Resources For Educators: Healthy Eating
Printed Resources
Click on the "Order" buttons to order print resources free of charge from Peel Public Health. Resources will be sent to schools and groups within the Region of Peel. To obtain other resources listed, call 905-799-7700 or email Region of Peel-Public Health.
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| Eating Well With Canada’s Food Guide – A Resource for Educators and Communicators |
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Canada's Food Guide – A Resource for Educators and Communicators |
| Canada’s Food Guide Offered in 12 languages |
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| Colouring Maze Fun colouring activity that teaches children about Canada's Food Guide. |
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Colouring Maze (125Kb) |
| Discover Healthy Eating! A Teacher’s Resource for Grades 1–8 This binder contains background information, glossaries, activities and handouts specific to each grade level to assist teachers in promoting healthy eating habits among students. |
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Discover Healthy Eating |
| Great Lunches for Our Kids Offers ideas on making healthy lunches for school kids that include foods from the four food groups. Also provides tips to help make lunch preparation easier. For educators and parents. |
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Great Lunches for Our Kids |
| Facts on Snacks Produced by Dairy Farmers of Ontario-available via Peel Health |
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Facts on Snacks Booklet Cover |
| Food Guide Fortune Teller Paper game to teach children about Canada’s Food Guide. |
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Food Guide Fortune Teller (59 Kb) |
| Food Word Search Teaches children about Canada’s Food Guide. |
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Food Search (731 Kb) |
| Nutrition Matters : A Fast Break in the Morning |
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A Fast Break in the Morning (703 Kb) |
| Nutrition Matters: Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide Word List |
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CFG Wordlist (662 Kb) |
| Nutrition Matters: Cool Lunch Ideas For The Balanced School Day |
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Cool Lunch Ideas (77 Kb) |
| Nutrition Matters: Name that Ontario Fresh Fruit or Vegetable Match fruit and vegetables names with the pictures. |
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Name That Ontario Fresh Fruit or Vegetable (824 Kb) |
| Nutrition Matters: Snacks for School Age Children |
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Snacks for School Age Children (37 Kb) |
Displays
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| Be Active, Eat Well Display: This display features a boy on a skateboard and also includes colourful nutritious foods to promote the importance of being active and eating well. | Healthy Living Grades K-8 |
View Be Active, Eat Well Display |
| Childhood Obesity Prevention Display: Oatmeal: This display promotes the importance of breakfast and features a bowl of oatmeal and the Peel Childhood Obesity Prevention website. The website provides information on how to prevent childhood obesity. This display can be used at school health fairs, open houses and other school events. |
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View Oatmeal Display |
| Healthy Lunches and Snacks Display: Colourful display with food pictures that promote delicious, nutritious, quick and easy lunch and snack ideas. Approximately 7‘8” high by 8’ wide. |
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View Lunches and Snacks Display |
| Powerfuel Display: Features cool graphics of teens being active climbing a granola mountain, shooting hoops with an orange. |
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View Powerfuel Display |
Workshops
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| Community Food Advisor Volunteers Provide workshops on healthy eating for parent groups. |
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To request a workshop please call Peel Health at 905-799-7700. |
| Healthy Lunches and Snacks Workshop: For parents of elementary school children. Topics include: Recent stats on what children are eating, Canada's Food Guide and how to apply it when preparing lunches and snacks; food label reading and ingredient comparison. |
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Presentation is 60 minutes long. |
| Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide for Teachers This workshop helps teachers learn about the changes in the new Food Guide. Includes tips, tools and ideas to help incorporate updated information into the healthy eating curriculum. |
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To request this workshop free of charge, email Region of Peel-Public Health or call 905-799-7700. |
Videos
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Mission Nutrition (1998): Animated, using Q & A format to address healthy eating and physical activity through a maze of foods from Canada's Food Guide. Facilitator Guide is included. |
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Free for loan, call Peel Health at 905-799-7700. |
| Supermarket Savvy: Great Grocery Store Adventure (2007): Tour a gocery store with a registered dietition to learn about Canada's Food Guide, reading nutrition labels, low-cost food options, foods from around the world, and how to make the healthy choice, the easy choice. |
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Free for loan, call Peel Health at 905-799-7700. 15 minutes long |
Other Resources: Physical Activity, Body Image