-school aged children. Includes teacher guide, poster, parent newsletter, classroom activity ideas, and reproducible story/coloring book.
Booklet, Curriculum Design
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Chef Combo’s Fantastic Adventures in Tasting and Nutrition
National Dairy Council
Designed for 4 and 5 year-old students. It helps them learn about nutrition and to taste nutritious foods. It includes 23 nutrition activities and 23 tasting activities.
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Child Care Recipes: Food for Health and Fun (1999)
USDA Team Nutrition
Child Care Recipes: Food for Health and Fun is a collection of 141 new recipes. Many also provide directions for one or more variations, so you'll find more than 180 recipes in all! Written for 25 and 50 servings, the recipes can easily be adjusted to serve larger or smaller groups. All of the recipes have been tested and approved by child care centers in all regions of the country.
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Child Obesity (Video) (2000)
National Health Video
This 15 min. video addresses child obesity. Designed for use with parents and children 5th grade and older. It stresses the importance of physical activity in weight maintenance for children, role modeling and the nutritional needs of children in general. Packet includes video, activity suggestions, before & after quiz with answer sheet as well as reproducible learning objectives and goals.
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Child of Mine - Feeding with Love and Good Sense - 2nd Edition (2000)
Ellyn Satter
Shows parents what healthy and normal eating is all about and helps them heal from their own eating and growing-up history. The second edition covers nutrition and food selection, feeding dynamics, and child physical, emotional, and social development.
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Childhood Obesity: Breaking the Cycle
United Leaning
An educator's is designed to help educators meet the needs of a variety of audiences, including very young children, high school students, and parents. It includes 1 leader's guide, 3 balls, 2 pamphlets, 1 poster, 3 participant materials folders (folder 1: parent and family education; folder 2: early childhood - 4th grade; folder 3: 5th-12th grade), and 3 educational videos (childhood obesity: Lily faces a problem, Clap your hands, and Daily food choices for healthy living).
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Childhood Obesity: Prevention and Treatment (2000)
Jana Parizkova, Andrew Hills
Provides a comprehensive characterization of the obese child and adolescent before and after treatment. Reviews a variety of treatment modalities, including suitable diet and exercise and pharmacological and surgical approaches. Covers the main principles and results of studies following treatment using a variety of approaches. 480 pages.
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Children & Weight: What Professionals Can Do, Children and Weight Project Workgroup (2000)
Children & Weight Project Workgroup / University of California Cooperative Extension
Multimedia kit for clinicians, nurses, social workers and other health care professionals who work with children. Includes five unit lessons, video, flip chart (English/Spanish), pamphlets, review of research on pediatric obesity, evaluation tool and resource list.
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Children and Weight: What's A Parent to Do? - Spanish version (1998)
Joanne Ikeda & Rita Mitchell
This booklet is written in spanish. It is designed for parents to help guide their children towards healthy eating as well as proper food habits. Low reading level, set up in a do and don't style with large pictures. It discourages limiting the amount of food the child wishes to eat and low calorie diets for children. Also emphasized is the importance of physical activity.
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Chocolate - What's for Lunch (1998)
Claire Llewellyn
Part of a first science series that tells the story of different types of food. Using clear text and striking photographs, this series traces the journey that different foods make from their origins to the table.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (1978)
Judi Barrett
Grab your plates! In the land of Chewandswallow, meals - rather than rain or snow - fall from the sky. But something goes awry: the food falling from the sky gets larger and larger, causing the residents to make an escape before being squashed by giant pancakes or rolls.
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Cooking Art: Easy Edible Art for Young Children (1997)
MaryAnn F. Kohl, Jean Potter
With Cooking Art, children will create edible masterpieces including beverages, salads, sandwiches, entrees, and desserts to friends and family. Child-readable icons make choosing recipes and following steps easy. Check the number of spoons for ability level and the clock for preparation time.
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Cooking Up Fun! - A Pyramid of Snacks (1998)
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Watch children demonstrate step by step preparation of the following healthy snacks: rainbow fruit salad, pyramid kabobs and yogurt fruit pops. Also includes a section on kitchen rules and safety.
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Cooking Up The Pyramid: An Early Childhood Nutrition Curriculum (1993)
Katherine M. Brieger, MA, RD, CDE
Designed for teachers of preschool and early elementary age children (3 - 8 years). Specifically considers the needs of children from migrant farmworker families and other children in poverty. Overall, curriculum addresses obesity, growth retardation, hunger, iron deficiency anemia and dental disease. Background information, objectives, activities, recipes, material needed, handouts and bi-lingual parent newsletter (10 total) is provided for each unit.
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Cooking Up World History - Multicultural Recipes and Resources (1994)
Patricia Marden & Suzanne Barchers
This book contains more than 140 recipes from 22 countries. Combines dozens of research questions to connect culture and food to history. An annotated list of reading resources and media; safety tips for cooking, and a glossary of cooking terms. Features Africa, Australia, Canada, China, Commonwealth of Independent States, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Middle East, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Scotland, South America, Southeast Asia, Spain.
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Cooking with Kids - A Nutrition, Foods, and Mealtime Program for Grades Pre K - 6 (1997)
Nutrition Education Services / Oregon Dairy Council
Cooking with Kids is part of a national campaign entitled "Resetting the American Table: Creating a New Alliance of Taste and Health". It is designed to help elementary age children experience the positive social, psychological, and nutritional values of eating together with family and friends. The curriculum includes instructions and guidelines for setting up a cooking class/event for children and their parents. Recipes, handouts, equipment lists, parent letters, mealtime guides.
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Cooking Wizardry for Kids (1990)
Margaret Kenda and Phyllis S. Williams
Approximately 200 recipes for tasty, nutritious snacks and meals are devised so that kids can make them for themselves. There are also projects that teach fundamentals of food-related chemistry, nutrition, and making window gardens. Ages 8-12.
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Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians (1976)
Aliki
Popcorn, corn on the cob, cornbread, taco, tamales, and tortillas. All of these and many other good things come from one amazing plant. Native American farmers thousands of years ago found and nourished a wild grass plant and made it an important part of their lives. They learned the best ways to grown and store and use its fat yellow kernels. And then they shared this knowledge with the new settlers of America. For ages 5-9.
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Cow (1998)
Jules Older
Full color paperback book about Cows. Provides lots of cool facts about cows and great cow pictures. Utilized in the Food, Fun and Reading Curriculum available from the NIRC, Lesson 3.
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Crazy About Corn (1999)
New Mexico State University cooperative Extension Service / Leading Object
This package playfully teaches children ages 5 - 8 about corn in early American history, the impact it has had on our culture, and the nutritional and economic value of corn in our modern society. Includes CD/ROM, Activity book, Video, Audio Tape & songbook and Teachers Resource Book. Items can be used together or separately. CD-Rom requires: Windows 95 or 98 and a 486 processor OR Apple Macintosh with a 33MHz, 68040 processor or Power Mac running System 7.1 or higher.
