Michigan Team Nutrition Resources

Michigan Team Nutrition Resources are provided to Michigan schools enrolled in Team Nutrition.

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Alternatives To Foods As Rewards
Food is often used to reward good behavior. Unfortunately, the reward often undermines nutrition education and encourages overconsumption of foods high in fat or sugar. Here you will find alternative rewards suggestion. They not only encourage positive behavior in the classroom, but in the lunchroom as well.

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Every Body is Good
Every Body is Good Curriculum (EBIG) is a set of lessons designed for use by any teacher to promote healthy weight and a positive body image in students. There are two 20-minute lessons for each grade K-6, two lessons for 7th and 8th grades, and two lessons for 9th-12th grades.

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Fact Sheet 2002-03
Fact Sheet 2003-04
Looking for a handout to convince administrators and others to create a healthy school environment? These fact sheets contain results from schools awarded past Michigan Team Nutrition Healthy School Environment Mini-Grants.

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Family Bookbag
The Eat Healthy. Play Hard. Read More. Family Bookbag is for children in grades K-2 and can be used in classrooms, out-of-school-time programs, home-visiting programs or any other programs that serve children in this age group. The Family Bookbag program was created so that children and their families can have fun reading together at home, while at the same time learning about eating healthy and being physically active.
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Healthy Kids Healthy Weight
Tips for "Families with Kids of all Shapes and Sizes - These fact sheets were desiged to provide tips for families of school-age children on eathing healthy and being physically active. This publication was a collaboration between the Michigan Department of Community Health and the Michigan Department of Education with input from a variety of organizations. The fact sheets can be downloaded by choosing the topic of choice from the list provided at the Web site.

Healthy Reading Lesson Plans
Would You like to Teach Nutrition and Reading at the Same Time? It’s Easy When you use Children’s Books!

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Logo
Download the Team Nutrition logo in either full color or grayscale for use on your school's Team Nutrition promotions.

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Michigan Team Nutrition Booklist
Our booklist contains short, one-paragraph annotations for over 300 books about food, healthy eating, and physical activity for children in pre-school through third grade. A 23-page, Search-By-Theme cross-reference section allows the user to search for books related to a specific theme such as Fruits and Vegetables, Dairy, Breakfast, ABCs, Pizza, Soup-making, Outside Activity, Counting and Math, Spanish Translations and more.

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Nutrition Education Activity List
This list has numerous suggestions for nutrition education activities for the classroom, cafeteria, school-wide, for school staff and at home. The list was developed by the Michigan Department of Education and Michigan Department of Community Health for use by the 2004-05 Fruit and Vegetable grantee schools.

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PowerPoint Presentations
Team Nutrition Grant Training, October 3, November 1, 2006
Elementary Nutrition Education Training

Middle and High School Education Training

Wrap Up

Healthy School Action Tool Facilitator Power Point - This presentation is for trained HSAT facilitators to use when working with school teams and was presented to you during your HSAT facilitator training. This will help your team understand the need to make the case for creating a healthy school environment and how to accomplish this.
Dayle Hayes, MS, RD, is an award winning author, educator and pioneer dietitian in electronic communications. She has been the keynote speaker at many Michigan conferences, including the 2002 Michigan Team Nutrition Workshop and the 2005 Eat Healthy + Play Hard = Smart Students conference. This series of PowerPoint presentations outline the benefits of promoting nutrition in schools, provide information getting started and building a strong team, as well as highlight facts and research supporting the need for school nutrition programs.

Children's Health: A Call to Action, What Schools Can Do - This is a "Show to Go" presentation designed to educate school boards, school administration, teachers, nurses, counselors, food service, coaches, community organizations, parent groups, and others on current overweight and obesity trends, the challenge ahead and a call to action. This is a great tool to use when educating others on the importance of addressing children's health and seeking action. The presentation is designed to take about 15-25 minutes and includes speaker notes. There are presenter and audience evaluations. Please complete the presenter evaluation and fax back to the number listed on the form. This presentation was developed by West Michigan Action for Healthy Kids, March 2005.

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Promote Healthy Weight In Children
A comprehensive look at children weight problems and a guide to what Michigan is doing to promote healthy food choices and physical activity for children.

