Building Healthy Kids:

Lessons, Links, and Resources

By Alan Haskvitz, national motivational speaker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Haskvitz

How to Build Healthy Kids

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/food_choice.html

Food related links for building integrated lessons

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/veggies.html

Food safety

http://www.reacheverychild.com/science/agriculture/safety.html

Agriculture and food

http://www.eeweek.org/

Agriculture lessons and free resources

http://www.reacheverychild.com/science/agriculture/index.html

Conservation links

http://www.reacheverychild.com/science/agriculture/conservation.html

California Women in Agriculture

http://www.cawomen4ag.com/

Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agriculture Library, USDA

www.nalusda.gov/fnic

The following organizations are agriculture related.

Financial assistance for garden projects

Gardens for Growing People

http://www.svn.net/growpepl/

Nutrition Fact Game

www.freshstarts.com

USDA for Kids

http://www.usda.gov/news/usdakids/index.html

California Women in Agriculture
My Farm Book is interesting. Write for additional
sources.
http://www.cawomen4ag.com/
CyberFarm Garden
Everything you need for your garden.
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~farm/garden.html


Agriculture Heritage from colonial days
http://www.campsilos.org/


Cream of the Crop
Newsletter plus a resource guide to
educational materials about agriculture.  Just about
the best resource for all grade levels. Great
Materials.
http://www.cfaitc.org
Food and Nutrition Information Center, National
Agriculture Library, USDA
www.nalusda.gov/fnic


Organization list
Not all are linked, but using name provided and search
engine can be quite rewarding for student samples and
lesson ideas.
http://www.farmworld.com/assn/index.html
AgNIC is a guide to quality agricultural information
on the Internet as selected by the National
Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and
other institutions.
http://www.agnic.org/
Just for kids recopies
http://www.justkidsrecipes.com/index.shtml
Home Economics lessons
http://www.easyfunschool.com/IndexHomeEc.html
You are What You Eat
Have them take the Healthy Fridge test and others and
than decide what to do.
http://www.healthyfridge.org/   
Food safety
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/foodsci/agentinfo/
Nutrition
http://primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/library/nutrition/nutritn.htm
Food and Nutrition Information Center, National
Agriculture Library, USDA
http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic



American Horticultural Society


http://www.ahs.org/youth_gardening/index.htm


List of master gardeners


http://www.mastergardeners.org/


United States Department of Agriculture


http://www.usda.gov



California Strawberry Commission


http://www.calstrawberry.com/




The ALACA Company 


They have a kit about cotton that may be of value.


http://www.cottonsjourney.com/


National Cotton Council of America


http://www.cotton.org/pubs/cottoncounts/resources.cfm


Grains Nutrition Information Center


www.wheatfoods.org/


An excellent bibliography of gardening books and recipes and a seed catalog.


www.cooksgarden.com


International Fertilizer Association


www.fertilizer.org


Botany Links


www.lerc.nasa.gov/Other_Groups/K-12/John/botany.htm


Botanical Gardens


www.bbg.org. 


Earth Garden Sources


www.bonus.com/bonus/list/Spring_99.html?referrer=90331A


4-H Youth


Department of Agriculture


http://www.4-h.org/resources/


United States Department of Agriculture.


www.usda.gov


National Corn Growers 


www.ncga.com


Peanut Butter Lovers


http://www.peanutbutterlovers.com/


Peanut Butter Recipes


http://www.brownielocks.com/peanutbutter.html


How does a Peanut Grow?


http://www.chinapeanutseller.com/faq_1.htm


History of Peanut


http://www.texomapeanut.com/inn/peanut%20history.htm


American Peanut Council


http://www.aboutpeanuts.com/educ.html


Peanut Butter Institute


Education materials mainly about diet


http://www.peanut-institute.org/EducationalMaterials.html


Peanut Butter and Jelly Archeology


An interesting lesson on layering.


http://www.nps.gov/hocu/html/peanut_butter.htm


National Peanut Board


http://www.nationalpeanutboard.com/document_325.asp


For more free educational materials go to


http://www.reachverychild.com