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Crib to Kindergarten - Curriculum for Parents of Infants and Young Children (2003)
Katherine L. Cason, Ph.D., R.D.
This notebook provides information for parents of infants and young Children. It includes six lesson plans: partners for healthy eating; feeding children through their ages and stages (from newborn to toddlers); say "yes" to family meals; keep on snacking; brighten up with breakfast; and healthy moves. It also includes additional resources, parents and children sharing food tasks (videotape), and Bread and Jam for Frances (children's book). A CD-ROM with all the information is also included.
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D.W. the Picky Eater (1995)
Marc Brown
For ages 3-7, this picture book is about Arthur the aardvark's little sister, D. W. who is a fussy eater. She says she will never eat anything with eyes, vegetables, liver, or especially spinach! When her family goes to a restaurant she tries a new food that she loves and begins to realize what she had been missing.
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Digging for Data: Sixth Grade Science Video Kit (1990)
National Cattlemen's Beef Association
Intended for use in a sixth grade science class as a unit on nutrition or as an introduction to the scientific method. Students will become familiar with careers in archeology, animal science, and food technology. Curriculum includes VHS video cassette, black-line masters, reference sheets, teacher's guide, post-test based on video, and an evaluation form.
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Dinner from Dirt: Ten Meals Kids Can Grow & Cook (1998)
Emily Scott & Catherine Duffy
You might think you get dinner from a grocery store or a restaurant or a container in the refrigerator. But many of your meals come from dirt - grown from the same soil you trek through every day. This book shows you how to grow and cook delicious meals from ten all-time favorite kid gardens. Whether your veggie garden is a plot in a backyard or a pot on a balcony, soon you'll be putting your own meals on the table, from start to finish.
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Dinosaurs Alive and Well - A Guide to Good Health (1990)
Little, Brown and Company
A unique guide that gives young children a head start on establishing healthy habits that will last a lifetime.
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Eat Smart School Nutrition Program Guide - A guide for food service directors, managers, and cooks in elementary school (1998)
University of California, San Diego and Griffin Publishing Group, Inc.
This program is the name of the school food service component that was tested in the Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH). This program can be implemented in school cafeterias as well as central kitchen food service operations. By participating in this program, you will be directly involved in reducing the amount of fat and sodium in school meals. Eat Smart involves menu planning, food purchasing, food preparation, and marketing.
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Eating on the Run (1992)
Evelyn Tribole
This book is designed to help readers make healthy food choices while managing busy and hectic lives. It discusses eating on the run for weight loss and disease prevention, vitamins, feeding kids on the run, and athletes too.
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Eating the Alphabet (1993)
Lois Ehlert
A full color illustration of fruits and vegetables beginning with the letter A and ending with Z. Coordinates with the Food, Fun, and Reading curriculum available through the NIRC, Lesson 2.
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Everybody Bakes Bread (1996)
Norah Dooley
The author evokes the warmth of a friendly, international neighborhood and includes recipes for each of the seven types of breads the families bake. The book is full of full color, cozy pictures that capture the faces found in the multiethnic neighborhood. Somehow a rainy Saturday becomes special thanks to an errand and many different types of breads.
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Exercise Your Options: A Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity Education Program (1998)
Dairy Council of California
Exercise Your Options teaches middle school students to make decisions that influence their health by analyzing their own food and activity choices. The program consists of 7 lessons, each approximately 40 minutes in length. Includes teacher guide, Food Guide Pyramid poster, transparencies, and student workbooks.
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Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) English Handouts (1994)
University of Wisconsin, Michigan State University, Washington State University and Purdue University by Barbara Willenberg, Karla Hughes, Sharon Gann and Karen Elliott
Black and White, copy ready, English handouts designed for use with the curriculum entitles "EFNEP Lessons". Curriculum designed for use by nutrition educators with low income resource stressed audiences. See EFNEP Lessons available from the NIRC for further description of curriculum.
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Exploring Our Food Heritage 4H Foods Curriculum (Leader & Member Guide) (1999)
University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service
This 4-H Foods Curriculum differs from traditional foods projects in that the topics are related to historical and cultural aspects of food as well as food preparation and nutrition. In a school setting, it may be used as an interdisciplinary unit addressing, the areas of history, multicultural education, health, and language arts. Designed for youth ages 9 and older. Leader and Member Guide.
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Exploring the Food Pyramid with Professor Popcorn (2002)
Purdue Extension
Professor Popcorn is divided into six lessons for elementary children, each focusing on how to use the Food Guide Pyramid to make smart food choices. Each lesson is 30 to 60 minutes in length involving instruction, demonstration, and hands-on activity. The entire program is presented in six weeks.
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Exploring the Food Pyramid with Professor Popcorn and Hooked on Health (1996)
Sue A. Frischie, Karen L. Konzelmann
This notebook contains all three curriculum levels. Level One (Grade 1-3) and Level Two (Grade 4-6) are both called Exploring the Food Pyramid with Professor Popcorn. Level Three (Grades 7-9) is entitled Hooked on Health. This curriculum consists of 21 lessons. There are seven lessons for each level. Lesson One introduces the Food Guide Pyramid, Lessons 2-6 each focus on a different food group, and Lesson 7 centers on the Tip of the Food Guide Pyramid.
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Feeding with Love & Good Sense (1997)
Ellyn Satter
Four videos, with teacher's guides, that use nutrition and feeding as a vehicle to teach parenting. The videos cover infants, older babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.
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Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health - Birth through Age Six (1999)
Susan Roberts
Introduces research into “metabolic programming” and makes it accessible and practical for every busy parent. This book explains how the foods you choose can optimize your baby’s future development, IQ, bone strength, and immunity.
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FIT Kids! The Complete Shape-Up Program from Birth through High School (1999)
Kenneth Cooper
Contains training instructions, meal plans, and helpful, easy-to-read reference charts. The author offers a total program of diet and exercise customized for every age from preschoolers to teenagers.
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Food & Nutrition for Every Kid (1999)
Janice VanCleave
Contains fun, safe, and easy to do experiments for kids ages 8 to 12 all about food and nutrition.
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Food Choices (1998)
E2: ENVIRONMENT & EDUCATION
You will investigate the effects of food production, diet, and nutrition on human health and the environment. You will analyze your school's food service program and identify healthy choices and practices.
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Food Goupie Starter Kit (1991)
Food Groupie Inc.
The Food Groupie Starter Kit effectively encourages children to eat a variety of foods from the five USDA approved food groups (Grain, Fruit, Vegetable, Milk, and Meat). The materials in this kit include three five-minute videotapes entitled "The Food Groupie Adventures", the storybook entitled "What's A Food Goupie?", and a teacher's guide.
