More information about NET is available on the USDA FNS web page. In the year 2000, nutrition education will be a major educational component of all child nutrition programs and offered in all schools, child care facilities, and summer sites as part of health education, as part of an interdisciplinary curriculum, or through other means. Nutritious Meal Service 4. Three modules teach or reinforce current nutrition concepts and basic skills in subjects including math, language arts, science, social studies, and health. Students participate in inquiry based activities, group projects, charting and graphing, report and creative writing, problem solving, calculating, hands-on activities, and food experiences.
Thematic units help children make connections between subject areas.
The Super 7 poster series for elementary audiences and Harold and His Amazing Green Plants from Disney Educational Videos, Growing Vegetable Soup , and the video, From Farm to Food accompany the curriculum. Activities teach about protein, carbohydrate, and fat using energy through physical activity. Three multi-disciplinary, thematic units help students make connections between six subject areas, social studies, math, science, language arts, family and consumer science, and health. Growing to one's genetic potential. Impact of food choices, food packaging, and food waste on our environment.