Nutrition Curriculum 3-5 Grades

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 

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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.