University of Arizona Cooperative Extension – Maricopa County
http://cals.arizona.edu/maricopa/fcs/
Access all the resources from University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, Department of Nutritional Sciences and other parts of the University of Arizona, 4-H and the national Extension System in every state.

Action for Healthy Kids.
http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/
The only nonprofit organization formed specifically to address the epidemic of overweight, undernourished and sedentary youth by focusing on changes at school. We work in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to improve children's nutrition and increase physical activity, which will in turn improve their readiness to learn.

The Arizona Nutrition Network
http://www.eatwellbewell.org
The Arizona Nutrition Network is a public and private partnership led by the Arizona Department of Health’s Office of Nutrition and Chronic Disease Prevention Services. Through an interagency agreement with the Department of Economic Security, Family Assistance Administration, the Network provides common nutrition messages to food stamp participants and applicants.

Dole 5 A Day
http://www.dole5aday.com
This site is hosted by 36 fruit and vegetable characters that make eating 5 fruits and vegetables a day fun!

Fight BAC
http://www.fightbac.org/main.cfm
Goal is to educate consumers on four simple steps they can take to fight foodborne bacteria and reduce their risk of foodborne illness.

5 A Day for Better Health
http://www.5aday.org
5 A Day for Better Health program is the nation’s largest public-private nutrition education initiative with 5 A Day coordinators in each state, territory, and the military. The program is guided by the collaborative efforts of members of the National 5 A Day Partnership with the goal of increasing fruit and vegetable consumption to 5 A Day for 75 percent of Americans by 2010.

National Dairy Council
http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org
As a leader in nutrition research since 1915, the National Dairy CouncilR (NDC) is dedicated to providing timely, scientifically sound nutrition information on the health benefits of milk, cheese and yogurt. The NDC Web site includes recent health and nutrition research reviews, downloadable educational materials and more.

MyPyramid.gov
http://www.mypyramid.gov
The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, an organization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was established in 1994 to improve the nutrition and well-being of Americans. Toward this goal, the Center focuses its efforts on two primary objectives— Advance and promote dietary guidance for all Americans, and Conduct applied research and analyses in nutrition and consumer economics

Purdue Extension
http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/extension/children-wt
Purdue Extension in Indiana have created a website of Children and Body Weight Issues resources that are available for possible use in the community. The website is separated into broad categories based on whether programs tend to be more oriented to schools or outside of schools.

Team Nutrition
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/
Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity.

USDA Nutrient Database
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2005. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 18. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page, http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp

ACE Operation Fit Kids
http://www.acefitness.org/ofk/
The ACE Operation FitKids curriculum is designed for educators looking to integrate health and fitness into classroom learning. The seven-lesson module was developed for grades 3rd - 5th to teach them the extreme dangers of being overweight and the importance of a healthy and active lifestyle. The program is available in an easy to download PDF format and is offered as a public service of the American Council on Exercise. For more information or to download curriculum, visit http://www.acefitness.org/ofk/

Classy Moves
Physical activity curriculum kit for grades K-5. Classy Moves are integrated physical activities and nutrition messages teachers can implement throughout the day for use in their classroom. They are made up of 75 mini lessons that take just 3-5 minutes each to conduct. In-services for teachers have been provided at Los Ninos and Esperanza Elementary Schools. For more information, contact Dan McDonald at mcdonald@ag.arizona.edu or at 520-626-5161.

Color Me Healthy
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/harnett/color.html
The award-winning curriculum was developed through a partnership of North Carolina Cooperative Extension and the Physical Activity and Nutrition Unit, N.C. Division of Public Health. The program targets 4- and 5-year-olds, in hopes of improving their diet and activity levels.

Tickle Your Appetite
http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/Resources/tickle.html
This redesign of the curriculum-based kit for WIC is directed to child care centers. It is a fun, nutrition education kit for preschoolers. It contains materials and ideas to communicate the messages of eating a variety of foods and the origins of food in ways that children will understand and remember. The kit, used by child care centers, contains a lively videotape with three vignettes, activities for each vignette, an audio tape, artwork, and reproducible materials. USDA Team Nutrition.

