Title: A Harvest of Color
Media: Book
Target Audience: 5-12 y/o
Pub. Date: 2002
Description: This book discusses growing a vegetable garden. It identifies the basic steps in preparing the soil, planting, and growing carrots, radishes, potatoes, zucchini, and beans. Included is a recipe for vegetable salad.
Time/length: 25 pages
Number of Copies: 2
Classifications: Nutr. Ed., Elementary School, Middle School, Book, Food Preparation and Presentation
Source: Ragged Bear

2 Copies

Title: A Walk in Your Shoes: Sizing Up the Situation
Media: Video Tape
Audience: Middle School and High School Students, Educators
Pub. Date: 2003
Description: This is an excellent video that covers what it is like to be overweight and descrimination. This is a great video for high school and middle school aged kids to show the effects of size descrimination. It is narrated by two girls, one obese and one a thin cheerleader. The cheerleader actually dresses up in a "fat suit" for one day and you follow her through the reactions she gets from other boys and girls.
Length: 24 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Culture and Nutrition, Middle School, Secondary School, Video Tape
Source: Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service

1 Copy

Title: Alexander and the Great Vegetable Feud
Media: Book
Target Audience: 7-13 years old
Pub. Date: 2004
Description: This book is about a boy who doesn't like vegetables, but finds himself in a conversation with a broccoli, a carrot, a cauliflower, an onion, a tomato, and a bell pepper. They argue about who is better for the body, and discuss the health benefits of each vegetable and the body's use of vitamins and minerals. A recipe for a veggie pasta salad is provided at the end.
Time/length: 39 pages
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Nutrition Ed., Elementary School, Middle School, Food Preparation and Presentation, Book

1 Copy

Title: American Dietetic Association Guide to Healthy Eating for Kids
Media: Book
Target Audience: Preschool-Grade 6, Adults, Educators
Pub. Date: 2002
Description: Written with the full support of the American Dietetic Association, the American Dietetic Association Guide to Healthy Eating for Kids arms you with practical skills to make sure your kids are eating right even when they're not under your roof. Jodie Shield and Mary Catherine Mullen are mothers, as well as registered dietitians with more than twenty years of professional experience in childhood nutrition. Their five-star system offers hands-on advice on how to turn eating dilemmas into fun, nutritionally educational opportunities. Whether your child is a breakfast skipper, an unreasonable eater, a lunch trader, or even a snack-a-holic, you'll find fast, real-life solutions for transforming eating habits, including:
Banishing brown bag boredom; Secrets of successful family meals; Smart snacks for hungry kids; The top nutrition mistakes parents make; Fueling your grade-schooler for fitness; The principles of menu planning;
Breakfast basics for busy families; Teaching smart nutrition to your young athlete; Developing a gold-star feeding relationship with your child.
Time/length: 228 pages
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School, Adult, Children's Activities and Projects, Food Preparation and Presentation, Menu Planning and Production, Nutrition Education, Book
Source: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

1 Copy

Title: Arianna's Nutrition Expedition
Media: CD-ROM with Leader's Manual/Materials
Audience: Educators, Grades 3-7
Pub. Date: 2005
Description: Arianna's Nutrition Expedition is a fun and informative way to teach nutrition to your students. This resource contains a teacher's CD with digital resources (images, blackline master copies, etc.), a student CD with four fun flash media games, a teacher's copy of the student CD, overhead transparencies, a colorful poster, and 17 full color lessons with fun activities that utilize the CD. This is truly nutrition education for the new generation!
Length: 17 full color lessons
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Nutrition Education, CD-ROM with Leader's Manual/Materials, Elementary School, Middle School
Source: National Dairy Council

1 Copy

Title: Basics: Fruits and Vegetables
Media: Video
Target Audience: Educators, Grades 7-12, Adult
Pub. Date: 2001
Description: Chef Paulette Mitchell demonstrates preparing fruits and vegetables, including selection, as well as cooking methods. Recipes and teaching materials included.
Time/length: 16 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Adult, Cookbook, Food Preparation and Presentation, Middle School, Secondary, Training Resource, Video and Worksheets
Source: Learning ZoneXpress

1 Copy

Title: Behind Closed Doors
Media: Video Tape
Audience: High School and Middle School Students
Pub. Date: 2003
Description: This video is narrated by Joan Lunden and goes behind the scene of the modeling industry to investigate the real way models look and what the media does to make them look perfect in photo shoots. This is an excellent resource for teaching Media Literacy and great for showing to high school and middle school girls who are comparing themselves to models in the magazines.
Length: 15 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Culture and Nutrition, Middle School, Secondary School, Video Tape
Source: LMNO Productions

1 Copy

Title: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Germs
Media: Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials
Audience: Grades 6-8
Pub. Date: 1998
Description: In this episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy, germs are discussed at length. The video reinforces the importance of hand washing and also discusses food preservatives and how microorganisms are spread. The featured "way cool scientist" is a health inspector who's job is to monitor food safety in restaurants. HIV and AIDS are touched on and interesting activites are given in the video and accompanying discussion guide (inside cover of video case).
Length: 26 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Food Safety and Sanitation, Other, Elementary School, Middle School, Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials, Children's Activities and Projects
Source: Disney Educational Productions

1 Copy

Title: Bill Nye the Science Guy: Nutrition
Media: Video with Leader's Discussion Guide on inside cover
Audience: Grades 4-8, Educators
Pub. Date: 1996
Description: *Old Food Guide Pyramid Disclaimer*The old version of the Food Guide Pyramid (which has since been replaced by MyPyramid.gov) is mentioned briefly in this video. Make sure to note the newer version and its improvements when using as a resource.

Your are what you eat! That's right...everything from your eyeballs to your elbows is made of food! Bill Nye tells us what kinds of nutrients are in each bit of grub and what foods are best for healthy bodies. Fun experiments showing the use of a bomb calorimeter and extracting fiber from breakfast cereal are done. The "way cool scientist" of this episode is a food scientist who does nutrient analysis. Complementary proteins, fiber, minerals, carbohydrates, vitamins, and fat are described in a very basic fashion suitable for an introduction to nutrition. Discussion guide is included on inside cover of video tape case.
Length: 23 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Nutrition Education, Elementary School, Middle School, Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials, Children's Activities and Projects
Source: Disney Educationals

1 Copy

Title: Body Talk 1
Media: Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials
Audience: Ages 12 and up, Educators
Pub. Date: 1999
Description: This award-winning video on body esteem looks at youth from diverse backgrounds to discuss the messages they receive from media, family and friends about their bodies. Real teens talk about the real issues. Perfection, plastic surgery, peer pressure, media pressure, excessive exercise, and irregular eating patterns are all touched on. Both female and male perspectives are offered. The video focuses on their healing as well at their struggles. Facillitator's guide is included.
Length: 28 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Culture and Nutrition, Other, Middle School, Secondary Scoool, Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials
Source: The Body Positive

1 Copy