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Food Pyramid Pursuit, Jr. - Game (2000)
Learning Zone Express
"Board" Game designed for use with 4 - 6 children ages 2 - 11 years old. Game board is a full color laminated sheet. Children answer age appropriate questions about their diet and the Food Guide Pyramid. They race to be the first one to build the Food Guide Pyramid by marking the "servings" in each food group. Children learn to think about their diet and are introduced to the Food Guide Pyramid and the recommended servings of each food group.
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For the Health of It: Nutrition for Children (1989)
University of Georgia
Discusses the basic nutritional needs of children and hazardous foods to avoid. Also discusses children’s eating behaviors, appropriate serving sizes and feeding strategies for parents.
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Get In Shape, Jonas! (1999)
Wolfgang D. Hoelscher
When Jonas discovers that he can't lift his bucket of special dirt, Wimzie and the gang convince him that it's time for him to get out and exercise. It sounds great to Jonas until he realizes how hard it is to get in shape. Lucky for him, he has Wimzie and the gang to help him understand how fun being fit can really be.
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Getting Into A Food Mood - Communicating Food Issues (1996)
National 4-H Council
Getting Into A Food Mood: Communicating Food Issues is a leaders guide to help teach children and youth about where our food comes from, how we view it, and how we are assuring that future populations will be fed. It is intended to be used with participants ages 8 - 15 (grades 3 - 10) in a classroom or non-formal learning situation, such as a 4-H club meeting.
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Go - Glow - Grow Foods For You (1996)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
A full-color illustration focusing on the Food Guide Pyramid. It invites children to have fun while learning about healthy foods. It includes activity pages for the children to color.
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Gregory, the Terrible Eater (1980)
Mitchell Sharmat
Gregory the goat is a terrible eater. He learns how to eat everything in moderation in a humerous "goat" way. Utilized in the Thematic Unit - Food & Nutrition curriculum.
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Growing Vegetable Soup (1987)
Lois Ehlert
A Father and a child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup. Brightly colored illustration of garden tools and vegetables. Utilized in the Thematic Unit - Food & Nutrition curriculum.
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Handbook of Child Nutrition (1998)
L.S. Taitz and B. Wardley
A short, practical guide for health professionals who have no special knowledge of nutrition but who have to deal with nutritional and dietary problems and questions in children during their general work.
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Handbook of Pediatric Nutrition (1999)
Patricia Queen Samour, Kathy King Helm, and Carol Lang
Reflects the state of the art in scientific knowledge regarding pediatric nutrition. It contains 26 chapters covering a wide range of topics, including nutrition counseling, botanicals, cancer, and AIDS.
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Harold and His Amazing Green Plants (1984)
Disney Educational Productions
In this animated program, Harold's pet is a seed. He's not terribly excited about that, until three vegetable friends explain the amazing feats which his seed can accomplish. From inside his pet seed, Harold watches with "growing" interest, its developement of roots to its remarkable photosynthesis. He learns, too, how seeds are dispersed and where plants fit into the food chain.
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Healthy Eating For 2 - 5 Year Old Children (2000)
Cynthia Reeves Tuttle / University of Maryland Cooperative Extension
Designed for parents, child care providers, and early-childhood teachers to help young children form healthy eating habits. Addresses building healthy habits, Healthy Food Choices, Children's Exercise Needs and Food Safety.
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Healthy Food for Healthy Kids (1999)
Bridget Swinney
A practical and tasty guide to your child’s nutrition. Includes menus and recipes. For use by parents and caregivers of children of all ages.
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Healthy Habits for Healthy Kids - A Nutrition and Activity Guide for Parents (2003)
American Dietetic Association
This is a nutrition and activity guide for parents who are concerned about their child's weight. Healthy eating and physical activity don't become habits overnight. This guide tells you where to start and what you can do at home to help your child. It talks about the importance role of family, realistic goals, nutrition and physical activity. The recommendations in this guide are targeted toward healthy weight for children ages 4-12.
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Healthy School Meals ... Healthy Kids! A Leadership Guide for School Decision-Makers. (1997)
USDA Team Nutrition
This leadership guide provides information to school decision-makers on using materials and resources developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and describes Team Nutrition, an implementation plan to support schools in implementing the new policy, provide state-of-the-art nutrition education to children and families, and training and technical assistance for food service personnel.
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Healthy School Meals Training
USDA Team Nutrition
A trainer’s guide of approximately 200 pages; also includes 180 slides and reproducible transparencies. Developed to assist state agencies and school districts in implementing the School Meals Initiative for Healthy Children.
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Healthy Snacks for Kids (1996)
Penny Warner
This book is a collection recipes that are high in nutrition, easy to prepare, inexpensive, low in or free of sugar and salt and loved by kids.
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Healthy Treats & Super Snacks for Kids (1994)
Penny Warner
A recipe collection. Also includes tips on getting kids to eat, tips on reducing levels of fat, salt, and sugar in kids' diets, and games to play at the table for mealtime fun. For use by parents and caregivers of children of all ages.
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Helping Your Overweight Child (1997)
Weight-control Information Network, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
This booklet is written for parents to help their overweight children. Explains why children become overweight, how to tell if your child is overweight, and how you can help your child by being supportive and focusing on the family.
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Honey - What's for Lunch (1998)
Pam Robson
Part of a first science series that tells the story of different types of food. Using clear text and striking photographs, this series traces the journey that different foods make from their origins to the table.
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How To Get Your Kid to Eat...But Not Too Much - From Birth to Adolescence (1997)
Ellyn Satter
About real life feeding situations, the things that go wrong, and what it takes to fix them. And the things that go right. And how they got that way.
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How To Teach Nutrition to Kids - an integrated, creative approach to Nutrition Education for children ages 6 - 10 (1999)
Connie Liakos Evers, MS, RD
Book is designed to give educators, nutrition professionals, parents, and other caregivers the tools they need to teach 6 - 10 year-old children about nutrition in a meaningful and integrated way. Twelve chapters full of ideas and activities covering a variety of disciplines such as language arts, math etc. Necessary material and supplies are identified. Accompanying Leader/Activity Guide available but not necessary from the NIRC.
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I Have A Wierd Brother Who Digested A Fly (1999)
Joan Holub
Designed for use with children. Illustrations and a humerous rhyme describe what happens when a boy swallows a fly. Presents factual information about the digestive system. Presents interesting digestion and anatomical facts at the end of the book. Full color. Hard Back.
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I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (2000)
Lauren Child
Lola is a very fussy eater. She won't eat peas or carrots or potatoes or mushrooms or spaghetti...and she will never NOT EVER eat a tomato. Or will she?
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If You Give A Moose A Muffin (1991)
Laura Joffe Numeroff
A young host is run ragged by a surprise guest (a moose). Young readers will delight in the comic complications that follow when a little boy entertains a gregarious moose. Utilized in the Food, Fun and Reading curriculum available from the NIRC for Lesson 1.
