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Digging Deeper
Media: Book
Pub Date: 1998
Target Audience: Teachers, parents, community workers
Description: This how-to guide is for teachers, parents, and community workers who want to create children's gardens linked to a community's heritage. Includes photos, case studies of successful children's gardens, curriculum activities, and sample garden designs.
Time/Length: 141
Number of Copies: 1

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Food Values of Portions Commonly Used, 18th Edition
Title: Food Values of Portions Commonly Used, 18th Edition
Media: Book
Target Audience: Educators, Food Service Employees, Grades 10-12, Adults
Pub. Date: 2005
Description: Now completely updated for the 18th Edition, this best-selling classic continues to supply authoritative data on the nutrient content of foods in a quick, easy-to-use reference book. The book's main table reflects the current food supply, listing more than 8,000 common foods, and contains data on nutrient content, organized by food groups. Supplementary tables provide data for lesser-known food components.
Time/length: 452 pages
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Adult, Classroom Curriculum, Food Analysis, Food Service Management, Nutrition Education, Secondary, Book
Source: Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins

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FUEL-Session 1 Skin Deep
Title: FUEL-Getting Youth Fired Up About What Their Culture Feeds Them:
Session 1 Skin Deep
Media: Manual, Video, DVD, Handouts
Target Audience: Grades 5-12
Pub. Date: 2004
Description: Skin Deep teaches media literacy skills to help your students decode media messages about food, eating, weight, and body image. Your students will learn to carve their own path by rejecting external influences on their self-esteem, accepting themselves as they are, and being true to themselves. Some of the issues talked about within this first series are: ways advertisers manipulate their audiences, how media sends conflicting messages, how the standards of beauty are constantly changing, and how it is important to have tolerance of one's self and others.
Time/length: 29 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Source: Comprehensive Health Education Foundation

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FUEL-Session 2 Energy for Action
Title: FUEL-Getting Youth Fired Up About What Their Culture Feeds Them:
Session 2 Energy for Action
Media: Manual, Video, DVD, Handouts
Target Audience: Grades 5-12
Pub. Date: 2004
Description: Energy for Action teaches youth to take action to challenge the many obstacles to healthy eating. It showcases how your students can influence their schools, communities, and one another so that healthy food choices are the norm instead of the exception. Some of the issues talked about within this second series are: fighting the influence of major soft drink companies on our schools, teaching kids about the entire food cycle, seed to table,informing kids about unhealthy food choices at school, and striving to bring healthy food into low-income neighborhoods.
Time/length: 29 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Source: Comprehensive Health Education Foundation

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FUEL-Session 3 The Perfect Machine
Title: FUEL-Getting Youth Fired Up About What Their Culture Feeds Them:
Session 3 The Perfect Machine
Media: Manual, Video, DVD, Handouts
Target Audience: Grades 5-12
Pub. Date: 2004
Description: The Perfect Machine shows your students that activity doesn't just have to be exercise. It empowers them to go out and find the types of activity they love. Your students will become invested in the idea that activity is important to a healthy lifestyle, both physically and emotionally. Some of the issues talked about within this third series are: how activity creates community; how it is about finding an activity you like; not just about going to the gym; how there are many ways to be healthy; it is not being perfect; and how everyone has a different body and every kind of body has it's own advantages.
Time/length: 26 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Source: Comprehensive Health Education Foundation

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FUEL-Session 4 Taking on the World
Title: FUEL-Getting Youth Fired Up about What Their Culture Feeds Them:
Session 4 Taking on the World
Media: Manual, Video, DVD, Handouts
Target Audience: Grades 5-12
Pub. Date: 2004
Description: Taking on the World shows teens how the world affects them and how powerful they can be in effecting change. It shows them that their individual choices influence the world around them, and that they have the ability to initiate change through their individual and group choices. Your students will be inspired to take action on the issues they care about. Some of the issues talked about within this fourth series are: how to teach their friends what they are really getting when they eat fast food; how to explain how the media distorts images of women; and how to become active in your local and state government to help implement change.
Time/length: 24 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Source: Comprehensive Health Education Foundation

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Idaho Farm to School Curriculum
Nutrition and Agricultural Education resource developed by Dietetic students at the University of Idaho and Idaho State University. This Farm to School Curriculum set provides over 30 different lessons plans based on a variety of Idaho foods. Each lesson plan includes a 30 minute scripted lesson and activity. Lesson plans are provided for both elementary and secondary students.
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Indoor & Outdoor Games Going Beyond Duck, Duck, Goose
Title: Indoor & Outdoor Games Going Beyond Duck, Duck, Goose Media: Book Audience; Educators, Grades K-6 Pub. Date: 2005 Description: Ideas to supplement a physcial education program. More than 40 fun, new games are organized by suggested age range and by indoor or outdoor appropriateness. Has detailed instructions for equipment needed, set-up required and ways to play. Time/length: 48 pages Number of Copies: 1 Classifications: Classroom Curriculum, Elementary Education, Children's Activites and Projects Source: Teacher Created Resources

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Nourishing Choices, Implementing Food Ed in Classrooms
Media: Book
Pub Date: 2008
Description: This book features details on ensuring sustainability, and profiles of model school- and district-based initiatives of all sizes and flavors. It also outlines novel and systematic strategies for developing food education programs, from schoolyard gardens and classroom cooking lessons to districtwide farm-to-cafeteria programs that bring local produce to the lunch line.
Time/Length: 88
Number of Copies: 1

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ReCharged: An Energizing After-School Program
Media: Teaching Manual and DVD
Target Audience: Educators, Adults, Grades 3-6
Pub. Date: 2005
Description: ReCharge, an after-school program toolkit developed by the national Action for Healthy Kids and the National Football League (NFL). The program?s 6-week curriculum features key components such as healthy eating, physical activity, goal setting, and team building. ReCharge is geared toward third through sixth graders, promotes the energy-in and energy-out concept. Students learn how to make nutritious choices throughout the day as the program incorporates skill-building and healthy practices into their lives. Highlighting team-building skills, ReCharge, also encourages activities for athletes and non-athletes alike.
Time/length: 6 week curriculum
Number of Copies: 1
Source: Action for Healthy Kids and the NFL

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