Be Active Kids (1999)
BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina Foundation
Developed to give child care providers an innovative and fun way to encourage physical activity and nutrition among preschool children. Program was designed by nutrition education and physical activity experts, and all materials were peer reviewed and edited. Includes lesson plans, posters, and laminated foods to stick to food guide pyramid.
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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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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, 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 (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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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.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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 Guide Pyramid: A Guide for Preschoolers' Daily Food Choices (1996)
Kansas State University, Cooperative Extension Service
This is a small poster that shows each level of the food guide pyramid. It gives examples of foods in each group and indicates a child-size serving for each.
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Food Is Fun! (2000)
Marcia Leonard
This book features food rhymes about food - from finger-licky jelly to sour pickles. Just right for toddlers ages 1-4.
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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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Food, Fun, and Reading - Pre-kindergarten - Grade 2 Nutrition & Literacy Education Program (2000)
University of Vermont Extension
A nutrition & literacy program for PreK - Grade 2 children. Children learn about food & nutrition by having children's storybooks with food-related themes read to them and then participating in hands-on activities. Encourages children to expand the variety in their diets, add more fruits & vegetables and grains to their diet and construct a diet lower in fat and sugar.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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).
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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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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.
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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 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, 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.
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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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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.
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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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Preschoolers: How Three & Four-Year-Olds Develop (1996)
Louise Welsh Schrank, The Learning Seed
Contains a two part 25 minute close-captioned videotape and guide. The video examines the social/emotional, physical, and cognitive development of a lively cast. Part one explores three-year olds' development, part two looks at the growth of four-year-olds.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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 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 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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Tickle Your Appetite (1998)
USDA Team Nutrition
This kit contains activities and information that enable child care providers to improve nutrition experiences for preschool-age children where they live, learn, ad play - child care sties, homes, and community environment. The learning activities are the heart and soul of this kit. It contains 9 sections, a fun and lively videotape for classroom use featuring puppets, animation, and real children in vignettes, and a song tape of the songs from the videotape.
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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.
Curriculum Design
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Toddlers: The Second Year of Life (1992)
The Learning Seed
Includes a 26 minute live action video and guide. Meet a cast of the cutest toddlers and learn about the physical and cognitive development that marks the second year of life.
Booklet, Video
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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.
Book, Children's Book
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