Exploring the Food Guide Pyramid with Professor Popcorn
http://www.ces.purdue.edu/cfs/topics/EFNEP/professorpopcorn.htm
This is designed for children in grades 1-6. There are five lessons for each grade, and each grade examines the common themes of exploring the Food Guide Pyramid through the food groups, learning about the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and learning the Fight BAC! concepts of clean, separate, cook, and chill. It's also important to note that physical activity is included in each lesson.


Food, Fun & Reading.
This is a nutrition and literacy education program for pre-kindergarten through grade 2 children. Children learn about food and nutrition by having children's storybooks with food-related themes read to them and then participating in hands-on nutrition activities. Each lesson includes nutritional objectives, background information for the instructor, guidelines for discussion before and after reading the story, nutrition lesson on the Food Guide Pyramid, list of supplies needed, supplemental activities, other books children might enjoy, Internet sites of interest, take home activity, recipes, and letters to parents. The curriculum may be purchased for $20 (includes shipping and handling). Contact: Diane Mincher, Middlebury, 1-800-956-1125, diane.mincher@uvm.edu.


Food Pyramid Creative Pockets for Educators (K-2)
http://www.creativepockets.com/
A learning tool for children ages 2 to 10 that gives the important nutritional message of eating right & being fit. Each apron comes complete with 17 Activity Cards with over 75 nutrition-based activities.


Food and Me (PreK-K), Food Time (Grade 1-2), Food Works (Grades 3-5)
http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/Resources/scholastic.html
Activity based program to build skills and motivate children to make healthy eating choices. The curriculum presents Team Nutrition's message across elementary school grade levels. Kits have been developed for PreK-K, Grades 1-2 and Grades 3-5. These Kits contain a teacher's guide, resource materials, student magazines, poster, take-home family newsletter and reproducible worksheets.


Healthy Choices for Kids: The "Healthy Choices for Kids"
http://www.healthychoices.org/
Activity Kit was designed to help kids and parents learn more about good nutrition.

Jump Into Foods and Fitness (JIFF)
http://web1.msue.msu.edu/cyf/youth/jiff/
Jump Into Foods and Fitness (JIFF) a new, research-based curriculum for adults and older teens to use with kids aged 8 to 11 (grades 3 to 5). "Jiff the Joey" sets the stage for each of the seven "Kangaroo Jumps" or sessions in JIFF. Fun nutrition, physical fitness and food safety learning activities are integrated into the program, which uses the Kid's Activity Pyramid and the Food Guide Pyramid.


Pyramid Café
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/educators/lessons-main.asp
Teaches children about good nutrition using fun, interactive activities. This program teaches second graders good eating habits, sound nutrition and basic Food Guide Pyramid Concepts.


Start Smart Eating & Reading
A fun-filled breakfast, nutrition & reading program for K-2nd grade students.Start Smart Eating & Reading combines nutrition education and literacy for an all-around healthy classroom curriculum. This fun-filled breakfast, nutrition, and reading program was designed to help students discover the importance of breakfast through reading and discussion of various children's books. Each of the four learning modules offers a no-cook food activity along with other classroom activities to reinforce messages about smart eating, while parent newsletters help deliver messages from the classroom to the home. The curriculum was prepared jointly by the 4-H Youth Development and Family and Community Development programs of the Oregon State University Extension Service and the Oregon Department of Education. Lesson plans, worksheets, and parent newsletter are available for free download at http://eesc.oregonstate.edu/agcomwebfile/EdMat/html/4-H/4-H6830L/startsmart.html

Building Better Bones
http://www.co.navajo.az.us/PubHlthSrvcs/Bones_Start_Page.aspx
This is a three part classroom program (Bone Up on Calcium, Bones—Move’em or Lose’em, Bone Up on Calcium at Fast Food Restaurants) is geared towards 5th grade students. Navajo County

California Children’s 5-a Day- Power Play! Campaign
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/cdic/cpns/powerplay/default.htm
This campaign is a public health initiative led by the California Department of Health Services and administered by the Public Health Institute in cooperation with the National 5 A Day Program. Its purpose is to motivate and empower California’s 9- to 11-year-old children to eat 3 to 5 cups of fruits and vegetables and get at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. These objectives are designed to improve children’s short-term health and reduce their long-term risk of chronic diseases, especially cancer, heart disease, and obesity. The Campaign is currently funded by the USDA Food Stamp Program to target children from food stamp eligible families.

