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Children's Health Curriculum Lesson 8: Sustainable Eating, Healthy Foods, and Community Gardens

Lesson 8

This lesson describes what foods we should eat to stay healthy and how to eat food that helps both the Earth and everything on it stay healthy.

Kids Will Be Able To:

define sustainable, local, community garden, and nutrition;
explain how air, water, food (soil), shelter, and sun impact gardens and food; and
discuss the connection between climate change and food, and clean waterways and food.

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Lesson 8: Sustainable Eating, Healthy Foods, and Community Gardens

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Instructor materials:
Lesson Cards (PDF) (10 pp, 3 MB)

Handouts for students:
Take Home Talk (PDF) (2 pp, 4 MB)

Visuals:

Poster 1 Eating (PDF) (2 pp, 922 K)

Poster 2 Eating (PDF) (2 pp, 2 MB)

Poster 3 Eating (PDF) (2 pp, 1 MB)

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Instructor Resources

Let's Move Campaign - lesson plans, resources, and kid-focused information on balanced nutrition and increasing physical activity.