Classroom Nutrition Education
Links
Nutrition Explorations
This site provides fun and easy ideas and resources to teach and learn nutrition. It contains sections for educators, school foodservice, parents and kids. Monthly updates keep the information current and fresh. www.nutritionexplorations.org
Michigan Model for Health
Michigan Model for Health curriculum facilitates interdisciplinary learning through lessons which integrate health education into other curricula, including language arts, social studies, science, math and art. Teacher training in the implementation of the Model ensures that students and their schools, as a whole, get maximum benefits from this carefully constructed program. www.emc.cmich.edu/mm
Michigan Team Nutrition
Michigan Team Nutrition represents a partnership between Michigan State University Extension and Michigan Department of Education. This site has dozens of resources for schools, lists current grants available to schools and highlights the most current nutrition and physical activity information for schools. www.tn.fcs.msue.msu.edu
Action for Healthy Kids
This coalition is concentrating their efforts to ensure that healthy foods and beverages are provided throughout the entire school environment and that schools offer quality, daily physical activity. This is a nationwide initiative dedicated to improving the health and educational performance of students through better nutrition and physical activity in schools. This effort represents a response to our nation’s epidemic of overweight, sedentary, and undernourished children and adolescents. Each state, including Michigan, has a direct link on this site which highlights the state’s efforts. www.actionforhealthykids.org
Michigan Action for Healthy Kids School Success Stories
This site provides you with an opportunity to share your school’s nutrition or physical activity successes. When you share your success, you help other schools make improvements by providing concrete ideas as well as inspiration. Success stories are organized by topic area or category to help schools easily find the ideas that are of most interest and use. www.mihealthtools.org/schoolsuccess
Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health & Sports/Michigan Fitness Foundation
The Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health & Sports and the Michigan Fitness Foundation are working to improve the health of the people in Michigan by promoting the health benefits of physical activity and creating behavior-changing programs the equip Michigan citizens to lead physically active lives. www.michiganfitness.org