Do More, Watch Less!
This is a toolkit for after school programs and youth serving organizations to encourage tweens (ages 10-14) to incorporate more screen-free activities into their lives while reducing the time they spend watching TV, surfing the internet, and playing video games. Developed by the California Obesity Prevention Initiative, California Department of Health Services, the toolkit was field-tested with, and designed specifically for tweens. The toolkit includes step-by-step instructions and handouts that guide tweens through hands-on activities, including: tracking the time they typically spend in front of a screen; embarking on a challenge to go screen-free for up to a week; setting a goal to engage in no more than 2 hours of screen-based activities per day; celebrating their efforts to reduce their screen-time. More information can be found at http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/cdic/copi/copiforms/tvtool.htm

Eat Fit – EatFit
http://eatfit.net/
Eat Fit – EatFit is a goal oriented intervention that challenges adolescents to improve their eating and fitness choices. This nine-lesson curriculum provides hands-on activities that teach students the skills they need to meet their goals. It is behaviorally focused and thus includes activities that help students to gain the insight and awareness required to change thier current food related behaviors. UC Davis Cooperative Extension.

Eat Smart. Play Hard™
http://www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhard/Collection/main.html
Eat Smart. Play Hard™ is about making America's children healthier. It's about practical suggestions that will help you motivate children and their caregivers to eat healthy and be active. The Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Campaign messages and materials are fun for children and informative for caregivers. To make your job easier, we have kid-tested the messages and based them on the Food Guide Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Eat, Move, Learn
http://cpanarizona.org/eat_move_learn.phtml
This is a multi-site (6 universities) trial investigating the effects of an innovative science-based "webquest" curriculum on weight and body composition in 6th grade boys and girls. The intervention will encourage energy expenditure (physical activity) and appropriate energy intake (healthy eating) within the framework of a science curriculum. Outcomes include activity, diet and body composition. CPAN investigators are guiding the development of the assessment protocol and activity intervention. Four schools and approximately 120 6th grade boys and girls will participate in this project in Tucson.

Bright Ideas for using the Eat Smart. Play Hard™ materials
Bright Ideas provide unique ways to add some punch to your nutrition education efforts! The latest edition, Bright Ideas 4 gives suggestions for making greeting cards, using the Power Panther Sticker, and showing the Video Messages. These and many other materials are available on the Eat Smart. Play Hard.TM web site at www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhard/Collection/main.html.

Healthy K.I.D.S.
http://www.childrenshealthfund.org
Created by clinicians from The Children’s Health Fund’s National Network, Healthy K.I.D.S. provides middle-school aged children with simple, engaging and culturally relevant health education materials on nutrition and fitness. The Healthy KIDS program consists of newsletters, corresponding lesson plans and parent guide.

Media Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active.
This is not a weight loss program, but rather is a health promotion program. It helps young people become critical, creative thinkers. Media-Smart Youth teaches them to analyze, evaluate, and create media messages--skills that can help them make smart and positive choices about nutrition and physical activity every day. Media-Smart Youth is an interactive after-school education program for young people ages 11 to 13. It is designed to help teach them about the complex media world around them, and how it can affect their health--especially in the areas of nutrition and physical activity. More information can be found at http://www.nichd.nih.gov/msy/

The Power of Choice
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/power_of_choice.html
The Power of Choice: Helping Youth Make Healthy Eating and Fitness Decisions. The Power of Choice was developed by HHS’ Food and Drug Administration and USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service. It is intended for after-school program leaders working with young adolescents. The publication contains 10 interactive sessions, a recipe booklet, parent letter, nutrition facts cards, and a CD with additional activities.