File Type: Adobe PDF , read-only Size: 285K
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Pyramids Between the Pages
The Pyramids Between the Pages Mini-pack is a take-and-teach curriculum that links the development of beginning literacy skills with nutrition and physical activity education and promotion. The curriculum is designed for use with children in grades K-2, in school, in an out-of-school setting, or in a community-based program.

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http://www.pbp.fcs.msue.msu.edu

Pyramids Between the Pages for the Young Child Leader's Guide
Pyramids Between the Pages for the Young Child Leader's Guide provides four nutrition education lessons for children ages 2 to 5 that use books with positive messages about food or physical activity. The lessons also teach early literacy skills and can be used by parents, caregivers and/or educators.

School Meals Handout
The MDE School Meals fact sheet is designed to assist shcool foodservice professionals share the "story" of school meals in Michigan. The first page highlights just how many children participate and are nurished by the National School Lunch Program. The second page highlights how school meals fit in with the "other" venues in schools where food is sold and given away.

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School Menus Made Easy
School Menus Made Easy is a collection of up-to-date nutrition-related tips, bits, and blurbs developed for school foodservice directors, teachers, school health coordinators, administrators, county extension staff members and anyone else who is interested in helping to educate and spread the word to families that nutrition and physical activity are important!

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State School Board Policies
Policy on Healthy Food and Beverages

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State School Board Policies
Policy on Quality Physical Education

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State School Board Policies
Policy on Coordinated School Health Programs

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Tips and Tools
Tips and Tools to Help Implement Michigan's Healthy Food and Beverage Policy - This resource was developed by Michigan Action for Healthy Kids to help schools implement the policy passed by the Michigan State Board of Education.

Tips and Tools to Promote Physical Education and Physical Activity. This resource was developed by Michigan Action For Healthy Kids to help schools implement the Quality Physical Education Policy passed by the Michigan State Board of Education.

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For more Team Nutrition resources, check out the National Team Nutrition Web site.

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Alternatives To Foods As Rewards Food is often used to reward good behavior. Unfortunately, the reward often undermines nutrition education and encourages overconsumption of foods high in fat or sugar. Here you will find alternative rewards suggestion. They not only encourage positive behavior in the classroom, but in the lunchroom as well.
File Type: Adobe PDF, read-only		Size: 137K	Download PDF Reader


Every Body is Good Every Body is Good Curriculum (EBIG) is a set of lessons designed for use by any teacher to promote healthy weight and a positive body image in students. There are two 20-minute lessons for each grade K-6, two lessons for 7th and 8th grades, and two lessons for 9th-12th grades.
File Type: Adobe PDF, read-only		Size: 137K	Download PDF Reader

Fact Sheet 2002-03 Fact Sheet 2003-04 Looking for a handout to convince administrators and others to create a healthy school environment? These fact sheets contain results from schools awarded past Michigan Team Nutrition Healthy School Environment Mini-Grants.
File Type: Adobe pdf	Size: 98.3KB	Acrobat Reader required

Family Bookbag The Eat Healthy. Play Hard. Read More. Family Bookbag is for children in grades K-2 and can be used in classrooms, out-of-school-time programs, home-visiting programs or any other programs that serve children in this age group. The Family Bookbag program was created so that children and their families can have fun reading together at home, while at the same time learning about eating healthy and being physically active.

Healthy Kids Healthy Weight Tips for "Families with Kids of all Shapes and Sizes - These fact sheets were desiged to provide tips for families of school-age children on eathing healthy and being physically active. This publication was a collaboration between the Michigan Department of Community Health and the Michigan Department of Education with input from a variety of organizations. The fact sheets can be downloaded by choosing the topic of choice from the list provided at the Web site.

Healthy Reading Lesson Plans Would You like to Teach Nutrition and Reading at the Same Time? It’s Easy When you use Children’s Books!
File Type: Web page

File Type: PowerPoint, read only
Logo Download the Team Nutrition logo in either full color or grayscale for use on your school's Team Nutrition promotions.
File Type: JPEG		Size: color 187K, grayscale 153K

Michigan Team Nutrition Booklist Our booklist contains short, one-paragraph annotations for over 300 books about food, healthy eating, and physical activity for children in pre-school through third grade. A 23-page, Search-By-Theme cross-reference section allows the user to search for books related to a specific theme such as Fruits and Vegetables, Dairy, Breakfast, ABCs, Pizza, Soup-making, Outside Activity, Counting and Math, Spanish Translations and more.
File Type: Web page

