Exciting New Partnering With MyPyramid Project – FREE Resources for all of you from us
Foodandhealth.com has partnered with the USDA to help get MyPyramid‘s critical nutrition guidelines into the hands of families, teachers and health educators to help individuals shop and stock their kitchen with MyPyramid. Cooking and meal planning is easy when you have the right ingredients on hand with recipes, shopping lists, handouts and leader activity guides.
Stay tuned for a 3 part series on how to organize your kitchen, shop using MyPyramid and prepare quick and easy meals using the ingredients on hand. Handouts, recipes, quizzes, coloring sheets and video will be here, too!
We are excited because we have been working on MyPyramid educational products since its inception in 2005 and we believe that MyPyramid presents a number of wonderful teaching lessons for educators. And the time is right now for everyone in prevention and wellness to help individuals realize that the best healthcare starts in the grocery store. Right now you can find a MyPyramid Salad recipe and demonstration guide and puzzle here for free download. And we will attend the meeting in Alexandria next week so we will be able to contribute and keep you posted on updates.
Comments and requests are appreciated!
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I think all the options have merit. I like to use power points, have activities and show videos when applicable for food science students. Simple to understand handouts are a plus when speaking to families. I am excited about these option. Thanks!
the more interactive the better… Colorful user friendly handouts
I agree pictures for powerpoint, youtube, and simple quick recipes are what would help me teach the population I work with and what they are looking for.
On the go young adults are so often left out of the nutrition education loop. Much of what I see available is geared to K-8 education. I would like to see more for the 20-30 year olds. They do not want to be “talked down to.”
I agree, I work w/ college students who have little time and money. They are a generation that has eaten out a lot and not had the experience of cooking nutritious meals Nancy
I’d like more clipart, graphics of foods, children and food, preparing food, safe food handling, so I can prepare and tailor my own powerpoints and handouts for my audiences. Thanks!
Web videos where people can subscribe on youtube would be helpful. Some RDs already use this information medium.
Education needs to be fun for young people, even up through young adulthood. Traditional static teaching materials; handouts, posters, word oriented slides; don’t seem to catch the attention of those raised with video games and TV. Computer based or animation video may be better accepted especially with catchy feedback from quiz, etc.
I agree it is hard to capture the attention of young people with traditional methods, unfortunately, many educators don’t have the resources to use computers or even show videos in some of the settings they are teaching in – a shame and something that needs to be worked on!
Kelly describes my situation exactly. No computers, monitors, or screens of any kind are available. Interesting handouts, and the occasional poster, are the only opportunities to present information visually.
Agree with Susan. Simple, easy to read, few ingredients, low cost.
(Not asking too much, heh?)
Thanks Linda and Susan – it helps to be reminded to keep it simple!
simple handouts with main points bulleted