National Health Education Standards

Organizers addressed:
CH = Consumer Health
NUT = Nutrition
PH = Personal Health
PoD = Prevention/Control of Disease

Body Systems Kit: PH PoD (grades K-8) Props within this health kit reveal elementary concepts in the study of the human body, including skeletal/muscular, digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and nervous systems. General background information, activity guides, and an Interactive Whiteboard Chart on Breathing are included.

Nutrition & You Kit: NUT (grades 1-6) Get a taste of the new MyPyramid personal nutrition tool while learning to create healthy meals based on different food groups. Lesson plans include how to identify and interpret information on nutrition labels. This thematic teaching kit is modeled after The Cleveland Museum of Natural History "You Are What You Eat" Class.
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Sugar Busters Activity: CH PH (grades K-4) Activity based kit equipped with a collapsible 3ft tall by 6ft wide felt presentation board. This item includes supplies for both the Sugar Busters and the Calorie Jump-a-thon Activities. Students will be engaged while learning that particular common foods have more sugar than others. Students will also get the opportunity to roll super large dice and then have to briefly exercise to work off the sugar-dense food they just "consumed."