CalFresh Healthy Living, UC

Lesson plans align to education standards and support SEL competencies. Includes "brain breaks" to incorporate physical activity. Importance of eating food-group foods, beverages, healthy snacks, importance of breakfast, and farm to you. Curriculum is free to California teachers.
Available in digital and in print.

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Dairy Council of CA

Link:
HealthyEating.org/1stGrade

An interdisciplinary program combining academic achievement, gardening, nutrition experiences, physical activity, and school and family engagement. $56 for purchase from website.

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Junior Master Gardener/ Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

Link:
http://jmgkids.us/lgeg/

Teaches the world of gardening with hands-on activities, worksheets, rhythms, and reading passages formatted for standardized tests. Includes life skills and career exploration, culminates with service learning projects and certification as a Junior Master Gardener.

There are other curriculum that are not nutrition focused, however, they can be used to support direct education activities. These curriculum are: 'Literature in the Garden' and 'Health and Nutrition from the Garden'.

The Healthy Kids Out of School Curriculum encourages physical activity and healthy eating habits in 4th and 5th graders (modifications can be made for older kids). The lessons encourage fruits and vegetables for snacks, water as the beverage of choice, and new ways to increase active time to help kids reach the 60 minutes-a-day recommendation. Link provides free download.

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Tufts University

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Healthy Choices in Motion is part of the Shaping Healthy Choices Program. Healthy Choices in Motion allows students to explore a comprehensive set of physical activity concepts, including the benefits of physical activity, recommendations across the lifespan, the five components of physical fitness, why doing a variety of physical activity is important, and what being physical activity means to you. Module activities are structured around a five-step experiential learning cycle. 5 modules with Family newsletters. Free download from website.

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Curriculum teaches teens in 6th grade and above how to make healthy food choices and prepare healthy meals and snacks for themselves and families and friends. Hands-on instruction.

Virtual components have been added. 
 

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Share Our Strength
CA contact The Food Trust: [email protected] 

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https://learning.thefoodtrust.org/cooking-matters/ 

Common Threads teaches kids and families to cook for a healthier life by empowering them to make healthy choices in the kitchen and beyond, and to be change agents in their schools and communities. Curriculum is available for free and now contains an online education component. $25 for 3 handbooks.

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Common Bytes

Link:
https://teach.commonthreads.org/page/curriculum

Cooking Skills and World Cuisine is designed to increase nutrition knowledge, culinary skills, liking of vegetables, vegetable consumption, and communication about healthy eating between students and families. Each lesson explores a different country’s cuisine and teaches young chefs how to follow a recipe, prepare and cook ingredients, and leave the kitchen as clean as they found it. Students that have completed the Cooking Skills and World Cuisine program are able to cook a balanced healthy meal that includes whole grains, lean protein, fruits, and vegetables.

6 hands on, interactive lessons for 8-12 year olds using nutrition activities, food prep, games, goal setting and family newsletter to learn about healthy eating and active living. Free download from website.

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Cornell

Link:
http://fnec.cornell.edu/for-partners/curricula/chfff/

An inquiry- based science and nutrition program where students learn to use science to make food and activity decisions. Cost to purchase.