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In the Bag - Families Sharing Science Together (1995)
Tracy J. Farrell & Patricia F. Thonney / Cornell Cooperative Extension
Program was designed for children ages 5 - 8 and their families to learn about food and nutrition through science and reading. Take-home bags encourage family members to read children's books with food-related themes, then do simple science experiments and other activities together. Book titles: Bread & Jam for Frances; My Little Island; In the Diner; Cherries and Cherry Pits; Rabbit Seeds or This Years Garden and The Popcorn Book. Books are also available from NIRC.
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Incredible Edible Science (1994)
Tina L. Seelig
This book introduces you to some of the amazing things that happen when you cook. You'll discover how chemistry and physics make your food what it is, while you prepare your taste buds for a treat.
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It's Time to Learn About Diabetes (1991)
Jean Betschart, MN, RN, CDE
This is a level I book, intended for use by the newly diagnosed child with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. It is targeted for children ages 8 to 10 years, or second through fourth grade who are performing at grade level without learning disabilities for developmental delay. It provides children information on how people got diabetes; what happends when people get diabetes; how to take care of diabetes; etc.
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Kids Around the World Cook! The Best Foods and Recipes from Many Lands (2000)
Arlette N. Braman
This book is a fabulous blend of fascinating facts and delicious recipes. It presents information on and recipes for a variety of foods from many countries, including Sweet Lassis from India, Challah from Israel, Strawberry Soup from Poland, Kushiyaki from Japan, and Prairie Berry Cake from Canada.
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Kids Count Data Book 2001 - State Profiles of Child Well-Being (2001)
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The raw numbers contained in the 12th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book paint a statistical portrait of the condition of America's children. Using 10 indicators, this resource profiles individual states and the District of Columbia, graphs state indicators over time, ranks states by indicators and includes color coded maps. This information is also available on line at www.kidscount.org.
Book
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Look Who's Cooking: How food preparation can help children learn and develop (1997)
Georgia Department of Education, Nutrition Education and Training unit
This 30-minute video demonstrates food preparation activities for young children. It is aimed at parents of kindergarten through third-grade children, but it can also be used by teachers. The video presents three scenarios that show how to take advantage of many different learning opportunities as food is being prepared.
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Lunch (1992)
Denise Fleming
Fleming's feisty mouse peeks out of a hole in the wall and spies a table laden with goodies - a smorgasbord of fruits and vegetables in bold colors. With each turn of the page, the hungry mouse samples one colorful food after another.
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Manuel y las hortalizas (2000)
Vilma Hernandez Vias
This is a children's book about vegetables in spanich.
Children's Book
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Market! (1996)
Ted Lewin
Travel around the world to markets! People come to buy and sell. Wool from the llamas of Ecuador; Gypsy horses in Ireland's County Galway; shark and tuna at New York's Fish Market. For ages 3-8.
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Meals Without Squeals (1991)
Christine Berman, MPH, RD & Jacki Romer
This book is packed full of information and advice on preparing food and feeding children. There are seven chapters in this book: 1. What you should know about feeding children 2. Feeding and growth 3. Planning how and what to feed children 4. The recipes 5. Sample menus using our recipes 6. Running a ship-shape kitchen 7. Envrionmental concerns
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Mealtime (2000)
Oregon Dairy Council
Make mealtime one of your top priorities. Kids who eat with others are healthier, have better communication skills and do better in school. This resource includes a step-by-step plan of action for making meals a priority, plus four quick recipes.
Brochure
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Mike Robe Gets a Jump on Germs (1998)
Washing State University Cooperative Extension
This unit is divided into six sessions, each made up of one or more activities. Within each session the activities follow a format that has been designed to assist teen leaders plan and deliver the activities, related discussions, and applications to the community. Includes a 12-minute video.
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Milk - What's for Lunch (1998)
Claire Llewellyn
Part of a first science series that tells the story of different types of food. Using clear text and striking photographs, this series traces the journey that different foods make from their origins to the table.
Children's Book
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Milk: From Cow to Carton (1992)
Aliki
A fun-filled tour of factual and lively text about cows, milking, and milk processing. For ages 4-8.
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More Tricks for Treats - Level 2 (Leader's Guide) (1996)
Sheila Ashbrook
This project emphasizes food preparation skills, nutrition, food safety, and food buying. It is intended for members aged 10 to 11 who have already done the Tricks for Treats (Level 1) project. Or it could be used by members who already have some cooking experience. The leader's guide has many ideas for additional activities. This leader's guide provides more background information for each section of the member's guide, as well as other suggestions for group activities.
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More Tricks for Treats - Level 2 (Member's Guide) (1996)
Sheila Ashbrook
You will review some basic tricks like how to read a recipe and how to measure ingredients in one section of the project. You will start by learning how treats can be good for you and how to make sure they are safe to eat. Later in the project, you will plan a breakfast and think about advertising and food buying. Also in this project, you will be learning about basic cooking skills, nutrition, and food safety.
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Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash (2000)
Sarah Weeks, pictures by Nadine Bernard Westcott
Mrs. McNosh planted a squash on the first day of spring and it doesn't stop growing...until she picks it. Now what is Mrs. McNosh to do? Silly, outrageous, fun. For ages 3-6.
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My Little island (1984)
Frane Lessac
Designed for children ages 4 - 8. A young boy goes with his friend to visit the little Caribbean island where he was born. The book uses bright fiery colors and hundreds of details to portray life on a Caribbean island. (Utilized in the In The Bag curriculum).
Children's Book
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NASCO Food Models - Ages 1-3
NASCO
A food model designed for children ages 1-3. For use with groups or in individual counseling.
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NASCO Food Models - Ages 4-10
NASCO
A food model designed for children ages 4-10. For use with groups or in individual counseling.
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Nibbles for Health: Nutrition Newsletters for Parents of Young Children (Leader Guide) (2002)
USDA Food and Nutrition Service
The newsletters and sharing sessions are intended for parents of preschool-aged children who participate in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), which provides meals and snacks in childcare and adult daycare facilities. However, these nutrition education meterials can be used in other settings, such as the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program, to help parents and other caregivers promote healthful eating and active living to young children.
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Nifty Nutrition with Skill Integration Activities - 1st Grade
Arkansas Department of Education
Allows teachers to use food and nutrition information to teach basic skills, applications of knowledge, and critical thinking. Lesson includes a presentation of nutrition material by the teacher and a hands-on food experience for students.
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Nifty Nutrition with Skill Integration Activities - 2nd Grade
Arkansas Department of Education
Allows teachers to use food and nutrition information to teach basic skills, applications of knowledge, and critical thinking. Lesson includes a presentation of nutrition material by the teacher and a hands-on food experience for students.
