Balancing Food and Play: Teacher Manual
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- August 5, 2021
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Overview
This manual provides a curriculum that targets early childhood health habits. The 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. Lessons are designed to last 45-60 minutes and incorporate current health, physical activity, writing, ELAR, and Math Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) when possible.
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