Nutrition Education Activity List This list has numerous suggestions for nutrition education activities for the classroom, cafeteria, school-wide, for school staff and at home. The list was developed by the Michigan Department of Education and Michigan Department of Community Health for use by the 2004-05 Fruit and Vegetable grantee schools.
File Type: Adobe PDF, read-only	Size: 137K	Download PDF Reader

PowerPoint Presentations Team Nutrition Grant Training, October 3, November 1, 2006 Elementary Nutrition Education Training Middle and High School Education Training Wrap Up Healthy School Action Tool Facilitator Power Point - This presentation is for trained HSAT facilitators to use when working with school teams and was presented to you during your HSAT facilitator training. This will help your team understand the need to make the case for creating a healthy school environment and how to accomplish this. Dayle Hayes, MS, RD, is an award winning author, educator and pioneer dietitian in electronic communications. She has been the keynote speaker at many Michigan conferences, including the 2002 Michigan Team Nutrition Workshop and the 2005 Eat Healthy + Play Hard = Smart Students conference. This series of PowerPoint presentations outline the benefits of promoting nutrition in schools, provide information getting started and building a strong team, as well as highlight facts and research supporting the need for school nutrition programs. Children's Health: A Call to Action, What Schools Can Do - This is a "Show to Go" presentation designed to educate school boards, school administration, teachers, nurses, counselors, food service, coaches, community organizations, parent groups, and others on current overweight and obesity trends, the challenge ahead and a call to action. This is a great tool to use when educating others on the importance of addressing children's health and seeking action. The presentation is designed to take about 15-25 minutes and includes speaker notes. There are presenter and audience evaluations. Please complete the presenter evaluation and fax back to the number listed on the form. This presentation was developed by West Michigan Action for Healthy Kids, March 2005.
File Type: Web page

Promote Healthy Weight In Children A comprehensive look at children weight problems and a guide to what Michigan is doing to promote healthy food choices and physical activity for children.
File Type: Adobe PDF , read-only		Size: 285K	Download PDF Reader

Pyramids Between the Pages The Pyramids Between the Pages Mini-pack is a take-and-teach curriculum that links the development of beginning literacy skills with nutrition and physical activity education and promotion. The curriculum is designed for use with children in grades K-2, in school, in an out-of-school setting, or in a community-based program.
File Type: Website		http://www.pbp.fcs.msue.msu.edu

Pyramids Between the Pages for the Young Child Leader's Guide Pyramids Between the Pages for the Young Child Leader's Guide provides four nutrition education lessons for children ages 2 to 5 that use books with positive messages about food or physical activity. The lessons also teach early literacy skills and can be used by parents, caregivers and/or educators.

School Meals Handout The MDE School Meals fact sheet is designed to assist shcool foodservice professionals share the "story" of school meals in Michigan. The first page highlights just how many children participate and are nurished by the National School Lunch Program. The second page highlights how school meals fit in with the "other" venues in schools where food is sold and given away.
File Type: Adobe PDF, read-only		Size: 6.2MB	Download PDF Reader

School Menus Made Easy School Menus Made Easy is a collection of up-to-date nutrition-related tips, bits, and blurbs developed for school foodservice directors, teachers, school health coordinators, administrators, county extension staff members and anyone else who is interested in helping to educate and spread the word to families that nutrition and physical activity are important!
File Type: Web page

State School Board Policies Policy on Healthy Food and Beverages
File Type: Adobe PDF, read-only		Size: 1.3MB	Download PDF Reader

State School Board Policies Policy on Quality Physical Education
File Type: Adobe PDF, read-only	Size: 88KB	Download PDF Reader

State School Board Policies Policy on Coordinated School Health Programs
File Type: Adobe PDF, read-only	Size: 85KB	Download PDF Reader

Tips and Tools Tips and Tools to Help Implement Michigan's Healthy Food and Beverage Policy - This resource was developed by Michigan Action for Healthy Kids to help schools implement the policy passed by the Michigan State Board of Education. Tips and Tools to Promote Physical Education and Physical Activity. This resource was developed by Michigan Action For Healthy Kids to help schools implement the Quality Physical Education Policy passed by the Michigan State Board of Education.
File Type: Adobe PDF, read-only	Size: 137K	Download PDF Reader