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Healthy Eating Resources for Elementary Educators
Healthy eating is important for children’s growth and development and helps them learn and perform better. Educators can play an important role in encouraging students to adopt healthy eating habits by providing education to encourage decision-making that supports healthy eating, and by working with their school community to create a supportive healthy eating environment for students.
Lesson Plans
OPHEA: Health &Physical Education Curriculum Resources
– For Grades 1 to 8 includes lesson plans, activities and supplements to help you implement nutrition-related curriculum.
Sip Smart!TM Ontario
– A licensed classroom educational program for Grades 3 to 7 about sugary drinks and about making healthy drink choices.
Paint Your Plate
– Lesson plans that encourage the consumption of fruit and vegetables for Grades 1 to 8.
Allergy Awareness Challenge with Food Allergy Canada
– Lesson plan help educators raise awareness about food allergies in their classrooms. Includes helpful resources, activities, worksheets and lesson plans from kindergarten to Grade 8.
Freggie TM In-School Program
– A program that encourages consumption of fruit and vegetables for Grades 1 to 6.
Heart & Stroke Foundation’s Heart Healthy Lesson Plans
- Healthy eating lesson plans for Grades K to 8.
Food Share – Teaching Teachers about Good Food
- Food skills lesson plans and activities for JK – Grade 12.
Curriculum Supports
Food Guide Digital Scavenger Hunt
- A fun and interactive activity that provides nutrition education for grades 6-8.
Zesty lessons
– Resources, tools and helpful tips to include cross-curricular connections for various subjects.
In Our Own Words. Bringing Authentic First Peoples Content to the K-3 Classroom
- Teacher resource guide with information and guidance about how to incorporate authentic First Peoples materials into instruction and assessment practices – includes lesson plans, curriculum connections, assessment resources, etc.
Fight Bac! Partnership for Food Safety Education
– Information to support education regarding good personal hygiene and safe food handling.
AgScape
– Resources to support curriculum with agri-food concepts for Grade 7-12 from Ontario Agri-Food Education.
SMDHU Programs
You're the Chef (YTC)
- A cooking program designed to help youth develop the skills and confidence necessary to prepare healthy and tasty recipes.
Additional Resources
BrightBites
– A comprehensive program to help create a healthy school nutrition environment, one bite at a time.
School Food and Beverage Policy
– Information and resources on the Ministry of Education’s School Food and Beverage Policy that includes nutrition standards for food and beverages sold in schools.
Unlockfood.ca
– A searchable site of nutrition topics including types of foods, eating patterns and behaviours, chronic disease prevention, food preparation and planning. There is also a section dedicated to School Health.
Health Canada:
Canada’s Food Guide (CFG)
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Tips
, toolkits and ready-to-use presentations.
Nutrition Labelling
– An interactive tool to educate consumers about nutrition facts tables, % daily value, ingredient lists and nutrition claims.
The Good Food Machine
– information about how to access a Good Food Machine for your school or classroom.
Sustain Ontario Edible Education Network
– Resources and information to make it easier for people across Ontario to get children and youth eating, growing, cooking, celebrating, and learning about healthy, local and sustainably produced food.
Garden, Grow, and Learn resource
(PDF) – Tips, benefits and curriculum links to keep safe and healthy when gardening at school.
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