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Meeting Your MyPlate Goals On A Budget (Pages 1 to 14)
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Use the tips in this guide to fill your plate with healthy foods without breaking the bank.
Healthy Classrooms, Healthy Schools
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Healthy Classrooms, Healthy Schools helps teachers transform their classroom and school into environments promoting healthy eating and physical activity. This curriculum includes two sets of supplemental lessons, one for grades K-2 and one for grades 3-5. Healthy Classrooms, Healthy schools can also be ordered with companion books that have nutrition and physical activity themes tailored to individual grades, K-5. The curriculum includes eight lessons incorporating 27 activities. FitBits™ is a best practice resource component that gets students up out of their seats and moving while, at the same time, reinforcing nutrition and health concepts that are aligned with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, grade level National Health Standards, and USDA MyPlate. Another accompanying resource is Health Through Literacy, which 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.
Audience: |
K-2, 3-5 |
Number of Lessons: |
8 (3 activities per lesson) |
Lesson Length: |
Varies |
Common Core: |
No |
Language: |
English |
Price: |
$85 |
Embedded Assessment: |
N/A |
Curriculum Implementation Guidelines
Unit 1 must be taught first and the last lesson to be taught must be the last Unit. The Units in-between may be taught in any order (Per the Ensuring Success sections “beginning and Ending the Program” and “Completing the Units”). At least 6 lessons must be taught (including the first and last Unit). Fit Bits and Health Through Literacy are supportive materials/ resource and not lessons in and of themselves.
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.
Cook: Keep Your Family Safe from Food Poisoning
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This handout reports the safe minimum internal temperatures for cooking food.
MyPlate Learning Sheet Series-DAIRY
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Active Play: Fun Physical Activities for Young Children
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This book offers 52 physical activities and their variations that are fun for young children. This is designed for children to develop fundamental movement skills and physical fitness, inclusive of children with special needs.
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).
Cooking 101 Handout Series: Basic Cooking Terms
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This handout series provides basic cooking information to use with families.
MyPlate Learning Sheet Series-FRUIT
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Early Childhood Program Guidelines: Birth – Kindergarten
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These guidelines are a set of recommended practices for programs to use as they strive for excellence in the care and education of young children throughout Arizona. This document is intended to provide guidance by delineating quality and providing a set of indicators that concretely describe what a program will look like when providing high quality early care and education for children birth through age six.