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Library Materials - Community Resources
Listed Alphabetically by Title
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.
Book, Booklet
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Community Health Promotion Ideas that Work - A Field-Book for Practitioners (1998)
Marshall Kreuter, Nicole Lezin, Matthew Kreuter, and Lawrence Green
Combines theory and practice to help plan and put into action successful community health promotion programs.
Book
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Cooking Terms Bingo Game (2000)
Learning Zone
Cooking Terms Bingo game consists of 25 Large 8.5 X 11" laminated Bingo Cards and Instruction Sheet.
Game
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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.
Curriculum Design
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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.
Book
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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.
Booklet, Brochure, Display
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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.
Curriculum Design
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Field of Beans (1999)
Soni Ware / Berry Books Ltd.
This is a full color story book about how important soybeans are to everyone's daily life. All kids can relate to Jack and the Beanstalk, and this story will capture their interest with a review of the many uses of soybeans-from food and printing ink to livestock feed, building materials, and cosmetics. An experiment and activity page is also included.
Children's Book
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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.
Curriculum Design
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Health Promotion At The Community Level 2 (1999)
Neil Bracht
In this edition, contributing authors from around the world share their experiences and expertise about diverse health promotion programs, pointing out areas needing adjustment in community implementation, on both international and domestic levels. This book will be an invaluable guide to professionals in public health, social work, communication, clinical/counseling psychology, and psychiatric nursing.
Book
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Healthy Farms, Healthy Kids: Evaluating the Barriers and Opportunities for Farm-to-School Programs (2001)
Andrea Azuma & Andrew Fisher / Community Food Security Coalition
Explores in-depth the opportunities and barriers related to school food services purchasing food from local farmers. Highlights 7 case studies of successful farm-to-school programs and describes other on-going efforts.
Booklet
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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.
Booklet
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Kitchen Fundamentals - Common Tools & Terms (Video) (2000)
Learning Zone
This is a video that teaches the basic techniques used in food preparation. Two 20 min. segments designed for use with children Grade 6 through adults. The video features a professional chef.
Video
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Managing at the Edge of Change - Strengthening Management Skills of FNP and EFNEP Supervisors (2000)
Ohio State university Extension
This item is a video package developed from a satellite program conducted in May 2000. The program was designed to strenthen the management skills of agents who supervise others particularly for food and nutrition programs targeting limited-income families. It contains: 3 videos entitled "hiring", "supervising and coaching" and "evluating and documenting"; A book entitled Maximizing Paraprofessional Potential by Norris and Baker; a participant workbook and a Facilitators' Guide.
Book, Curriculum Design, Video
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Marketing Public Health - Strategies to Promote Social Change (1998)
Michael Siegel and Lynne Doner
This book is organized into two parts. Part I explains the reasons why both the public's health and the survival of public health itself are threatened and why an understanding of marketing principles is necessary for the public health practitioner to effectively confront these challenges. Part II discusses how to apply the principles presented in Part I in planning, developing, implementing, and refining public health programs and policies.
Book
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Maximizing Paraprofessional Potential (1999)
Joye Norris and Susan Baker
"With this book the supervisor of a brand new program will discover how to get started, from hiring the right people through managing their performance. The final chapter of the book contains strategies for implementing immediate improvements with minimal changes.
Book
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Plants Are People Too! (1999)
Jana Paulson / Berry Books Ltd.
This small full color entertaining story book tells a story about the many environmentally-friendly attributes of plants. From the towering Mighty Oak to the soccer playing Jimmy Juniper, kids will enjoy the walk through the Woodland Community with young Laird and his dog Skippy. Describes how plants clean the air, about medicines made from plant parts, about plants providing food and shelter from animals and landscaping. Book also includes activity pages.
Children's Book
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Project Food, Land & People: Resources for Learning (1998)
Food, Land & People National Steering Committee
Food, Land & People provides educational resources and promotes approaches to learning that help educators and students in grades PreK-12 to better understand the interrelationship among agricultural, the environment, and people of the world. It expands upon and complements existing agricultural and environmental education programs.
Curriculum Design
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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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Setting the Record Straight - the Truth about Fad Diets (2000)
Wheat Foods Council
This tool kit is a collection of items health professionals can use to communicate the importance of balanced eating and help debunk fad diets. Promotes the health benefits of the Food Guide Pyramid and U.S. Dietary Guidelines. Includes a Fad diet time line poster/handout;Fad diet book review; Fad diet comparisons; Fad diet guest column for publication, presentation handouts and posters.
Booklet, Display
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Sisters in Health: A Nutrition Program for Women (1999)
Tracy J. Farrell and Carol M. Devine
Sisters in Health aims to encourage women, especially those with limited resources, to eat and enjoy more fruits and vegetables. Designed as a flexible series of six 90-minute meetings for groups of approximately ten women. Participants enjoy learning as they cook and talk together, sharing their skills and experiences.
