This site offers stories in 10 videos and 11 photo essays based on an intergenerational and intercultural exchange on food issues. For five years, a small group of food activists have connected across big differences – youth/elders, rural/urban, Indigenous/settler, Canadian/Mexican. All the photo essays and videos have teacher’s guides with questions and activities, commentaries by experts, and further references.
Nutrition Connections, formerly the Nutrition Resource Centre, is a centre for nutrition knowledge and collaboration. They have numerous resources to help educators working in food and nutrition to build capacity, connect, and share information.
As the voice of Agriculture in the Classroom Ontario, AgScape provides factual, balanced, curriculum-linked food literacy programs and resources to Ontario’s educators and students.
Lesson plans and resources in several subject areas for grades 1 – 12
My Meal Matrix is a FREE, interactive Web-based tool designed to motivate high school students to reflect on and improve their eating habits. Using My Meal Matrix students electronically record their food intake, review their food record assessment based on Canadian recommendations and set and track a relevant goal to improve their eating habits.
Power 2B Me is an innovative cross curricular program that enables intermediate students to eat well! Through engaging in-class activities, food challenge videos, and online technology (including photo-journaling, polls, and food factoids), Grade 7 & 8 students explore personal healthy eating challenges and consider relevant solutions to make better food choices.
Power to Play! is a superhero-themed program encouraging healthy eating and physical activity for children. Brock Lee and Coco Lait are the superheroes who will lead your K-3 students on fun healthy eating and physical activity adventures so they can have the power to play, think and feel great!
Power to Play! has been designed by Registered Dietitians, teachers and students and includes four grade-specific, cross-curricular programs that meet expectations in Health and Physical Education, Language, Mathematics, the Arts, Science and Technology and Social Studies.
Power to Explore! is a junior-level cross-curricular healthy-living program that gives students the power to explore their personal food and activity choices. Students build awareness and develop skills to improve health.
