Food Stamp Nutrition Education in Arkansas
Curricula
and Education Resources
Pre-School - K Youth •
Elementary Youth •
Middle School - High School Youth •
Adult
Pre-School - K Youth Audiences
Program developed
to reach limited-resource children ages four and five with fun, interactive
learning opportunities on physical activity and healthy eating. (English &
Spanish)
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Fight Bac
- Partnership for Food Safety Education
Materials teach
food safety using experiments to help children discover the science behind food
safety.
Encourages children
to eat a variety of foods from the five USDA approved food groups in an
entertaining way. Children learn about good nutrition through a series of visual
and hands-on activities featuring the five friendly Food Groupie characters.
Children learn
about food and nutrition by reading children's storybooks with food-related themes and then participate in hands-on nutrition activities.
Elementary Youth Audiences
- All About Farmers’ Market -
A teaching Guide for Classrooms, Camps, and Community Programs
This curriculum
teaches pre-K through early elementary children about farmers’ markets, where
food comes from, food groups, and making healthy food choices through hands-on
activities and field trips.
A walk-through exhibit that represents the human
body and helps students learn the importance of making healthy food choices and
being physically active. The program includes a manual with classroom
activities for use prior to and following the students’ walk through the
exhibit, a take-home activity book for students to read with their families, and
a list of additional nutrition education resources.
Messages and
materials that encourage children and their families to adopt nutrition
behaviors that are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The
focus is on four basic themes—the importance of breakfast, healthy snacks,
physical activity, and balancing what you eat with what you do. (English and
Spanish)
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Fight Bac
- Partnership for Food Safety Education
Materials teach
food safety using experiments to help children discover the science behind food
safety.
Curriculum helps children develop into healthy
adults by gaining an interest in eating healthy foods and adopting fitness as
part of their lifestyles. The curriculum focuses on MyPyramid, the Dietary
Guidelines for Americans, the four Fight BAC! Rules, and being physically
active. It provides five lessons for each grade from 1 to 6. Each of the 30
lessons includes a lesson plan, visuals, handouts, recipes, and evaluation
forms.
Includes
interactive computer game, posters, tips for families, coloring page,
worksheets, and classroom lessons/materials for grades 1 - 6.
Multiple tools to
teach healthy eating and physical activity practices using the OrganWise Guys
characters. The topics addressed are low-fat, high-fiber eating, drinking plenty
of water, and the importance of exercising.
For children in
grades Pre-K to 3, materials links nutrition and physical activity education
with literacy and reinforces positive reading, eating and health habits that can
potentially last a lifetime. Materials include six books with positive food and
physical activity messages, a leaders’ guide with lesson plans including
hands-on activities for children, parent handouts, recipes, suggestions for
nutrition education reinforcement items and an apron for the educator to wear
while conducting the lessons and classroom cooking activities.
Middle School - High School Youth Audiences
-
Fight Bac
- Partnership for Food Safety Education
Materials teach
food safety using experiments to help youth discover the science behind food
safety.
Nutrition
Essentials is a series of lessons for teens to make healthful eating and
physical activity choices. There are six sequential lesson plans - each is based
on a poster or other visual image that serves as the focus for class discussions
and activities.
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Power of Choice
- Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration and USDA's Food
and Nutrition Service
Interactive
learning program for young adolescents (ages 11 to 13) with messages and
activities to help guide preteens toward healthier lifestyles. The Leader’s
Guide is designed to build skills, motivate, and empower preteens to make
smarter food and activity choices for a healthier future.
Adult Audiences
Lessons (16)
targeted to limited-resource individuals and families that concentrate on
General Knowledge of Nutrition, Food and Meal Planning, Food Purchasing, Food
Storage and Sanitation, and Food Preparation.
An activity kit
designed to improve fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity among
60-74 year olds participating in or eligible for FNS nutrition assistance
programs. The materials are based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and
MyPyramid as well as a review of promising practices shown to be effective in
achieving behavior change among the target audience. Expected release: Fall
2007.
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Eat Well for Less/Healthy
Families: Eating Smart & Being Active
- Colorado State University Extension
Colorado State
University is replacing Eat Well for Less with Healthy Families: Eating Smart &
Being Active
Raises participant
awareness about the importance of eating well on a limited income and to provide
tools for positive change in eating, shopping and food preparation behaviors.
The lessons teach the Food Guide Pyramid through self-assessment and also cover
shopping, food safety, food budgeting and menu planning.
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Fight Bac
- Partnership for Food Safety Education
Materials teach
food safety using experiments to help participants discover the science behind
food safety.
This project
provides educational and promotional materials and techniques for use with Food
Stamp Program (FSP) participants and eligibles. The materials are specifically
targeted and designed for English and Spanish speaking women with children ages
2 through 18.
Includes (41)
newsletters and (3) sharing sessions to help parents and other caregivers
promote healthful eating and active living to young children.
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Nutrition $en$e -
Mississippi State University Extension
Includes four
lessons: 1) Planning $ense, 2) Money $ense, Safe Food $ense, and 4) Smart
Shopping $ense.
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Reshape Yourself
- University of Arkansas Extension
Nutrition education
program and group support for individuals wanting to work toward a healthier
lifestyle, which may include losing weight. The program focuses on choosing a
sensible, balanced diet that fits the individual’s lifestyle, walking regularly
for exercise, and making lifelong behavioral changes.
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Right Bite Cooking
- University of Arkansas Extension
Participants learn
to reduce fat and sodium, increase fruits, vegetables and fiber, and use
alternative sweeteners in food preparation. Includes teaching guide, overheads
and handouts.
Table top
educational displays and accompanying newsletter with topics related to dietary
quality, physical activity, and food safety. Newsletter titles include: Have
you Fed Your Bones Today?; Fight Bac; Eat Your Colors to Stay Healthy and Fit;
Get Up, Get Moving!; Listen to Your Heart; Eat Smart, Be Active; What Size is
Your Serving?; Body Mass Index; Snack Attack!; Just Add Water!; Read it Before
You Eat it!; and Fiber…Are You Getting Enough?
Entertaining,
informative program designed to help families Take Down Fat, Take 5 a Day and
Take Action and brings the messages to life by emphasizing the importance of
incorporating healthy habits into daily life.
This curriculum
includes twelve lessons on the following topics: heart disease and high blood
pressure, Take 5 A Day, Staying Physically Active, Budget Fat and Finances,
Fresh Water and Good Health, Calcium and Osteoporosis, Nutrition and cancer
prevention, Diabetes, Managing Arthritis, Food Safety, and Dental Health. Uses
the Take Charge of Your Health campaign messages of Take Down Fat, Take 5 A Day
and take Action. Only lessons which focus on improving dietary quality and/or
contain related activities as a way of promoting health and preventing
diet-related diseases are used in the FSNE program.
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Touching Hearts, Touching
Minds -
Massachusetts WIC Nutrition Program
Emotion based
nutrition education materials for parents of young children. This curriculum is
based on the idea that emotions, not logic or facts alone, drive behaviors and
lead to behavior change.
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