Sports Nutrition Workshop: The Winning Edge: Nutrition for Fitness and Sport
http://ag.arizona.edu/NSC/new/sn/synopsis.htm
This Instructor Manual contains current information on the fundamentals of sports nutrition. These fundamentals include information on how nutrients work in the body to supply fuel for athletes in training. The Manual presents the VIM Plan as a fundamental part of a winning nutrition plan. This plan includes the principles of Variety, Individuality, & Moderation in choosing foods and fluids for an athlete's diet. University of Arizona, Department of Nutritional Sciences.

VERB™ It’s What You Do.
www.VERBnow.com and www.VERBparents.com.
The VERB™ campaign encourages young people ages 9–13 (tweens) years to be physically active every day. The campaign combines paid advertising, marketing strategies, and partnership efforts to reach the distinct audiences of tweens and adults/influencers.

The LEARN program for Weigh Control (Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitudes, Relationships, Nutrition).
http://www.thelifestylecompany.com
To improve the quality of person’s health and life by altering lifestyles, implementing exercise routines, adopting a positive attitude, establishing good relationships for support, and executing good nutrition. Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D. from Yale University.


Eating Right is Basic.
http://www.fcs.msue.edu/EFNEP/catalog/index.htm
This easy-to-use curriculum, incorporating the Food Guide Pyramid, food label information and food safety recommendations, is ideal for teaching adults how to choose and prepare healthy, low cost meals.

“What’s On Your Plate"
http://www.mcmassachusetts.com/active_achievers/willie.cfm
A Community Based Educational Program for Persons with Diabetes. Twelve clay-animation public service announcements, plus introductions from the multicultural purple host, Willie Munchright. Emphasizes the Food Guide Pyramid and the difference between "everyday" foods and "sometimes" foods. Society for Nutrition Education and the McDonald's Corporation.

WIN the Rockies (Wellness IN the Rockies)
http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/WinTheRockies/default.html
WIN the Rockies (Wellness IN the Rockies), was a four-year behavior-change consortium project which involved the University of Idaho, Montana State University, the University of Wyoming, their extension services, their WWAMI Medical Education Programs, the Area Health Education Centers in Wyoming and Montana, along with other state organizations and community groups.

Am I Hungry. Michelle May
http://www.amihungry.com/book.shtml#h4healthy

Changing the Scene - Improving the School Nutrition Environment
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/changing.html
Changing the Scene - Improving the School Nutrition Environment is a tool kit that addresses the entire school nutrition environment from a commitment to nutrition and physical activity, pleasant eating experiences, quality school meals, other healthy food options, nutrition education and marketing the issue to the public.

Cooking with Kids.Use to teach children basic culinary skills, allow them to try a variety of healthy foods and begin forming positive food attitudes that last into adulthood. Contains teachers guide, recipes and activities. Suitable for pre-k through grade 6.
Oregon Dairy Council 1997

How to Teach Nutrition to Kids. Website and book.
This book promotes positive attitudes about food, fitness and body image. Features hundreds of hands-on nutrition education activities aimed at children ages 6-12. Author: Connie Evers. http://nutritionforkids.com/index.htm

H is for Healthy-- Weight Management for Kids. Michelle May. http://www.amihungry.com/book.shtml#h4healthy

Making It Happen! School Nutrition Success Stories.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/makingithappen.html
Making It Happen! School Nutrition Success Stories shares stories from 32 schools and school districts that have made innovative changes to improve the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages offered and sold on school campuses.

Motivating People To Be Physically Active.
http://www.exrx.net/Store/HK/MotivatingPeoplePhysActive.html
A comprehensive reference book describing methods for helping people change from inactive to active living. The behavior change methods are useful not only for healthy adults but also for individuals with chronic physical and psychological conditions. The renowned authors describe intervention programs for individuals and groups and in workplace and community settings. Bess Marcus, Leighann Forsyth.