Title: Food and Nutrition Inquiry Activities
Media: Paperback Book of Activities with Overhead Transparencies
Audience: Educators, Grades 6-Adult
Pub. Date: 2006
Description: This wonderful resource is repleat with activities that illustrate basic food and nutrition concepts. Topics covered are MyPyramid, nutrients, portion control, food safety, and food labeling. Suggested activities are presented with instructions for their use in a classroom. Student worksheets for each content area are included, as is the teacher's key. Finally, all necessary transparencies are included for use and duplication. Perfect for any health curriculum that covers nutrition.
Length: 44 pages
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Food Safety and Sanitation, Nutrition Education, Classroom Curriculum, Book, Adult, Elementary School, Secondary School, Middle School, Children's Activities and Projects
Source: J&B Products Inc.

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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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Title: Mid Linc: Unit 3- Food-Environment Connection
Media: Manual, Classroom Curriculum
Audience: Educators, Grades 6-8
Pub. Date: 1995
Description: *Old Food Guide Pyramid Disclaimer*The old version of the Food Guide Pyramid (which has since been replaced by MyPyramid) is used in this resource. Make sure to note the newer version and its improvements when using.
Mid Linc/Middle Level Interdisciplinary Curriculum 3 units. Mid Linc is designed to integrate core and allied subjects for more meaningful learning; emphasize hands-on, experential learning within a thematic context; foster critical thinking skills, and higher-order thinking; and focus on critical nutrition concerns of pre-adolescents within the context of everyday, real-life personal and societal issues. In unit 3, topics covered are evolution of food packaging, plastics and food, food banks, are you a contaminator?, bacterial, landfills, recycling and you, and throw aways don't go away.
Length: 7, 7-50 page lessons
Number of Copies: 1
Classfications: Nutrition Education, Middle School, Elementary School, Food Safety and Sanitation, Classroom Curriculum, Manual
Source: Penn Sate Nutrition Center

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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
Classifications: Middle school, Secondary, Training Resource, Classroom Curriculum, Culture and Nutrition, Marketing, Children's Activities and Projects, DVD, Video and Manual
Source: Comprehensive Health Education Foundation

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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
Classifications: Middle School, Secondary, Training Resource, Classroom Curriculum, Culture and Nutrition, Nutrition Education, Marketing, Food Analysis, Children's Activities and Projects, DVD, Video and Manual
Source: Comprehensive Health Education Foundation

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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
Classifications: Middle School, Secondary, Training Resource, Classroom Curriculum, Culture and Nutrition, Marketing, Children's Activities and Projects, DVD, Video and Manual
Source: Comprehensive Health Education Foundation

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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
Classifications: Middle School, Secondary, Training Resource, Classroom Curriculum, Culture and Nutrition, Marketing, Nutrition Education, Children's Activities and Projects, DVD, Video and Manual
Source: Comprehensive Health Education Foundation

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Title: Mid Linc: Unit 2- Growing to the Max
Media: Classroom Curriculum, Leader's Manual
Audience: 6-8th Grades, Educators
Pub. Date: 1995
Description: Mid Linc/Middle Level Interdisciplinary Curriculum 3 units. Mid Linc is designed to integrate core and allied subjects for more meaningful learning; emphasize hands-on, experential learning within a thematic context; foster critical thinking skills and higher-order thinking; and focus on critical nutrition concerns of pre-adolescents within the context of everyday, real-life personal and societal issues. In unit 2, topics covered are food shortages and restrictions, the breakfast cereal experiment, keep on snackin', growing and graphing, what grabs you, and calculating energy balance.
Length: 6, 11-29 page lessons
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Nutrition Education, Food Analysis, Elementary School, Middle School, Classroom Curriculum, Manual
Source: Penn State Nutrition Center

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Title: Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils
Media: Classrom Curriculum, paperback
Audience: Elementary School, 3rd-6th Grade, Educators
Pub. Date: 2003
Description: This down-to-earth guide offers 45 experiential activites that help children understand more about nutrition, agriculture, and recycling. Each one of the adaptable lessons is keyed to the Benchmarks for Science Literacy and comes loaded with links to children's literature and easily accessible resources. The spectrum of activites flows smoothly across the currculum. This book is an improtant tool for those who want to teach kids about "the big picture" of food. The lessons inspire children to understand the power of their food choices on their own health, the well-being of farmers, the environment, and the local community. The activites are culturally sensitive to family food traditions and have been designed to accommodate urban and rural learning environments.
Length: 256 pages
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Elementary School, Book, Classroom Curriculum, Nutrition Education, Culture and Nutrition
Source: Tilbury House Publishers

