Pathways to
Healthy Lives

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Southwestern District Health Unit
2869 3rd Ave W
Dickinson, ND 58601
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Coordinated School Health Library:


Items are available for check-out for North Dakota schools in the RESP program.

Books :: Curriculum :: Games :: Other :: Videos :: Visual Aids ::

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Books

Foodservice Guide: Equipment, Sourcing, and Presentation for Increased Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
By Produce for Better Health Foundation®
This handbook contains eleven model interventions for use in replicating successful strategies toward increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables among school children, including the set up of a salad bar to increasing fruit and vegetable offerings in a school cafeteria. Additionally, suggested strategies with useful website addresses and a CD for easy duplication. This handbook was developed from a pilot project implemented in the Florida Pilot Project school districts.

Hands On Health: The Activity Guidebook for Working with Teens
By Barbara Storper, MS, RD. Grades 5-12.
Ideal for middle schools, high schools, and youth groups, this guidebook has everything educators need to make health and nutrition come alive for today`s teens. This state-of-the-art comprehensive health education guidebook features hundreds of creative, fun-filled activities to explore nutrition, fitness, body image, eating disorders, tobacco prevention, stress reduction, osteoporosis, and media literacy with adolescents. Each of the eight health segments features teacher background information; student, parent, and teacher reproducible handouts; health self-assessments; role plays, theater games, web research, and cooperative learning activities; and resource directories. All activities are keyed to meet the National Standards for Achieving Health Literacy. 200 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". Spiral-bound. Copyright 2001.


How to Teach Nutrition to Kids
By Connie Liakos Evers, M.S., R.D. Create a new nutrition culture for kids! Completely revised and updated, this resource promotes positive attitudes about food, fitness, and body image. Features hundreds of fun, hands-on nutrition education activities aimed at children from age 6 to 12. 247 pages. Softcover. New, revised edition. Copyright 2003.

Leader Activity Guide: How to Teach Nutrition to Kids
By Connie Liakos Evers, MS, RD. 64 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". This leader/activity companion to the popular How to Teach Nutrition to Kids (WA17517E) is a hands-on guide filled with delicious learning! There are dozens of original copy-ready nutrition education activities including self-assessment, goal-setting, cooking, label reading, puzzles, calendars, and more. Introducing Hugh-Man Bean, a whimsical cartoon character children will love! Copyright 1998.

Making It Happen: School Nutrition Success Storie
Making It Happen! School Nutrition Success Stories shares stories from 32 schools and school districts that have made innovative changes to improve the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages offered and sold on school campuses. These success stories illustrate the wide variety of approaches used to improve student nutrition. The most consistent theme emerging from these case studies is that students will buy and consume healthful foods and beverages, and schools can make money from healthful options. Making It Happen! includes a variety of materials developed by some of the schools and contact information for each story

Managing Child Nutrition Programs
This book focuses on the need for program standards and competent personnel to provide leadership for continuous program improvement. Focuses on the integration of food service operations and management. Includes case studies. For professionals and administrators at the state and federal levels, and advanced students of nutrition and dietetics.

School Foodservice Guide: Promotions, Activities, and Resources to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
By Produce for Better Health Foundation®
A step-by-step instruction kit to promoting 5 A Day in your school cafeteria. Encourage students to eat more fruits and vegetables with featured activities, games, announcements, and decorating ideas. The guide also includes reproducible activity sheets, useful websites, and weekly menu samples. 24 pages.

Curriculum

Food Time (grades 1-2)
Activity based program to build skills and motivate children to make healthy eating choices. Assists in teaching the basics of healthy eating in a lively way that engages students and takes the message beyond the classroom to the school cafeteria and into students’ homes. Includes teacher’s guide, teacher’s handbook, resource materials, audio tape, video tape, and reproducible
worksheets. Developed by USDA Team Nutrition. Published 1995.

