The Integrated Nutrition Education Program (INEP)

Learning Comes Alive through Classroom Cooking

Presenters

Diane Brogden, UCHSC, Stanley BPS Heather Owen, UCHSC, Stanley BPS

Stanley BPS Intern Training

3:35-3:50/5:00-5:15 What is the Integrated Nutrition Education Program?

3:50-4:50/5:15-6:15 Invent-a-Salsa

INEP Program Partners

University of Colorado Denver SNAP-Ed/Colorado State University Cooking Matters COWP-Culture of Wellness Programs Denver Urban Gardens Colorado Health Foundation Stanley British Primary School USDA School Lunch Programs King Soopers, Albertson’s, Western Dairy Council SNAP-Ed (funder)

2000

Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1990, 2000, 2010

(*BMI 30, or about 30 lbs. overweight for 5’4” person)

2010

1990

No Data <10% 10%–14% 15%–19% 20%–24% 25%–29% ≥30%

http://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/pdf/2013-08-vitalsigns.pdf

Who We Are

Elementary hands on nutrition education program.

12 lessons, Multi-year (K-5th). Utilize classroom teachers to

increase student reach and health impact

Promote connections between classroom, lunchroom and home to improve health messaging

Each INEP school receives 1-3 parent nutrition educations classes

INEP’s Goal

Instill life-long nutrition behaviors to prevent obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer and heart disease

In the Classroom

Experiential, hands on, food prep and tasting

Exposure to wide variety of fruits and vegetables

Integrated into Colorado Academic Standards

Recipes and activity sheets in Spanish

Key Curriculum Elements

Write on the Chalkboard

“Eat more vegetables every

day!”

What was your favorite vegetable in today’s salad?How do you plan to eat more vegetables today?How do you plan to eat more vegetable s every day?

Isolate one simple behavior in each lesson

Use goal-setting

Use “self-talk” or “think aloud” to verbalize how to make a behavior happen

Hands on Nutrition Lessons Change Eating Behaviors and Enhance Learning

Provide Opportunity to Try New Foods

Try New Foods in a Non-threatening Environment

Capitalize on Positive Peer Pressure

Teach Food Preparation Skills

Encourage Teamwork in Small Groups

From the Classroom to the Family

Newsletters to

families with nutrition

tips and recipes 3 times a year Take home recipes

connected to lessons Book Bags for 2nd graders Free adult nutrition classes in

each INEP school Parent nights

Parent Education

Parents will: Learn to eat better while

spending less Get ideas on how to

make easy and healthy meals for the family

Learn to make exercise a healthy habit

Lesson ScheduleSample Calendar

         

Month  Kinder

Lessons1 GradeLessons

2nd GradeLessons

3rd GradeLessons

4th GradeLessons

5th GradeLessons

Sept 24 Parent Letter Parent Letter Parent Letter Parent Letter Parent Letter Parent Letter

Oct

1 MyPlate Snack Mix MyPlate Food Groups MyPlate Sort MyPlate Bingo MyPlate - Cut & Paste MyPlate Colorado Wildlife

8 Germs Are Not for Sharing Wash Your Hands Hooray for Hand Washing Keeping Busy Hands Clean Being a Germ Scientist Germ Scientists

15            

22            

29 Manners for Dinosaur Manners Manners Manners Manners Skeletal System

Nov

5            

12 Families Families Families Families Food Energy from Sun Mind Your Manners

19            

26 Apple Farmer Annie Pumpkin Circle Tasty Cheese Man Still Life Fresh Salsa Digestive system

Dec

3            

10 My Five Senses Moonsquirter Salad English Muffin Pizza Dairy Fairy Yogurt is Alive Kwanzaa Salad

17            

24            

31            

Jan

7            

14 Exercise Zoo Move Your Body Carlos & the "Squashed" Salad Ask Exercise Kid Exercise Kid /Couch Potato Calorie Balance

21            

28            

Feb

4 Chinese New Year Fruity Milkshake Chinese Tangrams Chinese Zodiac Chinese Calligraphy Fat and Fast Food

11            

18            

25 Little Red Hen Fruit Pizza Healthy Heart Jazzy Sweet Fruit Salad Fruit Riddles Portion Distortion

Mar

4            

11 Tortilla Factory Bread, Bread, Bread Parts of the Plant Salad Parts of Plant: Seeds Find the Fat Cesar Chavez

18            

25            

Apr

1 Vegetable Bug Blueberries for Me Bean Bag Salad Parts of Plant: Leaves & Whole Grains Vitamin C

8            

15 Rainbow of Health Bingo Salsa Taste Your Words Graphing Your Fav. Veg Pizza Pie Invent-a-Salsa

22            

29            

May

No INEP Delivery

INEP Book List Kindergarten Book 1st Grade Book 2nd Grade Book Apple Farmer Annie

Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington

Bingo Salsa

Fruit and Vegetable Bingo Game

Bean Bag Salad

How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan

Chinese New Year

Dragon Dance by Joan Holub

Blueberries for Me

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

Carlos and the "Squashed" Salad

Carlos and the Squash Plant by Jan Romero Stevens

Exercise Zoo From Head to Toe by Eric Carle

Bread, Bread, Bread

Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris

Chinese Tangrams

Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert

Families

Families by Ann Morris Manners No More Vegetables by Nicole Rubel

English Muffin Pizza

The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza by Philemon Sturges

Germs Are Not for Sharing

Germs Are Not for Sharing by Elizabeth Verdick

Families Let's Eat by Ana Amorano or Full, Full, Full of Love by Trish Cooke

Families/Apple Tuna Salad

The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant

Little Red Hen The Little Red Hen Fruit Pizza I Like Fruit by Lorena Siminovich

Healthy Heart Hear Your Heart by Paul showers

Manners for Dinosaurs

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen

Fruity Milkshake Kiss the Cow by Phyllis Hooray for Hand Washing

Those Mean Nasty Dirty Downright Disgusting but Invisible Germs by Judith Anne Rice

My Five Senses My Five Senses by Aliki Moonsquirters Salad

I Will Never NOT EVER Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child

Manners

Piggy Monday by Suzanne Bloom

MyPlate Snack Mix

Food Pictures Move Your Body, Clap Your Hands

Clap Your Hands by Lorinda Bryan Cauley

MyPlate Sort

Bag of food pictures

Rainbow of Health

Growing Colors by Bruce McMillan

MyPlate Food Groups

Food Pictures Parts of the Plant Salad

Vegetables! Vegetables! by Fay Robinson

Tortilla Factory

The Tortilla Factory by Gary Paulsen

Pumpkin Circle

Pumpkin Circle by George Levenson

Taste Your Words

Vegetable Garden by Douglas Florian

Vegetable Bug Cucumber Soup by Vickie Leigh Krudwig

Wash Your Hands

Wash Your Hands by Tony Ross

Tasty Cheese Man

Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka

DISTRICT SCHOOLSAdams-Arapahoe 28J Elkhart, Peoria, Vaughn, Kenton

DISTRICT SCHOOLSDenver County 1 Archuleta, Ashley, Escalante Biggs,

Maxwell, Swansea, Wyatt Academy

DISTRICT SCHOOLSFort Lupton Weld County District 8 TwomblyGreeley R-6 Dos Rios, Centennial, MaplewoodWeld RE 1 Gilcrest, Pete Mirich

DISTRICT SCHOOLSAlamosa RE 11 Alamosa-Evans, Alamosa-PolstonCentennial R1 CentennialMonte Vista C-8 Bill Metz, MarshNorth Conejos RE-1J La Jara, ManassaMoffat Consolidated School District #2 MoffatMountain Valley School District 1 Mountain ValleySanford 6J SanfordSangre de Cristo District RE-33J Sangre de Cristo

Sierra Grande R-30 Sierra GrandeSouth Conejos RE-10 Guadalupe

DISTRICT SCHOOLS

Mesa County Valley 51 Chatfield, Chipeta, Clifton, Dos Rios, Dual Immersion Academy, Nisley, Pear Park, Rocky Mountain

Montrose County RE-1J Olathe Elementary

State-Wide INEP School Sites

2014-2015Aurora Public SchoolsDenver Public SchoolsGreeley Weld County

SchoolsSan Luis Valley SchoolsMesa County Schools

State-Wide INEP School Sites 2014-2015

DISTRICT SCHOOLS

Aurora Public Schools  

Adams-Arapahoe 28J Elkhart, Peoria, Vaughn, Kenton

   

Denver Public Schools  

Denver County 1 Archuleta, Ashley, Escalante Biggs, Maxwell, Swansea, Wyatt Academy

   

Greeley Weld County Schools  

Fort Lupton Weld County District 8 Twombly

Greeley R-6 Dos Rios, Centennial, Maplewood

Weld RE 1 Gilcrest, Pete Mirich

   

San Luis Valley Schools  

Alamosa RE 11 Alamosa-Evans, Alamosa-Polston

Centennial R1 Centennial

Monte Vista C-8 Bill Metz, Marsh

North Conejos RE-1J La Jara, Manassa

Moffat Consolidated School District #2 Moffat

Mountain Valley School District 1 Mountain Valley

Sanford 6J Sanford

Sangre de Cristo District RE-33J Sangre de Cristo

Sierra Grande R-30 Sierra Grande

South Conejos RE-10 Guadalupe

   

Mesa County Schools  

Mesa County Valley 51 Chatfield, Chipeta, Clifton, Dos Rios, Dual Immersion Academy, Nisley, Pear Park, Rocky Mountain

Montrose County RE-1J Olathe Elementary

Program Results

Increased knowledge and food preparation self-efficacy

Increased food preferences Behavior change as well as knowledge change Increased consumption

of fruits and vegetables

in the lunchroom

Evaluation Results 2013-2014

98% of teachers reported that their students were more knowledgeable about nutrition.

93% of teachers reported that their students were more willing to try new foods.

71% of INEP students indicated that they eat more fruits and vegetables.

About one in four students self-report a reduction in their consumption of soda/pop.

Comments

“The INEP activities helped build positive collaboration…The recipe ‘projects’ are real life episodes that engage active learning and the teacher doesn’t have to take time to go shopping for supplies or create materials or find resources, but the students receive enriching information….” INEP Teacher

Comments

“ The are likely to eat it when the recipes are from school. They feel proud when they made it in school.” INEP Parent

Julie Atwood, MNMProgram ManagerUniversity of Colorado Denver(303) 724-4457julie.atwood@ucdenver.eduhttp://inep.ucdenver.edu