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Updated to include MyPyramid and MyPyramid for KidsShow Me Nutrition is a comprehensive nutrition curriculum that teaches youths from preschool through junior high how to have a healthy lifestyle. The curriculum supports Missouri's Show Me Educational Standards (adapted from the National Health Standards) and supports grade level expectations for math and communication arts, where appropriate. Several important health themes are taught in each grade level, such as nutrition, food safety, physical activity, media influence and body image, and the grade levels are designed for continuity. Age-appropriate content, activities and handouts make learning about healthy eating fun for students in all grade levels. The preschool through fifth grade curricula include family newsletters that help family members and caregivers support learning from each grade level. Each curriculum includes handouts to reinforce lesson content with families and caregivers.
Reading children’s books with healthy eating messages encourages children to try new foods and make healthy choices. Each lesson includes a book about healthy eating, a physical activity, a food-tasting activity, and a chance to practice healthy habits like hand washing. Lessons also include family newsletters than can be copied and sent home to help families make healthy choices.
Students practice new skills, such as tasting healthy foods, washing hands, and having fun moving their bodies. Lessons include family newsletters that can be copied and sent home to help families make healthy choices.
Students are introduced to MyPyramid and learn that they need to eat a variety of foods from the five major food groups to grow and stay healthy. They learn the difference between television commercials and regular programming so they can begin to understand how advertising influences food choices. Lessons also include family newsletters that can be copied and sent home to help families make healthy choices.
Students learn that eating a variety of healthy foods from MyPyramid + being active = good health. To help students build a healthy body image, they learn that healthy bodies come in all sizes and shapes. Students become ad-busters by learning the techniques advertisers use to persuade consumers to buy food. Lessons also include family newsletters that can be copied and sent home to help families make healthy choices.
Students use MyPyramid to plan meals and choose foods from all the food groups. They are encouraged to start the day with breakfast and learn to pay attention to body cues that help them know when they have eaten and exercised enough. Lessons also include family newsletters that can be copied and sent home to help families make healthy choices.
Students learn the recommended amounts of food to eat from MyPyramid daily. They learn to use food labels to make healthy food choices and how to make healthy choices when eating out. Students analyze how social influences like family, media, peers and coaches affect body image. They also learn that physical activity is part of a healthy lifestyle. Each lesson includes a family newsletter that can be copied and sent home to help families make healthy choices.
Students are encouraged to eat a variety of foods from each food group. They learn to store and prepare foods safely. The importance of physical activity, body acceptance and food choices are addressed. Lessons also include family newsletters that can be copied and sent home to help families make healthy choices.
Students participate in hands-on activities that relate to things that interest preteens and teens, such as appearance and fitting in with their peers. Issues for preteens, such as getting enough calcium and making healthy fast-food choices, are covered in a kid-friendly format. Since sixth-graders are beginning to make more food choices, shop for food, and cook meals, lessons include instruction in planning healthy meals using MyPyramid, shopping, food safety, and food preparation.
There are 3 levels included in the curriculum: seventh grade, eighth grade, and a seventh- and eighth-grade mixed-class level. Teens learn to weigh their options and make healthy lifestyle choices. Hands-on activities help teens learn to deal with issues like body image, what to eat at fast-food restaurants, and planning vegetarian diets consistent with MyPyramid. Each lesson includes a fitness break and snack ideas.
New January 2006