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Nifty Nutrition with Skill Integration Activities - 3rd Grade
Arkansas Department of Education
Allows teachers to use food and nutrition information to teach basic skills, applications of knowledge, and critical thinking. Lesson includes a presentation of nutrition material by the teacher and a hands-on food experience for students.
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Nifty Nutrition with Skill Integration Activities - 4th Grade
Arkansas Department of Education
Allows teachers to use food and nutrition information to teach basic skills, applications of knowledge, and critical thinking. Lesson includes a presentation of nutrition material by the teacher and a hands-on food experience for students.
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Nifty Nutrition with Skill Integration Activities - 5th Grade
Arkansas Department of Education
Allows teachers to use food and nutrition information to teach basic skills, applications of knowledge, and critical thinking. Lesson includes a presentation of nutrition material by the teacher and a hands-on food experience for students.
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Nifty Nutrition with Skill Integration Activities - 6th Grade
Arkansas Department of Education
Allows teachers to use food and nutrition information to teach basic skills, applications of knowledge, and critical thinking. Lesson includes a presentation of nutrition material by the teacher and a hands-on food experience for students.
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Nifty Nutrition with Skill Integration Activities - Kindergarten
Arkansas Department of Education
Allows teachers to use food and nutrition information to teach basic skills, applications of knowledge, and critical thinking. Lesson includes a presentation of nutrition material by the teacher and a hands-on food experience for students.
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Nutra Fruit Heroes Activity Book (1998)
Damian Fulton and Eric Kaufman
This activity book contains all kinds of fun actities that children can do to learn about fruits, such as connecting the dots and finding the hidden nutra-fruit, drawing nutra-fruit pictures, finding hidden words, etc.
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Nutra Fruit Heroes To the Rescue (1998)
Damian Fulton
The gang of Nutra Fruits (super fruits/super heroes), lead by Shakes Pear, a pear with a purpose, rescue some children from eating some junk food snacks. They help the children learn about fruits and fun ways to eat them. Six stuffed fruits accompany the book as well as an activity book for the children.
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Nutrition Activities for Preschoolers (1996)
Debby Cryer and Thelma Harms
Suggestions for daily food related activities for preschoolers. For use with young children in group settings such as daycare or preschool. Also contains a training manual for teachers, which outlines a staff workshop using the book.
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Nutrition and Exercise with Jack the Apple (Five a Day with Jack the Apple) (1999)
Altschul Group Corporation
11 minutes long. It includes a videocassette and a facilitator's guide with lesson plans and activity sheets. Jack the Apple travels with a young girl to the supermarket where he sings a catchy song that identifies many fruits and vegetables and their benefits to the body. The two return home and prepare healthy meals and snacks together. Appropriate serving sizes are reviewed and appealing menu ideas presented. Young viewers will use their imaginations and strengthen their vocabulary.
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Nutrition Education in Action: Feeding Infants & Children (1997)
New Mexico State University, College of Agriculture & Home Economics
This 60-minute video is one of eighteen in the Nutrition Education in Action series. The video is designed to help nutrition educators teach about feeding infants and children in a hands-on, learner-centered manner. Michigan State's "Eating Right is Basic" flip chart of the same name is discussed page by page.
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Nutrition in Infancy and Childhood - 6th Edition (1997)
Cristine Trahms and Peggy Pipes
Offers nutrition information related to both growth and development, and also normal and abnormal conditions in infancy and childhood.
Book
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Nutrition Mission: A Multimedia Educational Tool for Youth Grades 4-6 (2003)
Katherine Cason, PhD, RD; Tionni R. Wenrich, MS; Nan Lv, MS
A unique and exciting multimedia educational CD-ROM designed to teach 4th -6th grade students about making healthy choices. Includes lessons on the food guide pyramid, food labels, nutrient density, fast foods, snacking, physical activity, and food science. The lessons are flexible so that discovery learning can occur. Also includes a pre-test and a post-test evaluation that assesses change in nutrition and physical activity knowledge and skills.
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Nutrition Smart! Ready-to-Use Lessons & Worksheets for the Primary Grades (1991)
Robin S. Bagby and Shirley A. Woika of the Penn State Nutrition Center
This source will help you teach students in grades K-3 how to make healthy food choices. It provides over 75 completely reproducible black-line master activities that use simple, high-interest puzzles, word games, cut-and-paste activities, and more to introduce and reinforce basic nutrition knowledge and skills. There are 25 lessons in this source.
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Nutrition, Health And Safety For Preschool Children (1995)
Roberta Duyff, Susan Giarratano, and Mary Zuzich
Focuses on those aspects of nutrition, health, and safety that are most important to those who work with young children as professional caregivers and teachers.
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Oliver’s Vegetables (1995)
Vivian French
While visiting his grandfather, who has a wonderful garden, Oliver gets to eat vegetables other than potatoes. Beautifully illustrated in full color.
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Oliver's Fruit Salad (1998)
Vivian French
Oliver's grandfather grows fruit tastier than anything from a can or bottle - but that doesn't mean Oliver will eat any. It takes his clever grandparents to get Oliver to try fruit salad, which, he discovers, is not just good - its yummy! Hard back, brightly colored book.
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Oliver's Milk Shake (2000)
Vivian French
Oliver is a picky eater. He knows what he likes and what he doesn't. But his Aunt Jen is determined to change his ways. She decides that Oliver needs one of her yummy milk shakes. Naturally, she knows just where to get the freshest ingredients (the farm). And this time Oliver isn't putting up a fight. Hard Back, full color book.
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Operation Food Safety - Food Safety Curriculum for Pre Kindergarten - Grade 4 (1998)
Susan Slaughter - University of Arkansas/Center of Excellence for Poultry Science
This curriculum concentrates on 3 major concepts: Handwashing; Keeping Things Clean; Keeping Food Hot or cold. Each unit contains a teacher portion with sections labeled Lesson Goal, objectives, materials, and Procedures. Each lesson has activity sheets and visual aids.
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Pancakes for Breakfast (1978)
Tomie DePaola
A wordless picture book about the trials of a little old lady who attempts to make pancakes for her breakfast. Three-color illustrations.
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Pancakes, Pancakes (1990)
Eric Carle
The barnyard rooster crows and Jack wakes up -- hungry, of course! What does he want for breakfast? A big pancake! But first, Jack's mother needs flour from the mill, an egg from the black hen, milk from the spotted cow, butter churned from fresh cream, and firewood for the stove. Will Jack ever get his pancake? Utilized as a replacement book for Like Butter on Pancakes in the curriculum Food, Fun and Reading available from the NIRC for lesson 5.
Children's Book
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Parenting Rewards & Responsibilities (Transparency Sampler) (2000)
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
This transparency sampler includes 8 full-color sample transparencies, teaching suggestions for use with each of the 8 sample transparencies, and titles of the 44 transparencies from the Complete Transparency Package.
