2000 Supplement - Elementary (K-6)

Kids favorite food! You can present the nutrition benefits of pizza in a fun and entertaining lesson through music, literature and hands-on activities. The lessons are fun, easy to use and include materials to present a 30-minute lesson with minimal preparation. The basic lesson contains everything to teach that lesson.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

Kids will learn the nutritional benefits of bread, how wheat is grown, harvested and prepared into foods. They will also learn the importance of working together through stories and hands-on activities. The lessons are fun, easy to use and include materials to present a 30-minute lesson with minimal preparation. The basic lesson contains everything to teach that lesson.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

1999

Motivate students with math lessons based on real life problem-solving situations with food. Even the most hard to manage students are interested in the lesson when something worthwhile is being asked, solved and eaten.

AUDIENCE: Early Elementary

A fun-filled tour of factual and lively text about cows, milking and milk processing. Full-color illustrations.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

Everyone's favorite! Kids learn nutrition benefits of potatoes, how they are grown, harvested and prepared through stories and books. Lots of great hands-on activity sheets. The lessons are fun, easy to use and include materials to present a 30-minute lesson with minimal preparation. The basic lesson contains everything to teach that lesson.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

1995

Food brings people together. Whether for a grand holiday feast or an ordinary weekday dinner, people in every culture gather to share meals. Although the dining circumstances may vary and the foods we eat certainly differ in appearance and flavor, most foods eaten throughout the world have in common the most basic ingredients. Each chapter in this Totline book features a different type of food and provides examples of how it is prepared in different cultures. Children learn best through their senses. By seeing, touching, smelling and tasting foods from near and far, they learn to appreciate diversity.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Elementary Parents

1998

Oliver's grandparents did it again! This time Oliver is eating fruit salad and loves it. This funny book with vivid illustrations is sure to entertain and educate young children ages 3-6 years.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

1995

A fresh and clever approach to introducing kids to eating and growing vegetables. A great story with wonderful artwork. Oliver visits his grandfather to discover and eat other vegetables besides French fries.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

1998

Operation Food Safety, a public-private partnership in Arkansas, developed and compiled this curriculum. The goal is to teach students the importance of food safety and measures they can take to ensure that the food they eat or prepare is safe. Each lesson has activity sheets for the student that reinforce concepts and make learning about food safety fun.

AUDIENCE: Elementary Child Care

1990

A funny easy to read Halloween story for 3-7 year old children. Kids are entertained by the perky pumpkin.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

This book will help children understand the importance of healthful eating. A charming clever approach to introducing children to healthy food choices.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

1998

This Dairy Council program teaches primary grade children good eating habits, sound nutrition and the Food Guide Pyramid. The Pyramid Café is easy to teach, fun to learn, hands-on, accurate, classroom-tested and age appropriate. It tells the story of five friends who open a restaurant and teach other children about good nutrition. Supporting student workbooks can be ordered from the Oregon Dairy Council at (503) 229-5033.

AUDIENCE: Early Elementary

1996

This colorful Dairy Council game promotes breakfast to elementary school children as they travel the highway and byways of good nutrition. Each game includes a laminated game mat, four cars, a die and three sets of game cards categorized by difficulty. Use the easy questions with young children and the tougher ones with upper elementary.

AUDIENCE: Elementary

1992

This Totline book is filled with recipes that are easy to prepare using common ingredients and utensils. The recipes require no sugar, honey or artificial sweeteners. The recipes are seasonally appropriate so they can be a learning experience as well as a fun time for young children.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Elementary Parents

1994

Snacktime is a natural time for extending learning and the recipes in this Totline book make it easy for you to do that. Using the book's nine different topic areas, ranging from shapes to colors to cooperation, you will find fun and easy ways to encourage your children's learning during snacktime. Each snack recipe also includes ideas for having your children help prepare the snack. Working together provides a great opportunity to talk about and practice good hygiene and food safety.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Elementary Parents

1996

32 hands-on activities that link nutrition to all major curriculum areas, including language arts, math, science, music, social awareness, arts, crafts, indoor and outdoor games, and special snacks. Each activity contains skill descriptions, teacher directions and reproducible handouts.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

Explore everything from a tomato's origin to growing various types of tomatoes. Includes nutrition information along with two kid-friendly tomato recipes.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

Beautiful writing with illustrations explains how a corn seed becomes a tortilla. Workers till the soil, operate the clanking machinery of the factory and drive the trucks to deliver the tortillas back into the hands that will plant the yellow seeds. Specify English or Spanish version.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

1996

This book introduces children to 60 recipes from around the world. Each recipe (10 per continent) includes: kitchen tools needed, ingredients, directions for food preparation and an interesting food fact, as well as a cultural fact and activity. Kids cook everything from Japanese Teriyaki Chicken Wings to New Orleans Bread Pudding.

AUDIENCE: Elementary Parents

1999

This book written by Grace Lin tells the story of a little girl and her mother who dig, plant and water their garden. They do things differently than the neighbors. And when their plants grow, they look different. The neighbors' flowers look beautiful and the little girl thinks their own vegetables are just plain ugly. But when harvest time comes, mom knows just what to do. Discover the magic that grows in a vegetable garden.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

1996

Six delightful vegetable stories about a potato, broccoli, mushroom, celery, tomato and corn that will make kids smile and learn.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

Kids will learn the nutrition benefits of vegetable through music, stories and hands-on activities. The lessons are fun, easy to use and include materials to present a 30-minute lesson with minimal preparation. The basic lesson contains everything to teach that lesson.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

1994

A Rookie Reader About Science book that explains types of vegetable plants and parts, how they are grown, harvested and prepared with full color photos and easy to read facts.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

1998

This book explains the importance and role of vitamins and minerals using fantastic full color photos and easy to read facts for young readers ages 7-9 years.

AUDIENCE: Early Elementary

A short story for the emergent reader about the parts of the plants we eat.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

1998

Each title in this science series tells the story of a food. Using clear text and striking photos, the books provide a look at foods around the world - how they are grown, made and eaten. Great photos promote an early interest in learning about food. Separate books cover peanuts, potatoes, corn, rice, milk, peas, oranges, eggs, bread and bananas.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

Everything about wheat from how it is grown, harvested, milled and made into products for the market. Includes a kid-friendly wheat recipe.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary

FORMAT: 48-page book

A short story about foods grown and sold around the world.

AUDIENCE: Child Care Early Elementary