| Description | Status | |
![]() | 5-a-Day the Color Way: Fruit and Vegetable Flashcards Media: Flashcards
Audience: Educators, Children 1-7 y/o 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. Pub. Date: 2004 Length: n/a Number of Copies: 1 Source: Produce for Better Health Foundation | Available |
![]() | 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. | Available |
![]() | American Dietetic Association Guide to Healthy Eating for Kids 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. | Available |
![]() | Arianna's Nutrition Expedition: Five Food Group Nutrition Ed Media: CD & Leader Materials
Audience: Elementary Description: Hold on and get ready for a trip around the globe with expert sleuths Arianna Bones and Marcus Muscleman. Students solve nutrition mysteries to learn about healthy eating in Antarctica, on the Orient Express and at other exciting venues. During this eight-activity program that supports both the 2005 and 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPlate, and supplements your language arts and health curricula, students record their global adventures in nutrition journals. Copies: 1 | Due Back Feb 27, 2012 |
![]() | BAC Attack! How Our School Fought BAC for Food Safety Title:BAC Atack! How Our School Fought BAC for Food Safety
Media: Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials, Activities Audience: Children, Grades 4-6 Description: This hands-on activity kit teaches students about food safety. Each kit includes video, posters, experiments, activities, home survey and take-home BAC-Catchers. The video highlights the appropriate steps for safe food preparation through investigative reporting done by two kids for their school newspaper after a basketball team pinic left kids and coaches sick. Pub. Date: 1999 Length: 20 minutes Number of Copies: 1 Source: The Partnership for Food Safety Education | Available |
![]() | Breakfast Clubbies: Video and Activity Kit 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. | Available |
![]() | Fruit Salad: A Juicy Fraction Game Media: game
Target Audience: Elementary Pub. Date: 1989 Description: a simple dice game involving observation and repetition-through-play, provides a simple introduction to fractions. Contents: 4 fruit salad plates, a fraction die & 15 cardboard pieces representing fractions of apples, pears, oranges and melons. Number of copies: 1 Classifications: Elementary school, children's activities and projects, other | Available |
![]() | 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 | Available |
![]() | 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 | Available |
![]() | 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 | Available |
![]() | 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 | Available |
![]() | Gobble Up Math 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. | Available |
![]() | 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 | Available |
![]() | Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils Media: Book
Publ Date: 2003 Description: Guide offers 45 experiential activities that help children understand more about nutrition, agriculture, and recycling. Audience: K-6, Educators Time/Length: 256 pgs Copies: 2 | Available |
![]() | How To Grow A School Garden, A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers Media: Book
Target Audience: Parents & Teachers, Administrators Pub Date: 2010 Description: Practical, concise blueprint for funding, building, planting, maintaining a school garden. Packed with strategies, to-do lists, detailed lesson plans, easy recipes and tricks of the trade for grades k-8, this is complete school gardens handbook for parents, teachers, and administrators. Time/Length: 223 Number of Copies: 1 | Available |
![]() | Indoor & Outdoor Games Going Beyond Duck, Duck, Goose Title: Indoor & Outdoor Games Going Beyond Duck, Duck, Goose Media: Book Audience; Educators, Grades K-6 Pub. Date: 2005 Description: Ideas to supplement a physcial education program. More than 40 fun, new games are organized by suggested age range and by indoor or outdoor appropriateness. Has detailed instructions for equipment needed, set-up required and ways to play. Time/length: 48 pages Number of Copies: 1 Classifications: Classroom Curriculum, Elementary Education, Children's Activites and Projects Source: Teacher Created Resources | Available |
![]() | 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 Source: Learning ZoneXpress | Available |
![]() | 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 Source: Dale Seymour Publications | Available |
![]() | 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 | Available |
![]() | 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 Source: Learning ZoneXpress | Available |
![]() | Vegetable Soup More Fun With Fractions! Target Audience: Elementary
Pub. Date: 1996 Description: This game uses observation, memory and repetition-through-play to provide experience in handling fractions. Players learn that a whole can be made from different combinations. Contents include 48 sturdy cards representing onions, tomatoes, pumpkins and cabbages. # of copies: 1 Source: Child's Play | Available |
![]() | Wholly Cow Media: Video Tape w/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 # of Copies: 1 Source: National Dairy Council | Available |