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Peanut Butter: A Traditional Song (1994)
Illustrated by Robin Oz
Level 2 book from the Let Me Read Series tells the traditional Peanut Butter song. For ages 2-5.
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Peanuts - What's for Lunch (1998)
Claire Llewellyn
Part of a first science series that tells the story of different types of food. Using clear text and striking photographs, this series traces the journey that different foods make from their origins to the table.
Children's Book
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Pediatric Nutrition Handbook - 4th Edition (1998)
American Academy of Pediatrics
A reference book for practicing clinicians on requirements and metabolism of specific nutrients, nutrition support of healthy infants and children, and nutrition for children with acute and chronic illness.
Book
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Play Hard Eat Right - A Parents’ Guide to Sports Nutrition for Children (1995)
Debbi Jennings and Suzanne Steen
Addresses common concerns of coaches and parents about nutrition needs of exercising children 6 -12 years of age.
Book
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Potatoes - What's for Lunch (1998)
Claire Llewellyn
Part of a first science series that tells the story of different types of food. Using clear text and striking photographs, this series traces the journey that different foods make from their origins to the table.
Children's Book
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Potatoes On Tuesday (1995)
Dee Lillegard, Illustrated by David McPhail
Level 1 book from the Let Me read Series uses simple text for each day of the week starting with cabbage on Monday through stew on Saturday. For ages 2-5.
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Present Knowledge in Nutrition; Eighth Edition (2001)
Barbara A. Bowman and Robert M. Russell (editors)
This text includes chapters on energy physiology, macronutrients, fat and water soluble vitamins, minerals and trace elements, and nutrition and the life cycle. It also includes chapters on physiology and pathophysiology and nutrition and chronic disease such as obesity, diabetes, and osteoporosis. International nutrition including food insecurity and hunger, and emerging issues in nutrition such as food safety are also discussed. The writing style is scientific and detailed.
Book
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Preventing Childhood Overweight - A Resource Collection for Extension Agents (2002)
Judy Treu, M.S., R.D. and Jill Patterson, Ph.D.
This notebook provides information on the prevention of childhood overweight for Pennsylvania Extension agents. This notebook is intended to provide a professional update, along with resources that you can "pick and choose" to develop a session or two. It includes background information and supplemental resources for professionals, parents and caregivers, adolescents, and schools.
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Prudence's Book of Food (2000)
Alona Frankel
If the book Once upon a Potty helped your child with potty training, then this book will help your child to understand the importance of healthy eating! A charming clever approach to introducing children to healthy food choices. For ages 1-6.
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Pyramid Builders - Nutrition Activities for Grades K-6 (1994)
University of Mississippi
These nutrition activities focus on the Food Guide Pyramid and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. For use in a classroom settings with children from kindergarten through grade 6.
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Pyramid Café (1998)
National Dairy Council
Students participate in a Readers’ Theatre about friends who dream of opening a restaurant for kids. As students read the story they learn about nutritious foods in each of the five food groups.
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Pyramid Explorations (1998)
National Dairy Council
Travel around the globe with two space aliens and learn some key principles for healthy eating. For upper elementary to middle school students.
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Pyramid Explorer: Nutrition Adventures
Oregon Dairy Council
Four game-like modules are loaded with nutrition information and interaction. Encourages students to use decision making skills and critical thinking to make positive food choices.
CD-ROM
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Pyramid Players (2000)
North Dakota State University
This nutrition curriculum for second grade students teaches the concepts of the Food Guide Pyramid and physical activity as the basis for good health. Each of the 5 lessons has the following sections: Nutrition Notes, Fitness Facts, Snack Time, Student Activity Page/Parent Letter and Cafeteria Corner. Pre and post evaluations are also included.
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Pyramid Pursuit - Nutrition Curriculum for Grades K-6 (1994)
University of Mississippi
This nutrition curriculum focuses on the Food Guide Pyramid. Activities to introduce the Food Guide Pyramid are divided into five concepts - variety, proportion, balance, fat, and choices. Nutrition activities are grouped by grade levels.
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Pyramids Between The Pages
Michigan State University Extension
Designed for use with children in K-3. The mini-pack contains six books with positive food and physical activity messages, a leaders’ guide with lesson plans including hands-on activities for children, as well as parent handouts including ways to encourage children to become lifelong readers, physically active and healthy eaters. Recipes that coincide with the books read in class are also provided. Suggestions for nutrition education reinforcement items for each book are also included.
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Quick Meals for Healthy Kids and Busy Parents (1995)
Sandra Nissenberg, Margaret Bogle, and Audrey Wright
Over 140 tasty recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, and snacks. Includes timesaving ideas for organizing grocery shopping and the kitchen.
Book
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Reading at the Supermarket (1996)
Jill Norris
This supermarket unit provides an opportunity to make connections between reading instruction at school and your students' real-life reading. Activities are provided for individual, small group, whole class, and at-home experiences.
Booklet
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Rice - Grain of the Ancients (1996)
Marcia Eames-Sheavly / Cornell Cooperative Extension
This 36 page booklet designed for use with youth ages 9 - 12 (4H programming) explores rice growing through the letters of an imaginary pen pal named Lanlan Chen in northern China. By reading her stories and the stories and poems of others and by doing the activities (9), children will get to know more about rice and come to understand why it is so important to the people of Southeast Asia. Activities can be modified for older or younger children.
Booklet
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Rice - What's for Lunch (1998)
Pam Robson
Part of a first science series that tells the story of different types of food. Using clear text and striking photographs, this series traces the journey that different foods make from their origins to the table.
Children's Book
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Safe Food For Children: A Series of Lessons for Parents and Child Care Providers (1992)
Kansas State University, Cooperative Extension Service
The total Safe Food for Children program consists of five separate lessons, each with its own leader's guide, short videotape, brochure, and other materials. Topics include: clean hands, grocery shopping, cooking and preparing food safely, storing food safely, and clean kitchen savvy.
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Save Your Child from the Fat Epidemic (1999)
Gayle Povis Alleman
This book is an effort to give busy parents knowledge, ideas, and strategies to help them develop eating and activity habits in their children that promote lifelong health.
Book
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Serving Up Success! (1997)
USDA Team Nutrition
A “how-to” activity booklet supporting the theme Get Growing – From the Ground Up! The booklet features actual nutrition education activities created by schools across the country.
Booklet
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Sing-A-Long Milk Melodies (1998)
National Dairy Council
This two-sided audiocassette has eight songs for children about milk.
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Someone’s in the Kitchen with Mommy (1998)
Elaine Magee
More than 100 easy recipes and fun crafts for parents and children ages 2-6.
