Health and nutrition in schools for students

Building Healthy Kids:
Lessons, Links, and Resources

By Alan Haskvitz, national motivational speaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Haskvitz

How to Build Healthy Kids
http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/food_choice.html

Food related links for building integrated lessons
http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/veggies.html

Food safety
http://www.reacheverychild.com/science/agriculture/safety.html

Agriculture and food
http://www.eeweek.org/

Agriculture lessons and free resources
http://www.reacheverychild.com/science/agriculture/index.html

Conservation links
http://www.reacheverychild.com/science/agriculture/conservation.html

California Women in Agriculture
http://www.cawomen4ag.com/

Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agriculture Library, USDA
www.nalusda.gov/fnic

The following organizations are agriculture related.
Financial assistance for garden projects

Gardens for Growing People
http://www.svn.net/growpepl/

Nutrition Fact Game
www.freshstarts.com

USDA for Kids
http://www.usda.gov/news/usdakids/index.html

California Women in AgricultureMy Farm Book is interesting.
Write for additionalsources.
http://www.cawomen4ag.com/

CyberFarm GardenEverything you need for your garden.
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~farm/garden.html

Agriculture Heritage from colonial days
http://www.campsilos.org/

Cream of the CropNewsletter plus a resource guide toeducational materials about agriculture. Just aboutthe best resource for all grade levels. GreatMaterials.
http://www.cfaitc.org

Food and Nutrition Information Center, NationalAgriculture Library, USDA
www.nalusda.gov/fnic

Organization listNot all are linked, but using name provided and searchengine can be quite rewarding for student samples andlesson ideas.
http://www.farmworld.com/assn/index.html

AgNIC is a guide to quality agricultural informationon the Internet as selected by the NationalAgricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, andother institutions.
http://www.agnic.org/

Just for kids recopies
http://www.justkidsrecipes.com/index.shtml

Home Economics lessons
http://www.easyfunschool.com/IndexHomeEc.html

You are What You EatHave them take the Healthy Fridge test and others andthan decide what to do.
http://www.healthyfridge.org/

Food safety
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/foodsci/agentinfo/

Nutrition
http://primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/library/nutrition/nutritn.htm

Food and Nutrition Information Center, NationalAgriculture Library, USDA
http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic

American Horticultural Society
http://www.ahs.org/youth_gardening/index.htm

List of master gardeners
http://www.mastergardeners.org/

United States Department of Agriculture
http://www.usda.gov

California Strawberry Commission
http://www.calstrawberry.com/

The ALACA Company They have a kit about cotton that may be of value.
http://www.cottonsjourney.com/

National Cotton Council of America
http://www.cotton.org/pubs/cottoncounts/resources.cfm

Grains Nutrition Information Center
www.wheatfoods.org/

An excellent bibliography of gardening books and recipes and a seed catalog.
www.cooksgarden.com

International Fertilizer Association
www.fertilizer.org

Botany Links
www.lerc.nasa.gov/Other_Groups/K-12/John/botany.htm

Botanical Gardens
www.bbg.org

Earth Garden Sources
www.bonus.com/bonus/list/Spring_99.html?referrer=90331A

4-H Youth
Department of Agriculture
http://www.4-h.org/resources/

United States Department of Agriculture.
www.usda.gov

National Corn Growers
www.ncga.com

Peanut Butter Lovers
http://www.peanutbutterlovers.com/

Peanut Butter Recipes
http://www.brownielocks.com/peanutbutter.html

How does a Peanut Grow?
http://www.chinapeanutseller.com/faq_1.htm

History of Peanut
http://www.texomapeanut.com/inn/peanut%20history.htm

American Peanut Council
http://www.aboutpeanuts.com/educ.html

Peanut Butter Institute
Education materials mainly about diet
http://www.peanut-institute.org/EducationalMaterials.html

Peanut Butter and Jelly Archeology
An interesting lesson on layering.
http://www.nps.gov/hocu/html/peanut_butter.htm

National Peanut Board
http://www.nationalpeanutboard.com/document_325.asp

For more free educational materials go to
http://www.reachverychild.com/