ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Discover MyPlate 
(Kindergarten)

Discover MyPlate is fun and inquiry-based nutrition education that fosters the development of healthy food choices and physically active lifestyles for children. Kindergarten teachers can meet education standards for Math, Science, English Language Arts, and Health using the 6 ready-to-go and interactive lessons. Children become food-smart as they practice counting, reading, writing, and more.

FitBits™ 
(Grades K - 5)

FitBits™ is an innovative, best practice resource that gets students up out of their seats and moving while at the same time reinforcing nutrition and health concepts that are aligned with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, grade level National Health Standards and USDA MyPlate. The activities are arranged into four content areas: Healthy Bodies, Food Groups, Fruits and Veggies and Healthy Snacks.

Serving Up MyPlate 
(Grades 1-5)

Serving Up MyPlate is a 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 for staying healthy.

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Exercise Your Options (Grades 6-8)

Comprehensive curriculum package with lesson plans for eight consecutive class sessions. Exercise Your Options is designed to help middle school students make healthier food and physical activity choices on a daily basis. Identifying problems, considering options, and developing plans to solve the problems are important skills. Exercise Your Options allows students to practice these skills on an important issue – the choices they make that affect their health.

Media Smart Youth (Grades 6-8)

Media Smart Youth is an interactive after-school education program for young people ages 11–13. It is designed to help teach children about the complex media world around them and how it can affect their health-especially in the areas of nutrition and physical activity.

Nutrition Voyage (Grades 7–8)

Nutrition Voyage: The Quest To Be Our Best takes 7th and 8th grade classes on an exploratory journey into school wellness and making healthy food and physical activity choices. Standards-aligned opportunities are provided for students to investigate, participate in a challenge, evaluate, and reflect.

HIGH SCHOOL

Activity and Eating (Grades 9-12)

On the brink of adulthood, high school students are making important decisions that impact their future and creating habits that may very well stick with them for life. Help them make healthier food and physical activity choices by giving them the knowledge they need. Designed using a behavior-change model, Activity + Eating gives students the knowledge to develop an action plan to make healthier decisions.

USDA’s Supertracker (Grades 9-12)

The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, in conjunction with Team Nutrition, developed lesson plans for high school students using the engaging, interactive SuperTracker tool to help students think critically about their food and physical activity choices. SuperTracker is a visually appealing, comprehensive, state-of-the-art diet and physical activity tracking tool. Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this tool is designed to assist individuals as they make lifestyle changes to reduce the risk of chronic disease and maintain a healthy weight. Using this free, online tool, students can choose a variety of features to support nutrition and physical activity goals.