A Place of Our Own 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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The DVD highlights the importance of incorporating a variety of foods from MyPyramid and healthy breakfast ideas at fast food restaurants. It examines how breakfast choices affect your body, including muscles, bones, blood, brain, and your performance. It gives practical breakfast basics, including choosing a healthy breakfast cereal, vegetarian breakfast ideas, grab and go breakfasts.

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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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18 minute customer service training video. Key learning points: service, attitude, consistency and teamwork. Number copies: 6

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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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Title: 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
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Food Service Management, DVD, Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials, USDA and Federal Program Regulations, Training Resource, Adult
Source: Team Nutrition/ USDA

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Shows how to make healthier choices while eating fast-food; comparing calories, portion sizes, extras & thinkg "outside the bun" for healthier choices.

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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: Thermometer Information Resource
Media: Video Tape and DVD with Leader's Manual/Materials, Thermy Digital Thermometer
Audience: School Food Service Personnel and Management
Pub. Date: 2005
Description: This updated resource from the Food Safety and Inspection Service's Thermy campaign features an easy to use training resource on thermometers. Presented in a "critic's chair" format, four lessons address the different types of thermometers, how to purchase thermometers, calibrating thermometers, and how to take and document temperatures. These programs are available in video form or on the two included DVD's. A leader's manual includes handouts and resources for presenting this training resource. Finally, a digital "thermy" thermometer is included. Digital versions of this resources printed parts are available at http://www.nfsmi.org/Information/thermometer_resource.html.
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Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Food Safety and Sanitation, Adult, Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials, DVD

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Fun & fast-paced program using game show format introducing age-appropriate food pyramid. Is comprised of 6 rounds that feature qustions, examples, & food challenges related to every segment of the new pyramid.

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