 What's It All About?
This multi-faceted activity illustrates the relationship between agriculture, nutrition and health. It provides parents, staff and faculty with a great opportunity to work together and to take advantage of the resources in their community. It challenges schools to let the spirit of Team Nutrition fill not only the classrooms but also the doors, hallways, ceilings, bulletin boards and dining room!
How do we start?
Announce the school-wide Team Nutrition fair to the entire school. Ask each class to create a project to display at the fair. Each class can decorate the doors of their classroom to illustrate the themes of Team Nutrition. Invite local community partners to sponsor a booth at your Team Nutrition fair.
What else?
 Incorporate preparation for the fair into several subject areas. Art classes can decorate the halls, dining room, library, etc., with posters or material about Team Nutrition and eating healthy. Science classes can learn about seeds and plant growth. Social studies classes can discuss agricultural products grown in your region or state and label each crop on a map. The health fair can also feature a nutritious foods snack bar.
And more...
Invite parents to the fair to see their child's class present a Team Nutrition project or game. Examples of activities:
- Kindergartners and first graders can present a "Mardi Gras" parade where students dress up as their favorite nutritious food.
- Second graders can enact "The Little Red Hen," a story about how a grain of wheat becomes a loaf of bread.
- Third grade French class can sing the “Food Time” song in French - creative students can even write an extra verse.
- Middle and High School students can play "Food Group Relay Racing," where teams of students take turns pulling food items from large plastic bags and racing to put them in the appropriate food group-labeled basket across the room.
Give awards on the night of the fair for the most creative, most original, most Team Nutrition theme-related art, most colorful, most likely to be remembered, etc. The winning team can win prizes, such as a frozen fruit dessert. And finally, the entire school can participate in a taste-testing sponsored by one of the classes.
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