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Implementation
Tools and Resources
Check out the
Team Nutrition library
for resources, lesson plans,
recipes, guidance to improve the
quality of school meals, and
materials for nutrition
education and promotion:
- Fact Sheets for Healthier School Meals
help schools implement the major recommendations from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans within the school meal pattern requirements and nutrition standards.
- Serving Up MyPlate: A Yummy Curriculum
is a new collection of classroom materials that helps elementary school teachers integrate nutrition education into Math, Science, English Language Arts, and Health. This yummy curriculum introduces the importance of eating from all five food groups using the MyPlate icon and a variety of hands–on activities. Students also learn the importance of physical activity to staying healthy.
- Healthier Middle Schools:
Everyone Can Help
is a
series of communication
tools designed to help you
engage teachers, principals,
parents, foodservice
managers and students in
school wellness efforts. To
support healthy food choices
and physical activity at
your school, a school-wide
coordinated approach works
best. These tools will help
you bring everyone together
to promote student wellness
and prevent childhood
obesity. This resource
includes an audience-tested
video and a print handout
for teachers, principals,
parents, foodservice
managers and students. Focus
groups across the country
informed the development of
these tools - so they
reflect what the various
audiences found to be
motivational and realistic.- Making it Happen: School
Nutrition Success Stories
includes success stories of
innovative K-12 schools
across the United States
that improved their school
nutrition environments and
the nutritional quality of
foods and beverages offered
and sold on school campuses.
Making It Happen! includes a
variety of materials
developed by some of the
schools and contact
information for each story.
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Recipes for Healthy Kids
Cookbooks
include 30 delicious, kid-approved recipes from the Recipe for Healthy Kids (R4HK) Competition, which challenged teams of school nutrition professionals, chefs, students, parents and other community members to develop creative and tasty recipes that schools can easily incorporate into their National School Lunch Program menus. These recipes have been standardized and compiled into cookbooks for use in homes, child care centers, and schools.
The CDC has online resources to assist
school districts in designing,
implementing and promoting
elements of local school
wellness policies:
Be sure to take a look at CDC's
School Health
Guidelines to Promote Healthy
Eating and Physical Activity.
This
resource presents guidelines
for developing, implementing, and
evaluating school-based healthy
eating and physical activity
policies and practices for K-12
students. They also provide useful
strategies for
facilitating the implementation
of the guidelines and cover
topics including policy, and
school environment
recommendations, physical
education, school meals,
competitive foods, school health
eservices, school employee
wellness, health education and
teacher qualifications and
training.Additional
resource on evaluating wellness
policies:
Resource to Sustain and
Strengthen Local Wellness
Initiatives is a guide to help
school districts conduct an
evaluation of local wellness
policies. This guide details
step-by-step instructions for
conducting an evaluation,
deciding what the results mean,
and communicating the findings
to stakeholders. (Developed by
NFSMI and funded, in part, by
USDA.)
This portion
of our site will continue to be
updated to reflect the
requirements of the 2010 law.
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