Approved Curricula and Supporting Education Tools
The approved curricula for adult audiences are:
- All My Money
- Eat Smart, Live Strong
Nutrition Education for Older Adults is designed to improve fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity among 60-74 year olds participating in or eligible for FNS nutrition assistance programs. The USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) developed the intervention to help program providers and communities improve the health of a growing number of low-income older adults. The intervention is based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPyramid as well as a review of promising practices. - Eating Right - Operation Frontline
- Eating Right is Basic Enhanced and Eating Right is Basic 4
This curriculum guide is based on current food and nutrition recommendations of the United States Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration and other recognized national organizations. Using overviews and detailed lesson plans, it is useful for teaching low-income adults the basics of food nutrition and preparation with a limited budget. Besides lesson plans, information for the educators such as background knowledge, resources, and helpful hints for teaching productively, are also presented.
Email erib@msu.edu or call 517-353-9102 for an order form. - Eating Smart, Being Active
- Elder Nutrition and Food Safety
- La Cocina Saludable
- Loving Your Family, Feeding Their Future
- Money for Food
- Sisters In Health
FNEC has developed lessons plans that are indicated as approved supporting resources. Information on the FNEC Lesson Plans information is secured here.
The approved curricula for youth audiences are:
- Color Me Healthy
- Cooking Up Fun
The goals for the Cooking Up Fun! Series are to help children, ages 9 to 12, increase independent cooking skills, adopt healthy food choices, appreciate the science of cooking, and gain understanding about locally produced foods. These teaching tools were designed for 4-H clubs EFNEP, school-age child care programs, and other community effort to reach youth with nutrition information. To date, the following components in the series have been completed.
-A Pyramid of Snacks
The 75-page teaching guide features 16 recipes for easy-to-prepare snacks; also included are games, science experiments, food activities, and information sheets. The 19-minute video features four of the recipes being prepared by youth working with culinarian Barbara Lang.
-Muffins & More
The 68-page teaching guide features 14 recipes for muffins and other quick breads. Additional food activities reinforce skills related to reading recipes, food safety, and food ingredients science. Also included are information sheets and forms to facilitate planning and evaluating the cooking sessions
-Yeast Breads The 64-page teaching guide features 20 yeast recipes. A sample 6-session teaching plan includes more food activities to explore cultural history, ways of making dough, science, grains, nutrition, and creative fun. - Eat Fit
For ages 11-15. A teachers manual, magazine-style workbook, and interactive website (www.eatfit.net) support a 9-lesson sequential program. The program uses computer technology to assist adolescents with self-assessment and guided goal setting. - Eating Right for Teens
- Jump into foods and fitness
Designed to integrate adult and teen volunteers, parents, professionals and others with children ages 8 to 11 to help them develop healthier lifestyles that will improve their overall health via physical and nutrition-related activities.
JIFF Curriculum, Business Office
4-H Youth Development
Michigan State University Extension,
160 Agriculture Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1039
517-432-7629 - Kids Up Front
Curriculum approved for use with parents and their youth: Side by Side
Other Nutrition Education Resources
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans,2005
Download and/or order materials related to the Dietary Guidelines 2005. - Fight Bac!®
Fight Bac! ® is a national consumer food safety education campaign that emphasizes four basic food handling behaviors: cook, clean, separate and chill. It provides consumers and professionals with information to promote safe food handling practices. Lesson plans, consumer information and outreach strategies, teaching tools, and images of the Fight Bac! ® character can be downloaded or purchased from the website. - MyPyramid
Download MyPyramid materials including posters, handouts, worksheets. - MyPyramid for Kids
Download materials for children aged 6-11 to teach MyPyramid concepts. - Team Nutrition Website
Order hard copy materials for children aged 6-11 to teach MyPyramid concepts. - WIC Topics A - Z
WIC Works posts the MyPyramid information sheets, including the MyPyramid for Moms 3 fact sheets in English and Spanish.
