Educator Support - Classroom

Teachers are on the frontlines in the movement for healthy change. Make your classroom into a model of health for your school site.

To ban or not to ban junk food, students weigh in (pdfs)

• Six Student Nutrition Essays

Healthy Pledge Forms (pdfs)

Writing or drawing a healthy pledge is a great way to get students of all ages to start thinking about ways they can become healthier.  At school create a bulletin board in the cafeteria; at home create a refrigerator art gallery displaying and reminding students of their pledges....

• My Pledge | My Pledge K-1

Farmer's Market Lesson Plans and Activities (pdfs)

• Kindergarten
  Lessons | Activity 1 | Activity 2 Broccoli | Activity 2 Pear | Activity 2 Carrot
  | Activity 3
• First Grade
  Lessons | Activity 1 | Activity 2 | Activity 3
• Second and Third Grade
  Lessons and Activities
• Fourth and Fifth Grade
  Lessons and Activities | Activity 2 | Activity 3 | Activity 4 | Activity 5
• Find San Francisco Farmers Markets at sfgate.com
• See students In Action on a Farmer's Market field trip.

Teach a lesson from the nutrition and physical activity curricula (pdfs)

• Elementary Lessons | Middle School Lessons | High School Lesson
• Food Allergy Letter:  English | Chinese | Spanish
  Before you conduct a food lesson with your class, send home this letter to ask parents about their child's food allergies.

Celebrate special days with healthier food choices (pdfs)

• Healthier Snacks and Party Foods for School Age Children
  

  English | Chinese | Spanish

• Healthy Halloween Treats
  

  English | Chinese | Spanish

Integrate nutrition and physical activity into curricula (pdfs)

• Weaving Nutrition & Physical Activity Content Into Your Classroom Day
• Health Links in the K-5 Houghton Mifflin Language Arts Curriculum
• The Food Pyramid—Integration
• Sample Nutrition & Physical Activity Promotion Activities

Write a classroom healthy snack ‘policy’ (pdfs)

• Writing a Classroom Snack ‘Policy’

Cook with your students (pdfs)

• Effective Hand Washing
• Knife Safety with Students

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