Nutrition Education should be part of your coordinated health program and can be easily integrated into core curriculum in schools and child care sites. Choose educational programs that are fun, age-appropriate, hands-on, culturally relevant, based on scientific evidence and involve parents.

Physical Education/Activity should be fun but it should also include meaningful content, appropriate instruction and opportunities to learn. Children and adolescents need at least 60 minutes of moderate-intensity on most days for health.

Nutrition Education Resources PreK-Grade 12

Physical Education/Activity Resources for Schools

• Addressing Physical Activity, CDC
  
• American Assoc for Health, Physical Ed, Recreation and Dance
• NEW! Create a Classroom that Moves Manual, Ohio Team Nutrition
• Fuel Up to Play 60
• IL Assoc for Health, Physical Ed, Recreation and Dance
• NEW! Let's Move Active Schools
• NEW! Move for Thought, Iowa Team Nutrition
• MyPlate Physical Activity Tracker
• NASPE Guidelines for Physical Education
• PE4Life
• The President’s Challenge
• School Healthy Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity, CDC
• Walking School Bus
• Youth Physical Activity Toolkit, CDC

Physical Activity Resources for Child Care

• NEW! Active Early, Wisconsin
• NEW! CACFP Wellness Resources for Child Care Providers, USDA
• Let’s Move! Child Care: Tools for Child and Day Care Centers and Family-Care Homes, USDA and Nemours
• Nutrition and Physical Activity Self Assessment for Child Care, NC Healthy Weight Initiative
• NEW! Nutrition & Wellness Tips for Young Children: Provider Handbook for the Child and Adult Care Food Program, USDA
• Physical Activity: Young Children, HMRS
• Preschool/Childcare Garden Resources, USDA
• Rainy Day Physical Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers, NFSMI

Nutrition and Wellness Programs, Illinois State Board of Education
100 North First Street, W-270, Springfield, Illinois 62777-0001

FAX number: 217/524-6124
TOLL FREE number: 800/545-7892