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Introducing Nutrition Education To Preschoolers, Maythe Manriquez
Introducing Nutrition Education To Preschoolers, Maythe Manriquez
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
This paper is about the importance of including nutrition education in preschool curriculum. It includes my process of creating and implementing a 3-day nutrition curriculum and how it impacted the children that took place in the program. This paper also goes over important influences on the development of children's eating habits.
Teaching Nutrition Education To Kinderprep Students, Margarita Perez
Teaching Nutrition Education To Kinderprep Students, Margarita Perez
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
Often, elementary school curriculum neglects to include nutrition education. Because nutrition education does not receive much instructional time, students may not learn about proper nutrition, which may make it difficult to lead a healthy lifestyle as they get older. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2014), during the 2011-2012 school year, 52% of districts required some type of skill-based nutrition education, while only 35% required a curriculum be provided for each grade level. To address this, I created a 3-session curriculum about nutrition education and delivered it to KinderPrep students at Northminster Presbyterian Preschool/KinderPrep in Salinas, …