5-2-1-0 Tool Kit for Teaching Nutrition!

Wonder how to get your students totally engaged in learning how to make healthy eating and active living choices, while meeting state standards? Use this new fun-filled Activity Kit filled with hundreds of hands-on activities, reproducible activity sheets, creative food experiences, standards-based lesson plans, and health handouts for individual and group work to make nutrition come alive in your classroom!

Tool Kit includes 195 pages filled with everything you need to carry out fun, easy, interactive lessons for lower and upper elementary students to teach:

• 5 Fruits & Vegetables a Day!
• 2 Hours or Less of Screen Time
• 1 Hour of Fun Physical Activity!
• 0 Sweetened Drinks, How to Cut Down on Sugar, and Drink More Water!

The 5-2-1-0 Tool Kit features exciting hands-on activities for individual and group learning experiences integrating Nutrition with Language Arts, Media Literacy, Science, Math, Social Studies, Physical Education, Art, and Health. Teachers can just pick and choose the activities that are right for their students!

Here’s just a sampling of activities for students:

• Print out their own set of Tracker Bands for each of the 5-2-1-0 objectives to help inspire healthy eating every day.
• Create their own “Fruit + Veggie Tasting Journal,” “Fruit + Veggie Classroom Encyclopedia,” and “Veggies Got Talent! Show” to promote healthy eating at school and at home.
• Conduct Science Experiments to test the effects of certain foods on their bodies.
• Print out “Take-A-Break!” cards to help kids have fun moving their bodies throughout the day.
• Develop research, interviewing, and writing skills to interview family members and celebrate the food traditions of various cultures.
• Practice taking standardized tests with reading and writing “Test Prep” activities while learning about how to take care of all parts of their bodies.
• Critically evaluate media messages and create their own advertisements to promote healthy foods and healthy practices.
• Work together in groups to create a “Veggies Got Talent Show” or a “Take Action!” project to help empower kids to be health advocates for themselves, their peers, and their families.