This course is led by Teachers College, Columbia University.
“We are what we eat.” This statement is as overused as it is true. What your students eat impacts their ability to concentrate today and their health for the rest of their lives. But, how do we teach about food and nutrition to inspire real change? This course gives you the tools and confidence to empower your students.
You will explore your relationships with food, healthy eating, and your memories — good and bad — of school lunch. You will investigate the challenges of our current food supply. You will realize why education about food and nutrition is essential for today’s students, because they are tomorrow’s adults facing crucial decisions about how we produce and consume food in our changing world.
Throughout this course, we demonstrate activities, share resources, and provide curricula that can be used in school gardens, cooking activities, field trips, and cafeteria tastings. In this course you also learn how learning about food and nutrition can meet standards in science, social studies, literacy, math, art, health and other subjects. The course ends with step-by-step guidance to create a food and nutrition education plan for your students.