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Health & Nutrition Education in the Garden
A Guide to Integrating Garden Education into National Health Education Standards
The purpose of this guide is to assist educators in bringing classroom health education into the garden with hands-on activities. The focus of these activities is on nutrition education, connecting activities to the Priority Health Topic of Healthy Eating, as well as connecting to National Health Education Standards. As written in the Key Policies and Guidelines of the NHES, “Nutrition education includes culturally relevant activities that are ʻāina-based and hands-on, such as food preparation, taste-testing, farm visits, and school gardens,” (National Health Education Standards in Hawaiʻi). This guide offers engaging ways for classroom teachers to integrate nutrition and health education with garden education.
The purpose of this guide is to assist educators in bringing classroom health education into the garden with hands-on activities. The focus of these activities is on nutrition education, connecting activities to the Priority Health Topic of Healthy Eating, as well as connecting to National Health Education Standards. As written in the Key Policies and Guidelines of the NHES, “Nutrition education includes culturally relevant activities that are ʻāina-based and hands-on, such as food preparation, taste-testing, farm visits, and school gardens,” (National Health Education Standards in Hawaiʻi). This guide offers engaging ways for classroom teachers to integrate nutrition and health education with garden education.
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Teacher Resource Guide
Garden Integration Guide
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