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Eat Smart, Live Strong
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Eat Smart, Live Strong is an intervention designed to improve fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity among 60-74 year olds participating in or eligible for FNS nutrition assistance programs. The intervention can support the efforts of program providers and communities in delivering nutrition education to low-income older adults. Each session in Eat Smart, Live Strong focuses on changing behavior by guiding participants in learning and practicing new skills.
Audience: |
Seniors (60-74 years old) |
Number of Lessons: |
4 |
Lesson Length: |
45 minutes |
Common Core: |
N/A |
Language: |
English (Spanish Handouts) |
Price: |
Free |
Embedded Assessment: |
Required |
Curriculum Implementation Guidelines
Curriculum can be taught as a series or as stand-alone lessons.
Parents Tips! Getting Kids in the Kitchen
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Eat Together, Eat Better
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The Eat Together, Eat Better lessons support nutrition, parent, and youth educators in teaching the importance of family meals. The lessons use a mix of interactive learning formats, including small-and large-group discussions, brainstorming, planning, and cooking activities. All of these activities create discussion, encourage problem solving, and develop skills to support family meals.
Audience: |
Adults and Children |
Number of Lessons: |
3 (adult, child and family sessions per lesson) |
Lesson Length: |
45-60 minutes |
Common Core: |
No |
Language: |
English (Spanish Handouts) |
Price: |
Free |
Embedded Assessment: |
Required |
Curriculum Implementation Guidelines
Lessons can be taught as stand-alone lessons, but each session of the lesson must be taught (child, parent and family sessions).
Separate: Don’t Cross Contaminate
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Eating Smart Being Active
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Eating Smart • Being Active is a healthy eating and active living curriculum designed to be taught to limited-resource adults. The lesson plans of Eating Smart • Being Active are appropriate for use by paraprofessional (peer) nutrition educators when teaching limited-resource adults about healthy lifestyle choices. The curriculum consists of nine core lessons, each designed to be taught in less than 2 hours. All participant materials are available in English and Spanish*. All lessons include a food preparation activity and lessons 2 through 9 include a physical activity segment. Eating Smart • Being Active can be used to teach adults 1-on-1 or in small groups (2-12 people). While the materials could be used in larger groups, adult learning principles guide us toward smaller groups to encourage greater participant involvement and enhanced learning.
Audience: |
Adults with Young Children |
Number of Lessons: |
9 |
Lesson Length: |
60-90 minutes |
Common Core: |
N/A |
Language: |
English and Spanish |
Price: |
$54 |
Embedded Assessment: |
N/A |
Curriculum Implementation Guidelines
The curriculum consists of nine core lessons, which are designed to be taught in order.
Fit Bits
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Growing Healthy Habits
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Growing Healthy Habits is a gardening and nutrition education curriculum for elementary aged kids. This resource focuses on integrating nutrition into the classroom through gardening and scripted lessons that meet science, language arts, social studies, health, and math objectives. Growing Healthy Habits uses gardening as a tool for encouraging students to consume more fruits and vegetables and whole grains, and increase physical activity.
Audience: |
K-5 |
Number of Lessons: |
9 Units (3 lessons per unit) |
Lesson Length: |
25-50 minutes |
Common Core: |
Yes |
Language: |
English |
Price: |
Free |
Embedded Assessment: |
N/A |
Curriculum Implementation Guidelines
Units can be taught in any order and each lesson within each unit can be taught in any order, but all units of the curriculum must be taught.
Health Through Literacy Makes Reading Fun
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Health Through Literacy is a book set of five to six books, age-appropriate for each grade K–5. Each set includes books with nutrition or physical activity themes. Every book comes with a tip sheet to enhance the health messages in the book. The tip sheets help teachers discuss the books with their classes, incorporate physical activity into the reading of the book, provide ideas for a food tasting for students, and integrate health messages with other areas of the curriculum.
Junior Master Gardener – Level 1
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Curriculum Description
The 2016 revised Junior Master Gardener (JMG) Level 1 curriculum provides elementary teachers with the tools to teach the world of gardening with eight chapters of novel, hands-on and proven lessons. The curriculum also helps develops life skills, includes career exploration and provides opportunities for students to culminate the JMG experience with service-learning projects. As students complete areas of study, they can earn different recognition certifications including designation as Certified Junior Master Gardeners. Each chapter is divided into sections called teaching concepts. Then, there are multiple activities within each teaching concept.
Audience: |
Grades 3-5 |
Number of Lessons: |
8 Chapters |
Lesson Length: |
15-45 minutes |
Common Core: |
No |
Language: |
English (Teacher guide also available in Spanish) |
Price: |
$56 (Teacher guide), $15 (Student handbook) |
Embedded Assessment: |
No |
Curriculum Implementation Guidelines
Lessons may be used individually as stand-alone lessons. The program can be implemented in schools, after-school programs, or other groups interested in young gardeners. Teaching multiple activities within a teaching concept is recommended.
MyPlate for My Family
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MyPlate for My Family: SNAP Nutrition Education is a MyPlate resource that supports SNAP-Ed nutrition education and obesity prevention efforts, and is based on recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It is targeted to parents and caregivers who are SNAP participants or eligible for SNAP, and play a key role in planning, purchasing, and preparing food for their families.
Audience: |
Adults with Children |
Number of Lessons: |
4 |
Lesson Length: |
45 minutes |
Common Core: |
No |
Language: |
English and Spanish |
Price: |
Free |
Embedded Assessment: |
N/A |
Curriculum Implementation Guidelines
Lesson can be taught as stand-alone sessions. This curriculum is designed to be taught to parents with children ages 2-18 years old.
The Great Garden Detective
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Discover which fruits and vegetables are sweetest, crunchiest, and juiciest through a series of investigations and fun experiences connecting the school garden to the classroom, school cafeteria, and home. This eleven-lesson curriculum for 3rd and 4th grades includes bulletin board materials, veggie dice, fruit and vegetable flash cards, and ten issues of Garden Detective News for parents/caregivers.
Audience: |
3rd-4th Grade |
Number of Lessons: |
11 |
Lesson Length: |
90-100 minutes |
Common Core: |
No |
Language: |
English |
Price: |
Free |
Embedded Assessment: |
N/A |
Curriculum Implementation Guidelines
Lessons are part of a series and taught in order. Curriculum flexibility based on garden type and size of garden.
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND): Food Storage Savvy: Your Guide to What Goes Where Infographic
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First comes shopping, then comes putting food away — but where? You may be surprised to learn the best places to store your groceries! Here's a helpful guide from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
GoNoodle
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Without leaving the classroom, students participate in a variety of purposeful movement designed to get the wiggles out and refocus the classroom — all in five minutes or less. GoNoodle involves movement activities that develop memory and fluency in math, spelling, and vocabulary.
My Native Plate
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This colorful handout developed by the Indian Health Service shows balanced meals with reasonable portion sizes. This tool shows three easy steps to knowing what and how much to eat. The front features a dinner plate. The back shows youth breakfast, lunch, and optional dinner plates. Based on the USDA MyPlate and designed for Native audiences.
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