Food Works (grades 3-5)
Activity based program to build skills and motivate children to make healthy eating choices. Assists in teaching the basics of healthy eating in a lively way that engages students and takes the message beyond the classroom to the school cafeteria and into students’ homes. Includes teacher’s guide, teacher’s handbook, resource materials, audio tape, video tape, and reproducible
worksheets. Developed by USDA Team Nutrition. Published 1995.

yourSELF (grades 6-8)
Resource kit on nutrition and physical activity that speaks directly to
adolescents. Contains materials for health education or family living classes to help students learn to make smart choices about eating and physical
activity. The materials convey respect for adolescents’ power of choice and their increasing control over their own health. Multimedia kit includes activity guides, teacher’s guide, duplication masters, and videotape. Developed by USDA Team Nutrition. Published 1998.

Games

Food Choices Card Game
Age 12 and up.
Making good food choices is often difficult. We know what we like to eat, but often times these foods are not the healthiest of choices. This game teaches healthy food selection and helps people understand which foods are healthiest. Cards compare: proper serving sizes, various cooking methods, nutrient content, food selections from all food groups and fast food choices. Includes 50 food choices question cards

Nutriquest CD ROM Game
Each game includes hundreds of questions and focuses on a wide variety of food and nutrition concepts. System Requirements: Window 95 or higher, 15 MB RAM, CD-ROM Drive

Nutrition Bingo
Middle School to Adult
Playing BINGO is a great way to learn and review terms and concepts. Contains 25 large laminated BINGO cards.

Nutrition Facts Toss-up Ball
Learn the answers to the 60 questions on this 24" inflatable ball as a fun basic nutrition course. Two or more players toss the ball to each other and answer the question under their left thumb when they catch it. Answer sheet and game instructions included.

Other

Anatomy of My Pyramid
Power point presentation to educate on the new MyPyramid.

Changing the Scene: Improving the School Nutrition Environment
Changing the Scene - Improving the School Nutrition Environment is a tool kit that addresses the entire school nutrition environment from a commitment to nutrition and physical activity, pleasant eating experiences, quality school meals, other healthy food options, nutrition education and marketing the issue to the public. This kit can help local people take action to improve their school`s nutrition environment. The kit includes a variety of tools for use at the local level to raise awareness and address school environment issues that influence students` eating and physical activity practices.

Fit, Healthy and Ready to Learn
Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn provides direction on establishing an overall policy framework for school health programs and specific policies on various topics. It is designed for use by states, school districts, and individual schools, public or private. The policy guide is organized around sample policies that reflect best practice, which can be adapted to fit local circumstances. Also included are explanations of the points addressed in the sample policies, excerpts of actual state and local policies, notable quotations, and other valuable information that supporters can use to justify school health policies. Each section ends with a list of resources and organizations that offer specialized expertise

The Power of Choice
The Power of Choice was developed by HHS` Food and Drug Administration and USDA`s Food and Nutrition Service. It is intended for after-school program leaders working with young adolescents. Everything you need to know is in the Leaders` Guide, including most activity materials. It`s full of quick, simple things to do with kids; many activities take little or no pre-planning. The publication contains 10 interactive sessions based on four posters. Included in the Leader`s Guide are a recipe booklet, parent letter, and Nutrition Facts cards. The CD contains additional activities, tips for improved communication with adolescents, a training video for the adult leaders, and a song for pre-teens.

Videos

Analyzing Media Influences Video- VHS
This video helps students understand the media`s influence on teh way we feel about ourselves and the health choices we make. Grades 9-12

Dynamotion: Food Fun
This award-winning video helps young viewers learn the importance of eating healthy foods to stay energized. Includes 26-page teacher`s guide. PreK-Grade 3. 27 minutes. ©2003

Human Nutrition: Video Quiz
This program gives students a look at nutrients and their part in a healthy diet. Students look at the food guide pyramid and learn how to "read" a food package label. Multiple-choice and true/false questions reinforce the information presented. 32 minutes. Grades 5-9. Copyright 2002.