Curriculum Design
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Social Foundations of Thought & Action - A Social Cognitive Theory (1986)
Albert Bandura
This book presents a theoretical framework for analyzing human motivation, thought, and action from a social cognitive perspective. One of its organizing themes is the emphasis placed on reciprocal determinism.
Book
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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.
Brochure
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Staying Well - Teaching Tools for Older Adults (1997)
Ohio Department of Aging, the Ohio Department of Health, the Ohio State University Extension and Ross Products Division of Abbott Laboratories
Staying Well contains empowering lessons that address common medical conditions, dental health, drug issues, importance of dietary variety, alcohol, budgeting, socialization, weight gain or loss and overcoming obstacles to shopping, cooking and eating healthfully. It contains intervention activities for older adults complete with lesson plans, challenges, activities, promotional incentives, handouts and much more.
Curriculum Design
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Strawberry Plays It Safe (1999)
Soni Ware / Berry Books Ltd.
Through Strawberry's (a scarecrow) wisdom, grace, charity and kindness, all the characters in the small world around Berryfield Farm learn of the magnitude and magnificence of agricutlture. Her teachings are simple, yet they reveal the vast complexity found on the average farm. This book focuses on farm safety and includes many new characters. Full color, small lively story book. Part of a full series of Berry Books owned by the NIRC.
Children's Book
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Tackling the Tough Skills - A Curriculum Building Skills for Work and Life (2000)
University of Missouri Outreach & Extension
This curriculum was designed primarily for individuals who are making the transition from welfare to work. It uses a holistic outlook placing participants in a variety of settings, which encourages cross-over from individualized thinking to thinking within the framework of family, work and community. The curriculum builds from Attitude to Responsibility to Communication to Decision Making/Problem Solving to Preparing for the Workplace. Utilizes interactive teaching techniques and activities.
Curriculum Design
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Team Nutrition Community Nutrition Action Kit
USDA Team Nutrition
This kit enables communities to become more effective in demonstrating their commitment to improved nutrition experiences for children. There are activities for youth, families/caregivers, and the community.
Curriculum Design
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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.
Book, 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.
Video
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The 2000 Dietary Guidelines For Americans (2001)
Evers, William D, Ph.D., RD and Hanley, Erin E, RD
This CDROM explains the history and rationale behind the new 2000 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Two powerpoint slideshow presentations, intended for educators and the public audience, 10 supplementary handouts, pre and post evaluations for presentation, posters, student activites, and further resources are included. Also includes ABC's of health: Aim for fitness, Build a healthy Base, and Choose sensibly.
CD-ROM, Slide Show
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The Babies & You Video Series (1999)
March of Dimes
Babies & You is a prenatal education program (4 video series) designed to reach women and men of childbearing age in a variety of workplace settings. Its goal is to increase awareness of behaviors and health practices vital to a healthy pregnancy and to encourage on-the-job support of those practices. It provides information on: Preconception Planning; Prenatal Care; Stress & Exercise During Pregnancy and Nutrition During Pregnancy. Each video (4) runs about 35 min.
Video
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The Cook's Helper
University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension, Nutrition Education Program
This book contains recipes ranging from appetizers & beverages to cakes, cookies & candy. Also includes a nutrition facts label for the recipes as well as helpful cooking tips, food quantities for large servings, and a glossary of cooking terms .
Book
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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.
Booklet
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The Practical Guide - Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults (2000)
National Institutes of Health / National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute / North American Assoc. for the Study of Obesity
Designed for physicians, nurses and dietitians. Based on the Evidence Report released by NHLBI Obesity Education Initiative in 1998. Describes how to and provides the tools necessary to assist overweight and/or obese patients permanently lose weight.
Booklet, Brochure
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The Three Sister - Exploring an Iroquois Garden (1993)
Marchia Eames-Sheavly / Cornell Cooperative Extension
This 24 page booklet designed for use with 4H youth, includes legends, activities, and a pattern for making corn husk dolls. It addresses the need for genetic diversity, and illustrates how and when to plant your own "Three sisters". It provides a better understanding of a unique growing method, as well as the people who created it. By exploring this Iroquois gardening method, you can learn more about 3 wonderful crops as well as gain an awareness of Native American culture.
Booklet
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This Is Your Life: A Teacher's Activity Guidebook for Hands-On Health! The Activity Guidebook for Working with Teens (1999)
Barbara Storper & Foodplay Productions
This Activity Guidebook is designed to help middle and high school boys and girls improve their eating, exercise, and health habits and foster self-esteem. Can be used separately or as an accompaniment to the "This Is Your Life" theater show or Video Kit.
Book, Curriculum Design
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