How to Teach Nutrition to Kids by registered dietitian Connie Evers promotes the positive, fun side of healthful eating and physical activity. Packed with ideas that empower children to evaluate nutrition information, make smart food choices and creatively prepare food, How to Teach Nutrition to Kids effectively integrates nutrition into multiple areas of a child's life. Step-by-step instructions are given for over 200 activities featuring children's books, gardening, recipes, food art, label reading, fitness and more. Parents, educators and others involved in the lives of children will welcome the hands-on nature of this recently revised book.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Great resource:
I lead nutrition workshops for parents but I am now working up a class for kids. Evers book is just what I needed. The book has lots of ideas for making nutrition education fun and interesting for children. She gives lots of activities and crafts that can help illustrate the concepts she presents. As a homeschooling mom, I like the way nutrition education can be incorporated into math, language arts, history, science, etc. However, if your child is in public school, Evers has lots of ways you can work... more info
What kids really need!!!:
Connie Liakos Evers really knows what kids out there need. This bood is written for the adults. I wish we could enable people, kids, teens. adults, to choose balanced meal food items from menus and help people to picture balanced meals and make their choices easier at school or work cafeterias, restaurants, food services of all kinds. There's alot of responsibility in consuming food these days.
excellent information and material:
I teach an afterschool class to elementary students and I loved this book. It has so much information I can share with the kids. In my class we make a healthy snack together and talk about why it is healthy for us. This book helped me create my curriculum and put together recipes. The students (primary and intermediate grades) really enjoy my class because of it. I highly recommend this book, especially because Connie Evers is a Registered Dietitian. The knowledge she shares is superior to any other book I... more info