In honor of National Nutrition Month®, MyPlate is sharing resources to help you bite into a healthy lifestyle everywhere you go! This blog highlights resources for encouraging a healthy lifestyle in the classroom. Learn about healthy eating at home, work, and throughout the community here.
MyPlate can be used to teach students of all ages about healthy eating. Start early and introduce preschoolers to fruits and vegetables through garden-themed nutrition education using the Grow It, Try It, Like It! Nutrition Education Kit. Elementary school teachers can integrate nutrition education into other subjects including Math, Science, English Language Arts, and Health with Serving Up MyPlate: A Yummy Curriculum.
Additional kid-friendly activities can be found at MyPlate Kids’ Place. At MyPlate Kids’ Place, kids can take the MyPlate Champions pledge and print a personalized certificate stating their commitment to eating healthy and being active each and every day. Students will also love Blast Off, an interactive online game which challenges them to fuel their MyPlate spaceship with smart food choices from each of the food groups and 60 minutes of physical activity to fly to Planet Power.
MyPlate also offers resources to support older students in adopting a healthy lifestyle they can maintain into adulthood. High-school level lesson plans using the interactive tool, SuperTracker, encourage teens to think critically about their food and physical activity choices. Meanwhile college students around the country are championing healthy eating with peer-to-peer education through the MyPlate On Campus initiative. Learn more about this effort and get inspired by our MyPlate On Campus Ambassadors at Rutgers University and University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Although National Nutrition Month is coming to a close, the resources featured this month can be utilized year-round in schools, homes, the workplace, and in your community. Find these and many more MyPlate resources on our website!
