Curriculum Resources - Resources for Parents & Educators

How to Grow a School Garden:
A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers

By Ardeb Bucklin-Sporer and Rachel Kathleen Pringle

Most children today are disconnected from agriculture, nutrition and the natural world. A school garden provides an outdoor classroom that cultivates an awareness of our finite resources, reinforces values of environmental stewardship, helps students understand concepts of nutrition and health, and connects children to the natural world.The first half of this book is about creating and developing the garden space, while the second half provides guidance for building and sustaining an accessible, inexpensive school garden program over time. Packed with strategies, to-do lists, detailed lesson plans, easy recipes, and tricks of the trade for grades K-8, this is the complete school-garden handbook for parents, teachers and administrators. Softcover, 223 pages. Ages: Adult.

How to Grow a School Garden WP-0002......$24.95

Health Education Ideas and Activities:
24 Dimensions of Wellness for Adolescents

By Roger F. Puza

Discover fresh, cost-effective, and multifaceted ways to teach health education at the middle and high school levels. Grounded in the real world and tested in classrooms, each lesson idea and teaching tool is ready to use with minimal preparation time. Includes 139 lesson ideas spanning 24 health and wellness topics including nutrition and body image, fitness, resiliency factors, mental health and more. You can also use the materials to reinforce or expand your existing physical education curriculum to drive home the importance of health. With over 200 handouts and 20 tests, a CD-ROM containing all the reproducibles and a lesson idea finder for quickly locating the content you need, this will be one resource you’ll use again and again. Softcover, 243 pages and CD-ROM. Ages 11-18.

Health Education Ideas and Activities HK-9824......$38.00

Promoting Physical Activity: A Guide for Community Action

By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Changing people's behavior is never easy, but this practical, logically organized guide will help you do so. Part I of the guide, Foundations for Physical Activity Promotion, clearly explains the benefits of physical activity and provides physical activity recommendations. Part II, Approaches and Interventions for Changing Physical Activity Behavior, covers three general approaches to promoting physical activity— informational, social and behavioral, and environmental and policy—as well as eight types of interventions that research shows are effective in group and community settings. In addition to the nuts and bolts of planning, in Part III, Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Your Intervention Program, you’ll explore topics such as creating effective partnerships, setting program objectives, and measuring program success. Finally, the book's Resources for Action section contains website addresses and contact information for dozens of relevant agencies, organizations, and programs across the country, as well as other resources that will help you offer successful physical activity promotional programs. This second edition has been fully updated to reflect advances made in this evolving field. It translates current research into accessible practice, laying out all the information you need to create a physical activity promotion program or intervention that meets your community’s needs. Softcover, 262 pages. All Ages.

Promoting Physical Activity: A Guide for Community Action HK-2084......$44.00

Physical Activity Interventions in Children and Adolescents

By Dianne S. Ward, Ruth P. Saunders and R. Pate

This book is a resource for professionals in schools, health departments, recreation centers, state agencies and nonprofits interested in developing programs to increase regular physical activity and decrease sedentary behavior. First, the book provides an orientation to activity in young people and a clear, reader-friendly overview of theories of behavior change that can be used in developing physical activity interventions. Next it describes documented interventions that have been designed for a variety of settings and discusses their strengths, weaknesses and level of success. Finally, it lays out tools, ideas and methods for those who want to develop, implement and assess their own intervention or want to adapt an existing intervention for their needs. An appendix includes many sample forms to use in designing and evaluating your own interventions. Softcover, 270 pages. Ages 2-18.

Physical Activity Interventions in Children and Adolescents HK-1323......$38.00

Nutrition Education Curriculum Guide
(A complete 1st-6th Grade Curriculum!)

By Connie Evers, MS, RD

New from 24 Carrot Press is a nutrition education tool which outlines a complete 1st - 6th grade curriculum that is integrated, behavior-based and sequential. The guide is based on the books How to Teach Nutrition to Kids, Nutrition Fun with Brocc & Roll, and the MyPyramid Food Guide. CD-Rom.

Nutrition Education Curriculum Guide CD-Rom 24C-8000......$9.95

Designed to educate both parents and little ones, this informative kit introduces the basics of healthy eating and focuses in on the benefits of a colorful array of nutrient rich “super foods.” Tucked into a handy pocket on the inside front cover are 16 easy-to-follow healthy recipes on 8 large wipe-clean cards featuring dishes like Sweet Potato and Carrot Fries, Fruity Chicken and Rice, and Secret Vegetable Pasta. Includes a 5-a-Day Reward Chart and incentive stickers. Hardcover, 18 pages. Ages 2-5.

Meal Time Training Pack MPS-5516......$12.95

This booklet offers practical tips for how parents of babies and toddlers can help their children learn healthy eating habits and how to use mealtimes to support a child’s overall healthy development, including social and emotional development. Softcover, 11 pages. Pack of 20 booklets.

Healthy from the Start (Saludable desde el comienzo) English GH-7962......$30.00 Spanish GH-9054......$30.00

All parents want to do the very best for the long-term health and well-being of their children, and nutrition plays a major role in that process. Drawing on the latest medical and dietary research, this book presents a complete and sensible nutrition program that can help you promote and maintain excellent health and good eating habits for your children throughout their lives. Covering all stages of childhood from birth through adolescence, this book provides detailed nutritional guidelines that have been carefully drafted by an expert panel, and includes 91 delicious recipes. Softcover, 258 pages.

Healthy Eating for Life For Children JW-6216......$16.95

An essential resource for parents and child care providers, Meals without Squeals finds a balance between the need for convenience and the need for providing food that is good for kids. With a straightforward approach to topics like children's growth, common feeding problems, and how to offer children positive experiences with food, you will also find over 80 child-tested recipes, guidance for teaching food literacy to children, organizational forms and checklists, and an appendices with more information and resources. Softcover, 288 pages. For all ages.

Meals without Squeals IPG-3004......$18.95

Spend precious time with your family, have fun and get fit! Kids love to play and this book is chock full of games, activities and sports that are so much fun kids will learn first-hand that exercising should be fun, not another chore. This must-have resource includes a helpful, searchable chart to assist you in selecting the perfect game based on age, intensity level, weather conditions and more. Softcover, 184 pages. All ages.

The Family Fitness Fun Book RH-1457......$16.95

This book focuses on two of the most important concerns surrounding childhood obesity: establishing patterns of daily physical activity and healthy eating habits. It offers solutions, strategies for change, and practical ideas for getting children moving and eating well. Includes more than 50 developmental exercises and activities for fitness and cardiorespiratory endurance; 20 fun family activities; 16 motor skill activities; 21 yoga poses and games; 18 dance activities; 10 top nutritional guidelines for parents and teachers; tips for modifying traditional recipes to lower saturated fat, sodium and sugar content; and even some heart-healthy kids’ recipes. By reaching children in their formative years you can help them develop positive behaviors that will last a lifetime. Softcover, 229 pages. Ages 2-6.

Active Start For Healthy Kids HK-281X......$19.95