Keyword: Nutrition
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Community Resources for Illinois Families
This list provides information about community resources for families in Illinois.
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Nutrition for Young Children
This list contains resources to help providers address nutrition for young children.
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Recipes for Learning: A Baking Project
The topic of baking began to generate interest in the classroom after one child began baking with his grandmother at home.
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Preschoolers’ Nutrition and Fitness
This list contains a variety of resources associated with nutrition and fitness for preschoolers.
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Cooking with Spinach
Shalan Knapke, Gail Lawrence, and Mindy MosesThe Honeybee Room: Infants and ToddlersSt. Ambrose University Children’s CampusDavenport, Iowa The Cooking with Spinach Project took place in the Honeybee room, the infant/toddler classroom of St. Ambrose Children’s Campus, which is part of St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Children in the Honeybee room attend eight hours a…
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Healthy Children Eat Right
Good nutrition is basic for supporting preschoolers’ healthy growth while avoiding obesity.
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Pour It! Stir It! Yum!
Cooking is a wonderful way to engage children and provide rich learning opportunities. Cooking engages the senses and gives children hands-on opportunities to explore food.
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Use Care, Imagination When Introducing New Snacks
Snacks are an important part of children’s daily nutrition. Children may eat a little one day and more the next day. Their eating may relate to appetite, familiarity with a snack, or sensory aspects of the food, known as “snack appeal.”
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Physical Development and Health Lesson Addressing Benchmark 23.B.ECb
The classroom’s pretend grocery store is a popular play area. In other adapted lesson plans, the children have taken a field site visit to a local grocery store and reflected upon their trip with photos (16.A.ECa), learned a silly song about grocery stores (25.A.ECc), and built a pretend grocery store where they exchanged money for…
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Eating Right = Healthy Children
Good nutrition is basic for supporting preschoolers’ healthy growth while avoiding obesity.
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Say Yes to Healthy Snacks!
In planning healthy snacks, consider food safety and known allergies as well as “snack appeal”!