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NORTH CAROLINA NUTRITION EDUCATION AND
TRAINING (NET) PROGRAM

The North Carolina Nutrition Education and Training (NET) Program in the N.C. Division of Public Health works with numerous state and local-level partners to provide nutrition education resources for students, families, educators and food service personnel. The Nutrition Education and Training (NET) Program, strives to integrate mealtime and learning experiences to help children make informed food choices as part of a healthy lifestyle. The N.C. NET Program instructs educators in nutrition education, trains food service personnel in nutrition and nutrition education, develops educational materials and curricula, and supports healthful school environments through implementation of Local Wellness Policy.

N.C. NET Program Brochure
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N.C. NET Program Resources for Schools

Food For Thought
Food for Thought is a K-5 curriculum that allows you to teach the nutrition objectives of the Healthful Living Standard Course of Study while integrating the concepts of healthy eating and physical activity into Math and English Language Arts. Effective nutrition education can motivate and enable students to adopt healthful dietary patterns and healthy lifestyles. Food for Thought will allow you to deliver effective nutrition education.


Food For Thought: Making the Connection
Food for Thought: Making the Connection is comprised of four "Smart Strategies" based on MyPyramid for Kids to help cafeteria staff and teachers extend the Food for Thought curriculum to the cafeteria and home. The strategies promote healthy decision-making in a positive, fun and memorable way. Each strategy includes staff resources, student handouts (Cafeteria Connections) and family handouts (Fit Foundations).


Fruit and Veggie Fun for Every Season
Not only are fruits and vegetables nutritious, delicious and come in lots of varieties and forms, but they also provide many health benefits. They are important for every age group. Preparing and eating more of them really does matter, both now and in the future. Fruit and Veggie Fun for Every Season was developed to help you teach the young children in your life about the importance of eating fruits and veggies every day. Fruits and veggies bring to young children a rainbow of bright colors, fun shapes and unique textures from which to learn. The booklet includes:

  • Tips for buying, storing and fixing in-season fruits and veggies.
  • Simple and fun recipes that children can help prepare. For more recipes and tips using fruits and veggies, visit www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov.
  • Activity pages for children and adults to work on together.
  • Ideas for ways that adults can help children enjoy the many wonderful tastes of fruits and veggies.
  • Information on produce grown in North Carolina and the seasons that they are available.
  • A list of county fairs where you can learn more about North Carolina-grown produce.
  • Young children are at the perfect age to learn about healthy eating and preparing food. Learning about fruits and veggies is easy and fun, and the health benefits will last a lifetime.


Fruit and Veggie Lesson Plans for Grades K-5
These lesson plans are designed to help you effortlessly build fruit and veggie nutrition education into your classroom. To ease integration of the lessons into your classroom, this K-5 curriculum combines fruit and veggie education with Math and English Language Arts activities. A Math and English Language Arts Objectives Quick Reference summarizes the objectives addressed in each lesson. Teacher resources are included in an Introduction and Resources Section. You will also find a section called Classroom Activities for additional ideas on promoting fruits and veggies with your students.


Fruit and Veggie Nutrition Education Resources for Grades K-5
These materials help you effortlessly build fruit and veggie nutrition education into your classrooms, cafeterias and communities. Your role modeling and positive interactions with students and their families can set the stage for lifelong healthy eating behaviors. The resources are grouped in the following sections: Ideas for Use of the Resources; Success Stories; Presentations, Resources, Web Sites; Resources for Cafeteria Staff; Resources for Families; Graphics; Media; and Evaluations.


National Nutrition Month Handouts
National Nutrition Month® is a nutrition education and information campaign, created by the American Dietetic Association, which is celebrated annually in March. The campaign focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. The National Nutrition Month handouts can be used to promote healthy eating and active living for students, school staff and families.


Students Succeed with School Meals: The Healthy, Low-Cost Choice
This is a promotional tool kit designed for use by Child Nutrition professionals in North Carolina. The items are intended to promote the school meals program to families, teachers and principals. The tool kit was developed after conducting focus groups with these three audiences and getting input from managers, supervisors and directors. Materials and messages reflect the needs of all the groups. The kit contains the following: Monthly Menu Templates and Newsletters, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), Power Point Presentations, Fact Sheets, Brochure, Eat Smart Move More Messages for Kids, Menu Ideas, Media Packet, Sample Display and Tools for Building Community Partnerships.


Successful Students Eat Smart and Move More
Successful Students Eat Smart, Move More is a social marketing intervention designed to create a "buzz" around Local Wellness Policy among school board members, superintendents, School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) chairs and PTA members so that policies will be implemented, evaluated and supported by the larger community. The materials are divided into five sections:

  1. Speaker Handouts from the March 2008 Spring Forward with Local Wellness Policy workshops;
  2. Advocacy Tools;
  3. Community Outreach;
  4. Evaluation; and
  5. Training and Presentations.


Links to Additional Educational Resources

Links to additional educational resources related to after school programs, food safety, nutrition, nutrition education, physical activity, and school gardens have been collected and made available. Links to related sites are provided only as a courtesy to our Internet readers. No claim is made as to the accuracy of any information presented on other Internet sites and no assumption of responsibility

 

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