Family Bookbag: The family bookbag program recognizes that when families eat together, read together, and play together they will make healthier lifestyle choices. This program helps families put all of these pieces together to make these choices become habit!

MyPlate: This lesson introduces students to USDA’s new healthful eating icon, MyPlate. Key messages in this lesson include enjoying food, but avoiding oversized portions, increasing healthful food choices such as fruits and vegetables, reducing foods in the diet that are high in sodium and replacing sugar sweetened beverages with healthier choices.
(45 – 60 minutes)

Fruits and Veggies More Matters: This is a 3 lesson series or can be condensed into a 1 day class. Fruits and Veggies More Matters teaches students the importance of eating fruits and vegetables daily to prevent disease later in life. Students have the opportunity to sample a fruit and vegetable snack.
(60 minutes each)

Get Moving: This 60 minute lesson provides students with an opportunity to get up and get moving. Indoor physical activities are done in the classroom to emphasize the importance of physical activity.
(60 minutes)

Building Better Bones: This is a 3 lesson series. Building Better Bones teaches students how the combination of physical activity and the daily inclusion of high calcium, low-fat foods promote the proper bone growth we all need to prevent osteoporosis later on in life.
(60 minutes each)

Think Your Drink: This interactive class compares popular drinks students consume with healthier choices. Students will learn how many popular drinks are lacking the vitamins and minerals necessary for proper growth and development. Students will have an opportunity to participate in a taste test of an easy to make fruit smoothie.
(60 minutes)

Healthy Ways for a Healthy Weight: Let's talk Bodies! In this class, we discuss different body types and shapes and celebrate that we all come in different shapes and sizes. Students will learn how to use MyPyramid as a tool for healthful living.
(60 minutes)

Life in the Fast Food Lane: Fast food is a way of life, especially for teenagers. In our Life in the Fast Food Lane program, we teach teenagers how they can eat nutritious, low fat foods when enjoying fast food restaurants.
(60 minutes)