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A Place of Our Own
Media: DVD
Target Audience: Early Child
Pub. Date: 2008
Description: Provides parents and child care providers with information to help young children develop social, emotional and cognitive skills that children will need arriving in kindergarten. Topics include exercise, healthy eating, preventing obesity, sleep, diabetes, asthmas & more. Also includes 9 fun activities can do with children.

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Eat Smart! MyPlate & 2010 Dietary Guidelines
Media: DVD
Target Audience: Adults; Secondary
Description: Using MyPlate & USDA's Dietary Guidelines, this program presents a practical overview of basic concepts of healthy eating.
Time/Length: 27 min
Number of copies: 1

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Food Defense: Developing a Biosecurity Management Plan
Title: Food Defense: Developing a Biosecurity Management Plan
Media: Video Tape with DVD and CD containing Excel and pdf documents
Audience: School Food Service Employees
Pub. Date: 2004
Description: This comprehensive resource will help your school food service facility become ready to deal with the threat of bioterrorism. Keeping food from being tampered with will keep your employees and customers safe. Biosecurity is an issue that will be at the forefront of issues in the future. Developing a biosecurity management team, plan, and keeping these updated are all discussed in the video/dvd. The included cd contains checklists and forms (as digital files) that can aid in developing a biosecurity plan.
Length: 10 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Food Safety and Sanitation, Food Service Management, Adult, Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials, CD-ROM, DVD

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Food Defense: Security in a Foodservice Operation
Media: DVD
Audience: Food Service Managers
Pub. Date: 2006
Description: The United States has one of the safeest food supplies in the world. However, the threat of terrorism has changed the face of many industries including that of food preparation and service. We have become increasingly aware that a deliberate act to contaminate the food supply coould have catastrophic effects. That's why keeping our food supply safe in a foodservice operation is a top priority. This educational video can help train mangers on: the types of threatening agents, assessing potential risks, writing a plan for emergencies, training employees on the plan, and forming an emergency plan.
Length: 18 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Source: South Dakota State University Cooperative Extension Service

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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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Give 'em the Pickle DVD
18 minute customer service training video. Key learning points: service, attitude, consistency and teamwork. Number copies: 6

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Handwashing For Life: The Why, The When, The How
Title: Hand Washing For Life: The Why, The When, The How
Media: DVD
Audience: Food Service Personnel
Pub. Date: 2004
Description: The easy to watch video shows the why, when, and how of handwashing. No dialogue accompanies the scenes but computer graphic enhanced video is used to show the spread of cross contamination via people's hands in a kitchen. Great for situations in which training may be hampered by a language barrier.
Length: 10 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Food Safety and Sanitation, Training Resource, DVD, Adult
Source: The Handwashing Leadership Forum

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Have Fun and Be Active
Title: Have Fun and Be Active
Media: DVD
Target Audience: Grades Preschool-6, Educators, Adults
Pub. Date: 2005
Description: Celebrate the many faces of joy and love with the family physical activity video. All families benefit from being physically active. The Have Fun and Be Active video encourages families to choose a healthy, active lifestyle. Parents, grandparents, and young children, from a variety of cultures are depicted having fun being physically active. Developmentally appropriate activities are coordinated with lively music to give families affordable and creative ways to be physically active inside and outside the house.
Time/length: 30 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Children?s Activities and Projects, DVD, Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School
Source: AbridgeClub.com

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Kitchen Math & Measuring
Explore the world of math & measuring from the perspective of a chef. Learn different tools for measuring liquid & dry ingredients, how & why we measure heat, & equivanlent measures for U.S. & Metric systems. Show how to halve & multiply a basic recipe.

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Nourishing Healthy Preschoolers: A Guide to MyPlate Nutrition
Media: DVD
Description: Using USDA's Guidelines, video shows caregivers how meals can include a variety of nutritious foods, how to determine appropriate portion sizes, how to make snacks healthy, and how to encourage physical activity. Also address common concerns about sugar, fat & picky eaters.
Target Audience: Parents & caregivers of preschoolers
Time/Length: 27 minutes
# of copies: 1

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Offer vs. Serve
Media: Series of Training Modules with Video Tape and DVD
Audience: School Food Service Personnel
Pub. Date: 2004
Description: Offer versus Serve is a training manual for school districts to use with their schools. It contains training packets for traditional food-based, enhanced food-based, and nutrient standard menu planning. It also contains a resource pack with a reference guide, a CD of print materials, and a film overview of each menu-planning option in VHS and DVD formats.
Length: 3 training Modules with approx. 10 minute video clip each
Source: Team Nutrition/ USDA

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Personalizing My Plate: Easy Changes for Eating Habits
Media: DVD
Target Audience: Adult; Secondary
Description: Reveals how real people can easily modify & find healthier alternatives for meals & snacks.
Time/Length: 31 min
Number of copies: 1

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Portion Size Me, Too! How to Make Healthy Fast-Food Choices
Media: DVD/Lead Materials
Target Audience: Secondary, Professional
Decription: Shows how to make healthier choices while eating fast-food; comparing calories, portion sizes, extras & thinking "outside the bun" for healthier choices.

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Preventing Childhood Obesity
Media: DVD
Target Audience: Adult; Early Childhood
Description: See how everyday strategies can improve your health & assure that your kids will adopt good eating & exercise habits.
Time/Length: 10 min
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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Teen Nutrition-What's the Big Debate?
Media: DVD
Target Audience: Teens
Description: Two high school classmates prepare for a debate on healthy eating, a nutritionist gives advice, & student interviews give a "real life" view of eating habits.
Time/Length: 20 min
Number of copies: 1

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What You Eat..."It's Up To You"
Media: DVD
Target Audience: K-5
Description: Teaches children importance of food groups for good health. Join Chef Tom & "Tokie" on their educational tour through the supermarket.
Time/Length: 15 min
Number of copies: 1

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