Balancing Food and Play Curriculum Bundle — English
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- August 5, 2021
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Overview
The Balancing Food and Play curriculum reinforces the importance of daily physical activity, consumption of fruits and vegetables, limiting screen time, and encouraging youth to drink milk with meals and water with snacks. This bundle includes 20 lesson plans with classroom PowerPoints, which require minimum teacher preparation time, TEKS summary charts, student journals, and 4 take-home newsletters and recipe cards.
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