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Title: High 5 Lesson Plans: Eat 5 Fruits and Vegetables Every Day
Media: Manual with Lessons
Audience: Educators, Grades 1-5
Pub. Date: 2003
Description: Field-tested and successful! A 10-year study showed this innovative program, developed by the University of Minnesota and Department of Health with funding from the National Cancer Institute, does inspire students to eat more fruits and vegetables. Each of the eight lessons begins with a reproducible comic featuring the High 5 Flyers, a sports team made up of fun fruit and vegetable players. The program focuses on setting and achieving goals that are reinforced by the comics and activities. Includes tasty recipes to go along with each of the High 5 Flyers-be sure to enjoy with your students!
Length: 8 lessons
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Elementary School, Nutrition Education, Classroom Curriculum, Manual, Children's Activities and Projects
Source: Learning Zone Express

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Title: Let's Make a Meal
Media: Video
Target Audience: Grades 3-8, Educators, Adults
Pub. Date: 2003
Description: Fun game show format! Riccardo and Amber host a wild but instructional game show about fruits and vegetables. Five multicultural high school students are contestants, and represent the five color groups of fruits and vegetables--blue/purple, white, green, yellow/orange, and red. They compete to answer nutritional questions. This video is a fast and fun way for students to learn nutrition concepts and practical fruit and vegetable ideas. Teaching materials included.
Time/length: 19 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Classroom Curriculum, Culture and Nutrition, Food Analysis, Menu Planning and Production, Middle School, Nutrition Education, Training Resource, Video and Manual
Source: Learning ZoneXpress

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Name: Nutrition & Fitness: 50 Lessons and Exercises
Media: Classroom Curriculum, paperback
Audience: High School Health Teachers, Students 9-12 grades
Pub. Date: 1989
Description: *Old Dietary Guidelines Disclaimer*An older version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the 4 Food Groups (which has since been replaced by MyPyramid) are briefly mentioned in this resource. Make sure to note the newer versions of these recommendations and visit www.mypyramid.gov when using as a resource.

This great set of classroom lessons focuses on how nutrition plays a role in physical activity and fitness. Everything from complementary proteins and carbohydrate loading to vegetarianism and nutrition attitudes are presented in easy to understand lessons with accompanying quizzes. This teacher's manual includes reproducible masters for the lessons as well as an answer guide for the quizzes. This is a wonderful resource for use in high school health setting where student athletes might be wondering how proper nutrition can give them a competitive edge.
Length: 64 pages
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Secondary, Nutrition Education, Classroom Curriculum, Book
Source: J. Weston Walch

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Title: Ready, Set, Food Safe!-Second Edition
Media: CD-ROM with Leader's Manual/Materials
Audience: Educators and High School Students
Pub. Date: 2005
Description: This comprehensive food safety curriculum was developed by the University of Idaho Extension. It is designed for use in high school classrooms and contains 9 lessons complete with handouts, worksheets, and a certification test. The two included CD's contain activities and worksheets in .pdf form for printing as well as Powerpoint files for each lesson. Topics covered in this curriculum are handwashing, food flow, foodborne pathogens, and many others. This is a great curriculum for high school students beginning to work in food service!
Length: 113 page manual plus materials
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Food Safety and Sanitation, Classroom Curriculum, CD-ROM with Leader's Manual/Materials, Secondary School
Source: University of Idaho

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Title: 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
Classifications: Adult, Children?s Activities and Projects, Classroom Curriculum, DVD, Elementary, Nutrition Education, Training Resource
Source: Action for Healthy Kids and the NFL

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Title: SLIC: Secondary Level Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Media: Manual, Classroom Curriculum
Audience: Educators, Middle School and High School Students, Grades 8-12
Description: This manual was designed to help students see relationships between subjects and dvelop knowledge and skills. The five multidisciplinary units entitled "Special Concerns in Nutrition," "Alternative Eating," "Disordered Eating," "Physical Activity," and "Food Safety" were developed to integrate subject areas such as chemistry, business education, history, math, algebra, environmental science, English, health, family and consumer sciences, biology, and microbiology. Units contain lesson plans, background information, transparency masters, worksheets, insructional strategies, alternative assessments, and recommended resources.
Length: n/a (one large, 3 inch binder)
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Nutrition Education, Secondary, Middle School, Classroom Curriculum, Food Safety and Sanitation, Special Diets, Food Analysis, Culture and Nutrition, Manual
Source: Pennsylvania Dept. of Education

1 Copy