Fortify students for a healthy summer with quick nutrition education activities

Help your students make good summertime food choices. National Dairy Council® and your local Dairy council® bring you three easy ways to teach kids about good nutrition before summer break:

FIRST, check out the Language Arts connections for Arianna's Nutrition Expedition lessons. Which lessons might fit into your reading or writing blocks this month?

NEXT, get a quick nutrition refresher. Take a look at the Nutrition Backgrounder for

• a useful handout on the Five Food Groups
• new MyPyramid-based portion sizes
• your students' special nutrition needs, including the impacts of the obesity crisis
• easy nutrition activities you can use today
• tips on becoming a nutrition role model

THEN, have some fun and test-drive Arianna's Food Force One, one of the new online nutrition games. Food Force One turns students into high-tech spies as they search for Combination Foods in multicultural settings. Teachers are using the games for extra credit, homework, and independent study, and the students love them! And, best of all, the games reinforce important nutrition concepts like food groups, portion sizes, and health benefits.