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5-2-1-0 Tool Kit for Teaching Nutrition!
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Ideal for teaching nutrition to elementary school-age children, this curriculum features hundreds of creative, hands-on activities, standards-based lesson plans, and student worksheets for a complete nutrition unit that motivates healthy eating and active living.
Update your teaching with individual and group projects designed to promote 5 fruits and vegetables; less than 2 hours of screen time; at least one hour of physical activity; and reducing sugar throughout the day. This complete curriculum makes it easy to integrate nutrition and media literacy into core subject areas while actively engaging students in fun, exciting, and interactive activities and experiences. (195 pages) For Grades K-6th
Wonder how to get your students totally engaged in learning how to make healthy eating and active
living choices, while meeting state standards? Use this new fun-filled Activity Kit filled with hundreds of
hands-on activities, reproducible activity sheets, creative food experiences, standards-based lesson
plans, and health handouts for individual and group work to make nutrition come alive in your
classroom!
Tool Kit includes 195 pages filled with everything you need to carry out fun, easy, interactive lessons for
lower and upper elementary students to teach:
5 Fruits & Vegetables a Day!
2 Hours or Less of Screen Time
1 Hour of Fun Physical Activity!
0 Sweetened Drinks, How to Cut Down on Sugar, and Drink More Water!
The 5-2-1-0 Tool Kit features exciting hands-on activities for individual and group learning experiences
integrating nutrition with Language Arts, Media Literacy, Science, Math, Social Studies, Physical
Education, Art, and Health. Teachers can just pick and choose the activities that are right for their
students!
Here’s just a sampling of activities for students:
• Print out their own set of Tracker Bands for each of the 5-2-1-0 objectives to help inspire healthy
eating every day.
• Create their own “Fruit + Veggie Tasting Journal,” “Fruit + Veggie Classroom Encyclopedia,” and
“Veggies Got Talent! Show” to promote healthy eating at school and at home.
• Conduct Science Experiments to test the effects certain foods on their bodies.
• Print out “Take-A-Break!” cards to help kids have fun moving their bodies throughout the day.
• Develop research, interviewing, and writing skills to interview family members and celebrate the food
traditions of various cultures.
• Practice taking standardized tests with reading and writing “Test Prep” activities while learning
about how to take care of all parts of their bodies.
• Critically evaluate media messages and create their own advertisements to promote healthy foods and
healthy practices.
• Work together in groups to create a “Veggies Got Talent Show” or a “Take Action!” project to help
empower kids to be health advocates for themselves, their peers, and their families.