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Curricula and Education Resources
Pre-School - K Youth Audiences

• Color Me Healthy – North Carolina Extension

Program developed to reach limited-resource children ages four and five with fun, interactive learning opportunities on physical activity and healthy eating.  (English & Spanish)

• Fight Bac – Partnership for Food Safety Education

Materials teach food safety using experiments to help children discover the science behind food safety. 

• Food Groupies – Food Groupie, Inc

Encourages children to eat a variety of foods from the five USDA approved food groups in an entertaining way. Children learn about good nutrition through a series of visual and hands-on activities featuring the five friendly Food Groupie characters.

• Food, Fun and Reading – University of Vermont Extension
   

• Food, Fun, and Reading - MyPyramid Update, September 2005 (PDF)

Children learn about food and nutrition by reading children's storybooks with food-related themes and then participate in hands-on nutrition activities.

• Arkansas Education Frameworks

• Food Fun and Reading - Lesson 1 Bread Group and Snacks
   
• Food Fun and Reading - Lesson 2 Fruit and Vegetable Group
   
• Food Fun and Reading - Lesson 3 Milk Group
   
• Food Fun and Reading - Lesson 4 Meat Group
   
• Food Fun and Reading - Lesson 5 Breakfast

• Food, Fun, and Reading Curriculum & Education Standards

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