Janey Junkfood`s Fresh Adventure! Video & Activity Kit
Grades K-6.
This Emmy award-winning, live-action video kit teaches kids how to be nutrition-smart and consumer-wise in today`s fast-food world. Featuring awesome juggling, upbeat music, colorful characters, and motivating health messages. Janey helps kids and their families take charge of growing up healthy and fit. Viewers learn how to choose a balanced diet from the Food Pyramid; make healthy food choices at home, school, and on the run; cut down on sugar and fat; read food labels and see through commercials; and enjoy keeping active. Includes a 30-minute videotape and a 30-page follow-up teacher activity guidebook. Sponsored by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation. Copyright 1996

MyPyramid Video- VHS
This Discovery Health video teaches students about the new MyPyramid food guide and how to use it in their daily lives.

Super Size Me- DVD
In Super Size Me, film maker Morgan Spurlock unravles the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and by subjecting himself to a "Mcdonalds only" diet for thirty days straight. This film dives into corporate responsibility, nutritional education, school lunch programs, and how we as a nation are eating ourselves to death. This educationally enhanced version includes new, instructional content and games that help educate viewers on a host of subjects related to the film.

Teenage Nutrition
Empower teens to make healthy food choices, increase activity, modify unhealthy lifestyle behavior, and maintain a healthy weight without dieting. Label reading, USDA Food Guide Pyramid, eating out, hunger awareness, energy balance, exercise prescriptions, high risk situations, problem solving, and journal writing are all addressed. Includes reproducible lesson plans. 22 minutes. Created by a registered dietitian and fitness expert for grades 7-12. Copyright 1999.

Visual Aids

Fat Facts Test Tubes– Fast Foods, Snack Foods, Vending Machine Foods
Labels are important in helping us to determine which foods we should eat and which ones we should limit, but thinking about fat in terms of "grams" is still an abstract concept. This set of test tubes is designed to help viewers form a better idea of how much fat is found in certain foods. Test tubes contain "liquifat," simulated fat that oozes to one end of the tube to the other, providing a unique and graphic reminder that fat is eventually deposited on artery walls.

Faux Food
Rubber food from all food groups that helps teach serving sizes. A great way for people to actually see what a serving size looks like. (a variety of food to choose from)

How much pop is too much!!
Use this to show the negative health effects of too much pop. It is a large pop can demonstrating the amount of pop a person consumes in 1 month if drinking 2 cans per day. it also includes a 5 pound bag of sugar and a 2.4 lb fat model to show the effects of pop on the body.

MyPyramid display
Large plexi-glass MyPyramid with fake food. Great to teach students about serving sizes and the various components of MyPyramid.

Nutrition Flip Chart
Reveal the simple truths of good basic nutrition with this colorful chart. While food alone cannot make you healthy, good eating habits based on moderation and variety can improve your health. This chart discusses the role of soluble and insoluble fiber; the need to eat less fat, salt, and sugar; and the role of vitamins, calcium, and protein. This 6-panel chart measures 12" x 17".

Sugar Facts Test Tubes
Displaying sugar in actual grams, these test tubes show how much sugar is in certain foods. A great educational tool, this set will help people visualize sugar content.

Vat of Fat
Explaining how caloric intake translates into weight gain is simplified with this graphic and informative display. The jar contains approximately 1 lb. of gooey, yellowish simulated fat, which represents the amount of weight a person would gain in one week if they consumed an extra 500 calories each day. Information on the back of the jar shows how much weight a person could gain in one year as a result of eating certain foods - including french fries, candy bars, and doughnuts - on a daily basis. 5" x 6-1/2".

Visualize your Serving Size
A great hands-on learning tool to teach kids about serving sizes. Features a nice carrying case easy for transporting.

What You Should Know About Nutrition Folding Display
Reviewing different food categories and their effects on health, this folding display is made of high-quality bookbinding materials for durability. Folds flat for carrying and will stand on any tabletop surface

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