Book
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Spanish Language Nutrition Program (1994)
Adapted for Missouri Use from University of Wisconsin, Michigan State Universtisy, Washington State University and Purdue University
Black and White, copy ready, Spanish handouts designed for use with the curriculum entitled "EFNEP Lessons". Curriculum designed for use by nutrition educators with low income resource stressed audiences. See EFNEP Lessons available from the NIRC for further description of curriculum.
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Sports Nutrition - 4H Curriculum - Members Guide (1995)
Cooperative Extension Service University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Curriculum uses group activities to teach healthy lifestyles, nutrition and fitness to 3rd & 4th graders. Designed for 4H clubs, daycamps and special enrichment programs. Youth explore fitness myths and understand physical development, structure and functions of the human body. They learn principles of nutrition and exercise. Some parts may require a leader. Snack recipes are provided.
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Sports Nutrition - Leaders Guide (1995)
Cooperative Extension Service University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Curriculum uses group activities to teach healthy lifestyles, nutrition and fitness to 3rd & 4th graders. Designed for 4H clubs, daycamps and special enrichment programs. Youth explore fitness myths and understand physical development, structure and functions of the human body. They learn principles of nutrition and exercise. Snack recipes are provided. Leaders Guide provides addition information on each topic.
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Spread the Word (1997)
USDA Team Nutrition
A promotional flyer that talks about the link between nutrition and learning. Developed for Team Nutrition Days 1998, it informs the community about the Agency’s nutrition programs.
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Stone Soup (1997)
Marcia Brown
Based on an old French tale, this story is about three hungry soldiers who outwite the greedy inhabitants of a village into providing them with a feast.
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Taking Off!- 4th Grade Curriculum (1998)
CATCH
The curriculum introduces GO, SLOW, and WHOA foods and activities, so children learn to make healthier choices.
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Taking Off! Workbook (1998)
CATCH
Reinforces skills needed to select and prepare healthful meals and snacks.
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Team Nutrition Days…and Beyond: How-To Kit
USDA Team Nutrition
The Team Nutrition Days How-To Kit is a comprehensive guide that contains information on creating Team Nutrition activities: gardening, fair activities and publicity.
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Team Nutrition’s Teacher Handbook: Tips, Tools and Jewels for Busy Educators (1997)
USDA Team Nutrition
The teacher’s guide, which includes a discussion of nutrition concepts, a lesson-specific section that provides helpful hints for implementing the lessons, and a reference section for teaching the lessons. A motivational audiotape is also included.
Booklet
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Team Up At Home: Team Nutrition Activity Booklet (1996)
USDA Team Nutrition
This is a collection of hands-on nutrition education activities for parents to use with their school-age children. This 20-page activity booklet is produced in a reproducible format for classroom and community use.
Booklet
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Team Up With Team Nutrition - A Penn State Cooperative Extension In-Service (2000)
Penn State University
This video lasts for 1 hour and 23 minutes. It helps people who never heaad of Team Nutrition and who have beening using Team Nutrition know more about Team Nutrition, learn more about the resources, programs, web sites, and possibility of grants that are now available, and learn more about how to locate schools.
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The ABC’s of Feeding School-Age Children (1998)
American Dietetic Association
Provides sound nutrition advice for parents of school-age children regarding tips and strategies for steering their children toward healthful eating habits.
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The ABC's of Healthy Living (2002)
Texas Department of Human Services, Special Nutrition Programs
This training package was developed based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2000. It includes a videotape (22 minutes), overview which includes a timeline, goal and objectives for a 2 1/2 to 3 hour training session, trainer notes, list of resources, and camera ready handouts and forms.
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The Appealing Apple (2000)
Marcia Eames-Sheavly / Cornell Cooperative Extension
This 28 page booklet is designed for use with youth age 9 - 12 but is adaptable for other ages. After reading and doing the activities readers will know about the apple's original home, be able to identify the major apple-producing countries today, and will learn what these regions have in common. Activities include making apple doll puppets, exploring apples in literature, and playing historic games using apples. Taste tests, making cider,career information and recipes are included.
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The Busy Body Book (2004)
Lizzy Rockwell
It is a kid's guide to fitness. This action-packed guide to fitness explains how your bones and muscles and heart and lungs work to keep you moving and what you need to do to keep going strong. Topics in this book include How your bones, muscles, and brain keep you moving; The three things your body needs to make it go; How your heart and lungs work; and A million ways to get busy and have fun!
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The Enormous Carrot (1998)
Vladimir Vagin
When rabbits find an enormous carrot growing in their garden, they try to pull it up but can't. At last they pull it out with help from friends to make it into cake, soup, tarts, pie, cookies, and ice cream and feed a crowd at an outdoor party. It's a classic tale about the value of cooperation, in a fresh, cheerful garb. For ages 4-8.
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The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story (1998)
retold by Joseph Bruchac, pictures by Anna Vojtech
How did strawberries come to be? The legend begins long ago when the first man and woman have a quarrel and only one berry has the power to reunite the couple. Luminous paintings perfectly complement this Cherokee tale of respect and friendship. For ages 5-9.
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The Foods I Eat...The Foods You Eat (1996)
Many Hands Media
A multicultural nutrition guide for use in a classroom setting with young children. Includes a full color poster, 2 books, an audio tape and leaders guide.
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The Foods We Eat - Big Book (1996)
Many Hands Media
A full-color exploration of multicultural foods that also explores such concepts as size, shape, color, texture and taste.
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The Great American Peanut (1994)
Marcia Eames-Sheavly / Cornell Cooperative Extension
This 20 page booklet designed for use with youth (4H programming) takes you on a journey with an imaginary traveler Samuel Purvis to learn about peanuts. Students will learn about how peanuts grow, the people who grew them, how they arrived in this country and the challenges of growing warm weather crops in northern climates. Includes many suggestions for activities and experiments.
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The Healthy Body - Over 50 Fun Activities and Delicious Recipes for Kids (1999)
Joan D’Amico and Karen Eich Drummond
Contains over 50 safe and easy recipes and activities addressing the crucial role that diet and exercise play in the development of heart, blood, bones, muscles, skin, teeth, and the nervous and digestive systems.
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The Honey Makers (1997)
Gail Gibbons
Covers the physical structure of honeybees and how they lives in colonies, as well as how they produce honey and are managed by beekeepers. For ages 3-8.
Children's Book
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The Humble Potato - Underground Gold (1995)
Marcia Eames-Sheavly & Tracy Farrell / Cornell Cooperative Extension
Designed for children ages 9 - 12 (4H youth programming), this 40 page booklet explores potatoes through the eyes of 3 imaginary children who lived in different places and at different times. By reading their stories and doing the suggested activities, children will learn about the history of potatoes, how to grow them, and how they stack up nutritionally. Can be adapted for older or youner children.
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The Kid’s Activity Pyramid - Tear Off Sheets
Park Nicollet HealthSource Institute for Research & Education
Uses a pyramid graphic to encourage certain activities everyday (base of the pyramid), others 3-5 times a week, etc.
