Nutrition Curriculum

Download all of the grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8  Balance My Day™ Taste and Learn Activity Recipes in one file.  These reproducible recipes have many great uses.  Build a family connection following a  Taste and Learn activity by sending the recipe home.  Use these healthy recipes for health fair or parent event handouts. Download access instructions will be E-mailed after purchase.

English version is also available.

Educators requested and HKC responded!  The Balance My Day™ curriculum includes simple Taste and Learn activities to enhance classroom learning or to use in afterschool programs.  To build a family connection, educators requested the option of sending the recipes home without lessons.

Download all of the grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8  Balance My Day™ Taste and Learn Activity Recipes in one file.  These reproducible recipes have many great uses, including health fair or parent event handouts. 
Download access instructions will be E-mailed after purchase.

Spanish version is also available.

A handy set of FIFTY 2.5 x 8.5 inch glossy, front/back color coded MyPlate cards.  Seven cards are secured by a corner grommet, allowing them to fan-out. English and Spanish versions are available.

Each card provides a simple Challenge message, tips, and healthy choice examples for one of the USDA MyPlate food groups (and physical activity). A great tool for educators and a smart give away for families!  

HKC uses these cards as a classroom MyPlate teaching tool and with our Explore MyPlate™ event.

 

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Thirty 20-minute Grades 6-8 lessons integrate core subjects like math, language arts and science. Nutrition education lessons meet Centers for Disease Control HECAT indentified outcomes.

Use the curriculum’s nutrition trivia, morning messages, brain breaks, school food service activities, and SPARK lessons separately or to enhance classroom learning.  

Behavior theme focus on breakfast, snacks, beverages, portion sizes, fruits and veggies, active play, energy balance, body image, weight management and food skills.

Bonus features – Curriculum also includes three nutrition education event guides and a set of 156 food picture cards for food identification, bulletin boards, or nutrition education games.

Balance My Day Curriculum is THE most comprehensive and realistic nutrition education curriculum I've seen in my 25 years of practicing nutrition education. This guide is a thorough, easy-to-use tool that RDs, nutrition educators, foodservice personnel, teachers, administrators and parents will benefit from. I appreciate that there are kid's activities, fitness activities, bulletin board ideas and lesson plans all wrapped up in one book." -- Jane Pelkki, MPH, RD LD 

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Thirty 20-minute Grade K-2 lessons integrate core subjects like math, language arts and science. Nutrition education lessons meet Centers for Disease Control HECAT indentified outcomes.

Use the curriculum’s nutrition trivia, morning messages, brain breaks, school food service activities, and SPARK lessons separately or to enhance classroom learning.  

Behavior theme focus on breakfast, snacks, beverages, portion sizes, fruits and veggies, active play, energy balance, body image, weight management and food skills.

Bonus features – Curriculum also includes three nutrition education event guides and a set of 156 food picture cards for food identification, bulletin boards, or nutrition education games.

Balance My Day Curriculum is THE most comprehensive and realistic nutrition education curriculum I've seen in my 25 years of practicing nutrition education. This guide is a thorough, easy-to-use tool that RDs, nutrition educators, foodservice personnel, teachers, administrators and parents will benefit from. I appreciate that there are kid's activities, fitness activities, bulletin board ideas and lesson plans all wrapped up in one book." -- Jane Pelkki, MPH, RD LD 

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*On June 2, USDA announced a change to the MyPyramid icon. It is now MyPlate. HKC will be making revisions to include the new MyPlate symbol. Very slight modifications will be needed for the healthy messages.  

Thirty 20-minute Grades 3-5 lessons integrate core subjects like math, language arts and science. Nutrition education lessons meet Centers for Disease Control HECAT indentified outcomes.

Use the curriculum’s nutrition trivia, morning messages, brain breaks, school food service activities, and SPARK lessons separately or to enhance classroom learning.  

Behavior theme focus on breakfast, snacks, beverages, portion sizes, fruits and veggies, active play, energy balance, body image, weight management and food skills.

Bonus features – Curriculum also includes three nutrition education event guides and a set of 156 food picture cards for food identification, bulletin boards, or nutrition education games.

Balance My Day Curriculum is THE most comprehensive and realistic nutrition education curriculum I've seen in my 25 years of practicing nutrition education. This guide is a thorough, easy-to-use tool that RDs, nutrition educators, foodservice personnel, teachers, administrators and parents will benefit from. I appreciate that there are kid's activities, fitness activities, bulletin board ideas and lesson plans all wrapped up in one book." -- Jane Pelkki, MPH, RD LD 

Order now!

View sample lesson pages
View content pages

*On June 2, USDA announced a change to the MyPyramid icon. It is now MyPlate. HKC will be making revisions to include the new MyPlate symbol. Very slight modifications will be needed for the healthy messages.