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Hear - See - Do Nutrition Education

From a comprehensive nutrition education curriculum to 5-minute Move and Learn activities, Healthy Kids Challenge® has resources that help educators support kids with making healthy eating and physical activity choices.  
 

At school, HKC resources

  • integrate nutrition and movement to build interest in math, science, and language arts.

  • meet health education standards, especially for practicing goal setting, health-enhancing behaviors, interpersonal communication, and advocating healthy eating and physical activity.

  • meet wellness policies.

  • support healthy behaviors leading to academic success.
     

In community programs, 

  • activity ideas are hands-on and provide a healthy “twist” so that kids look forward to them. 

  • action ideas develop environments that support kids with healthy habits.

 

Examples of ideas and tools 

  • Curriculum:  Balance My Day™ is a comprehensive nutrition education.  Outcomes are based on HECAT (Centers for Disease Control Health Education Analysis Tool).  The curriculum includes a section for school nutrition services.  The curriculum Taste and Learn activities work great for classrooms and afterschool programs.  Every classroom lesson has a Move and Learn activity that connects nutrition and physical activity.

  • Resources for wellness councils:  Take Healthy Action is an action planning guidebook and Health Works is a great getting started toolkit with ideas for classroom, school nutrition, staff wellness, and parents. 

  • Preschool: Berry, Berry Good helps preschoolers make healthy choices a habit.  Fun, lesson connect nutrition and movement with learning about numbers, shapes, and colors.  There are also parent activities and tips to enhance classroom learning. 

  • Health fairs and parent events:  Explore MyPlate and Ready, Set, Cook, and Eat are fun learning events.  Dance for Health™ is not only a learning event, it is a great fundraiser, too. HKC incentive and T-shirts make the events even more fun. The Setting Up for Success booklet has display ideas and games that fit a variety of situations and audiences.  Healthy6 Parent Tips are reproducible handouts.

  • Recipe contest:  Each year, Healthy Kids Challenge sponsors Stirring Up Health™ , a recipe contest for 7th and 8th graders. Thousands of kids have benefited from this fun learning contest. Included with the contest information is a set of ideas for classroom activities.

 Try HKC's free E-newsletters

  • My Healthy Challenge
    A resource for staff wellness programs or individuals.  Each month, simple tips for one of the Healthy6 behaviors help make healthy eating and physical activity choices a habit. 
    WOWS (Wonderful Opportunities with Schools)
    Every other week, the brief E-newsletter provides an easy-to-use “Hear, See, and Do” idea in a variety of topics. It includes a simple “copy and paste” parent tip, educators find handy for family connections.
     

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