Title: 5-a-Day the Color Way: Fruit and Vegetable Flashcards
Media: Flashcards
Audience: Educators, Children 1-7 yo
Pub. Date: 2004
Description: Though 5-a-Day has changed to Fruit and Veggies: More Matters, these colorful cards are too classic to become obsolete. Featuring pictures of a fruit or vegetable on the front and name and color group on the back, these are great for showing children the wide array of produce available.
Length: n/a
Number of Copies: 2
Classifications: Elementary School, Early Childhood, Nutrition Education, Children's Activities and Projects
Source: Produce for Better Health Foundation

2 Copies

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.

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.

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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

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Title:Breakfast Clubbies: Video and Activity Kit
Media: Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials, Activity Guide, and 5 Plush Toys
Audience: 3-7 y/o Children, Educator's, and Day Care Providers
Pub. Date: 1991
Description:Special guest Cathy Rigby promotes a fun, musical and educational tool to expose young children to healthy eating habits. This activity kit consists of four short videos, each approximately 6-11 minutes in length. This series of episodes focuses on the importance of eating breakfast,the importance of exercise, ways to make breakfast and different kinds of breakfast around the world. The videos consist of four children, five animate food characters, two adults and Cathy Rigby in a community center setting. The kit is appropriate for children ages 3-7. Children are exposed to postitive attitudes about health, basic skills (language, math, social) and other cultures. A Teacher's Guide including 40 fun activities accompanies the videos. Also, 5 plush toys of the "food groupies" are available to make the activities tangible.
Length: 4 - 6-11 minute videos, 57 page teacher's activity guide
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Early Childhood, Elementary School, Nutrition Education, Children's Activities and Projects, Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials
Source: Food Groupie, Inc.

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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: 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: Gobble Up Math
Media: Book, paperback
Target Audience: Grades K-3
Length:136
Pub. Date: 1994
Description:A fun way to do math with food! Gobble Up Math is an activity book suitable for early primary grades that uses food as a tool to learn mathematical concepts such as fractions, geometry, patterns, sets, measurements, and number operations. Recipes are included for things like edible play dough. The old food guide pyramid is used in some activities, but the concept of food groups is the primary use of the pyramid. This aspect has been retained in the new MyPyramid system, so the book is still perfectly relevant to today's children. A bibliography of other interactive math books is given at the end of the book as well.
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Book, Elementary School, Nutrition Education, Food Analysis, Children's Activities and Projects
Source: Creative Teaching Press, Inc.

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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: Nutrient Basics
Media: Video
Target Audience: Educators, Grades 3-8, Adult
Pub. Date: 2005
Description: It was a bad day for the nutrient team. They had spent weeks getting ready for their presentation. It was a competition, and the winner would be on the school's health education team. Now they find out that most of the nutrient exhibit is missing. Follow along as the team searches for their missing nutrients. Learn how they solve the mystery and at the same time explain how six nutrients (protein, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fat and water) work to keep us healthy.
Time/length: 15 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Children's Activities and Projects, Elementary, Food Analysis, Middle School, Nutrition Education, Video
Source: Learning ZoneXpress

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Title: Nutrition Activities for Preschoolers
Media: Paperback book
Audience: Children 3-5, Childcare Providers
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 used in this book. Make sure to note the newer version and its improvements when using as a resource.

Chock full of fun and exciting exploratory activities for your little ones, Nutrition Activities for Preschoolers is a great resource for those looking to teach nutrition at a young age. The world of food is explored with much touching and play. Popular recipes for rock soup and edible playdough will make your kids faces light up with joy. However, the book also contains great information for you, the provider, about suitable foods for young children and how to make mealtime enjoyable and successful.
Length: 236 pages
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Nutrition Education, Early Childhood, Food Preparation and Presentation, Book, Children's Activities and Projects
Source: Dale Seymour Publications

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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: Spoiled Rotten
Media: Video
Target Audience: Educators, Grades 3-8, Adult
Pub. Date: 2005
Description: This is a case of food safety murder! Two teen 'investigators" happen on the scene of a terrible food safety crime and must discover what went wrong to make the victims so ill. Presented in a fast-paced, informative, teen-friendly format, this DVD on food safety highlights the basics of food-borne illness and how to handle food properly. The guidelines to clean, separate, cook, and chill are covered by the team of teen food-safety 'experts". Students will enjoy the drama and will come away with what they need to know about keeping food safe and avoiding food-borne illnesses.
Time/length: 16 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Children?s Activities and Projects, Elementary, Food Safety and Sanitation, Middle School, Nutrition Education, Video
Source: Learning ZoneXpress

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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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Title: Wholly Cow
Media: Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials
Audience: Grades 3-5, Educators
Pub. Date: 1983
Description: This classic video details the physiologic process by which a cow's body turns grass into milk. Milk production and its place in the food system of the US are explored. A great video to introduce children to digestion and where milk comes from! Includes a discussion guide with vocabulary words and activities for the whole class. The video tape is a little old and fragile, so be careful and patient when viewing.
Length: 11 minutes, 7 page discussion guide
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Nutrition Education, Food Analysis, Elementary School, Children's Activities and Projects, Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials
Source: National Dairy Council

1 Copy