Resources for Schools

Principals, teachers and parents can help make schools healthier places to learn by providing high-quality nutrition, integrating physical activity during the day and teaching children about the importance of embracing a healthy, active lifestyle.

Encourage healthy living at your school during August and all year round with these action items:

• Announce Kids Eat Right Month™ in your newsletter or on your website.
• Promote Kids Eat Right Month™ activities to your local media by downloading and completing our Kids Eat Right Month™ press release template.
• Coordinate a healthy eating presentation and activities for students with the school registered dietitian nutritionist and school nutrition service staff, or invite a local registered dietitian nutritionist.
• Incorporate nutrition education and physical education into the school day with nutrition and physical activity events and MyPlate curriculum.
• Host an after-school healthy eating presentation for families, featuring the school registered dietitian nutritionist or invite a local registered dietitian nutritionist.
• Plant a garden. School gardens are an important educational tool to help students understand how healthy foods are produced.
• In the classroom, ask children to carefully save empty food product labels and boxes. Spend some time reading labels and comparing information on the Nutrition Facts Labels. Expand into a menu-planning opportunity, individually or in teams, using MyPlate as the guide to a healthy meal.
• Join the Alliance for a Healthier Generation's Healthy Schools Program.
• Use this guide and template to contact your mayor or governor to request a proclamation.
• Post the Kids Eat Right Month™ logo on your school's website.
• Follow Kids Eat Right on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest and Google+.