Booklet
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The Lunch Line (1996)
Karen Berman Nagel
This is a Hello Math book, designed for parents to read to children, for children to read to parents, and for parents and children to enjoy math. A letter from a mathematics education specialist gives you valuable advice on how to read with your child and how to explore the book's math concepts. And the activities and games at the back of the book provide lots of opportunities to make math fun.
Booklet
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The Math Chef (1997)
Joan D'Amico & Karen Eich Drummond
With over 60 math activities and recipes to try, you can practice math while you cook! Get a handle on measurement, multiplication, division, fractions, percents, geometry, and more, while whipping up mouth-water treats. All activities are kid-tested and require only common ingredients and kitchen utensils. There's also a list of safety rules, an explanation of basic cooking skills, and a complete nutrition guide.
Book, Children's Book
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The Popcorn Book (1978)
Tomie de Paola
Presents a variety of facts about popcorn and provides two recipes. (Utilized in the In The Bag curriculum)
Children's Book
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The Race Against Junk Food Starring the S.N.A.K. Posse - Adventures in Good Nutrition (1997)
Anthony Buono, Roy Nemerson and Brian Silberman
A comic book designed for children who are able to read. It describes an imaginary trip down the Vitamin Highway and has an adventure in “Fresh World” where Tommy learns how fruits and vegetables help make you healthy and strong.
Children's Book
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The Runaway Tortilla (2000)
Eric Kimmell
A flavorful, southwestern twist on the classic "Gingerbread Man". Tia Lupe makes tortillas so light that the cowboys say they just might jump right out of the griddle. One day, a tortilla does exactly that. For ages 4-8.
Children's Book
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The Science Chef (1995)
Joan D’Amico and Karen Eich Drummond
Contains over 100 fun, easy to perform cooking projects. Each chapter explores a different science topic by providing a scientific experiment followed by a related recipe.
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The Science Chef Travels Around the World: Fun Food Experiments and Recipes for Kids (1996)
Joan D'Amico and Karen Eich Drummond
Includes over 60 easy-to-do food experiments and recipes. Travel to 14 fascinating countries and along the way explore the science secrets of food. All experiments and recipes are kid-tested, include metric equivalents, and require only common ingredients and kitchen utensils. Also includes rules for kitchen safety and a complete nutrition guide.
Children's Book
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The Ugly Vegetables (1999)
Grace Lin
When a little girl and her mother dig, plant, and water their garden, they do things differently than the neighbors. And when their plants grow, they look different. The little girl thinks their own vegetables are just plain ugly, but Mom knows just what to do. Includes recipe for ugly vegetable soup. For ages 4-8
Book, Children's Book
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The Vegetable Friends Story Book (1998)
Tony Lawlor and Bruce Kociemba
The Vegetable Friends characters come to life in this delightful series of nursery rhymes that entertain and educate children about vegetables. This book combines fun and imagination while providing educational content. Six stuffed vegetable friends accompany the book.
Book, Children's Book, Display
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1987)
Eric Carle
This book tells the story of a very hungry caterpillar who literally eats his way through the book and all its food items. When at last full, he makes a cocoon around himself and wakes up to find himself as a butterfly!
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Supplemental Activity
Indiana County Head Start
This activity can supplement the book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". Includes various laminated foods that can be velcroed to the poster board as the caterpillar eats each one on his way through the book. Includes a laminated caterpillar, which can disappear between the pieces of posterboard and reappear as a beautiful butterfly.
Game
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The Youth Curriculum Sourcebook : A Guide for Developing Nutrition Education Programs for Youth Ages 6 - 11 (2001)
University of Wisconsin
A guide for developing nutrition education programs for youth ages 6 to 11. Includes topics on nutrition, food safety, fitness, and consumer issues. It is based on the cooperative and experiential learning theory. The Sourcebook includes program planning tips, leader training guidance, program planning worksheets and teaching resources, evaluation tools, background for leaders and 7 activity sections.
Curriculum Design
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Thematic Unit - Food and Nutrition (2000)
Teacher Created Materials, Inc.
Curriculum contains a whole language thematic unit. Its 80 pages are filled with a wide variety of lesson ideas and activities designed for use with children at the primary level. It features 3 books: Making Vegetable Soup; Bread Bread Bread, and Gregory the Terrible eater. Themes are connected to the curriculum in language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Art and Life Skills. Culminating Activities and Unit Management ideas are included.
Curriculum Design
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This Is The Plate (1995)
Alan Trussell-Cullen, Illustrated by Ruby Barnes
Level 1 book from the Let Me Read Series uses simple text to describe making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. For ages 2-5.
Children's Book
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This Year's Garden (1984)
Cynthia Rylant
This is a wonderful picture book, one family's "almanac" of this year's - and each year's - garden. Follow the seasons of the year as reflected in the growth, life, and death of the garden of a large rural family. (Utilized in the In The Bag curriculum)
Children's Book
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Tip-Top Tots: The Nutrition Pyramid for Preschoolers (1994)
Meridian Education Corporation
Teaches childcare providers how to positively influence eating patterns of infants and toddlers. Familiarizes providers with the Food Guide Pyramid, including appropriate serving sizes.
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Triangle of Health: Personal Challenge (1992)
Disney Educational Productions
This 10-minute video is one of four videos in the Triangle of Health series. In this video: Lisa was a little out of shape and a little overweight. But she found that through good nutrition and sensible exercise, she could compete on a level she once thought impossible. Lisa becomes an inspiration to others who want to know how to set goals and build better nutrition, exercise and rest habits.
Video
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Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen (1991)
Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan
Heartwarming story of a boy who wonders about the people he sees on his city's streets until Uncle Willie invites him to spend the day helping him at the soup kitchen. He soon discovers that the food collected from his neighborhood is not just food, but preparation for a feast. For ages 5-9.
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Weighing In On Fad Diets - Balanced advice on protein and weight control (2000)
National Pork Producers Council
The reference piece in this kit addresses high protein / low carbohydrate diets. Provides perspective and suggestions for establishing balanced food choices. Recommendations are based on guidelines form the National Institutes of Health. Includes reproducible handouts entitled: The role of Protein; Losing Weight & Keeping it Off; Simple Moves for Muscle Toning and Food choices & Fitness for Kids.
Booklet
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What We Eat - A First Look At Food (1992)
Sara Lynn & Diane James
This book uses colorful illustrations and photographs to make learning about nutrition fun. Through simple and safe activities, young readers will not only find out about the different food groups and the origins of foods, but will learn how to make vegetable prints, tasty cereal, and a no-cook pizza.
Book, Children's Book
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Zak's Lunch (1998)
Margie Palatini
This full color hard back book is about a boy who is bored with his lunch and who has a wild imagination. Utilized in the Food, Fun, and Reading curriculum available from the NIRC, Lesson 4.
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