Eating Healthy from Farm to Fork . . . Promoting School Wellness, Second Grade Curriculum

Eating Healthy from Farm to Fork...Promoting School Wellness, Second Grade Curriculum is a nutrition education curriculum that makes the connection between local food systems, garden-based learning, school food service, and the establishment of healthy habits. These comprehensive materials integrate nutrition education into grade-appropriate lessons that are specifically designed around the Nutrition Competencies for California Children and directly correlated to the core subjects of the California Content Standards.

Experiential in nature, the lessons actively engage the children in learning about healthy choices for food and fitness. The materials support the development of a positive school wellness environment that recognizes the relationship between health and nutrition and academic achievement and school success.

Each lesson includes lesson introduction, objectives, nutrition competencies, teacher background information, two activities, making the connection, recipe activity, review, and parent letter.
Goals: Children will make healthy food and exercise choices by developing positive attitudes towards foods and fitness.

Objectives:

•Expand their consumption of fruits, vegetables and grains.
•Expand the variety of their diets.
•Recognize MyPyramid and identify it as a guide to eating healthy and exercise.
•Increase their understanding of the food continuum from farm production to consumption.

Lessons:

• Lesson 1: MyPyramid for Kids
° MyPyramid for Kids Poster
° MyPyramid Puzzle
° MyPyramid Handout
° Food Models
° Food Name Tags
° Land Use Map Models Chart
° Rural Land Use Pictures
° Suburban Land Use Pictures
° Urban Land Use Pictures

• Lesson 2: Grains Get You Going!
° Soil Sample Analysis Form

• Lesson 3: Vary Your Vegetables
° Color-Phyto Cards
° Veggie Mad-Lib Summer Farm Camp
° Color Vegetables Cutouts

• Lesson 4: Fruit
° Nutrition Fact Labels
° Fruit Group Models
° Money for Consumers
° Farmland Simulation Instructions
° Apple Cutouts

• Lesson 5: Milk...A Calcium Rich Food
° Milk Products
° Cow Drawing
° Cow Spots
° World Map

• Lesson 6: Go Lean With Protein
° Fat Content Cards
° Arthur Young & the President
° Our Census of Agriculture

• Lesson 7: Food Safety
° Refrigerator Poster
° Cupboard Poster
° Danger Zone Poster
° Germs Multiply Quickly
° Stop Those Germs Game
° Food Safety Questions

• Lesson 8: Fitness is Fun
° My Goals Handout
° Aerobic Poster
° Strength Poster
° Flexibility Poster

• Appendix
° Food Models