Do Carrots Make You See Better? A Guide to Food and Nutrition in Eary Childhood Programs

Name: Do Carrots Make You See Better? A Guide to Food and Nutrition in Eary Childhood Programs
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ISBN: 9780876592649

ISBN-10: 0876592647

ISBN-13: 9780876592649

Edition: 2001

Authors: Julie Appleton, Nadine McCrea, Carla Paterson, Nancy Goldsmith

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Do Carrots Make You See Better? is an innovative resource that focuses on practical food learning experiences for children from infancy to age eight. Young children learn about food and nutrition through food preparation, eating together, play, science activities, games, and more. The text guides you as you bring nutrition activities and awareness into your classroom. Involve children in decision-making and food preparation and watch them develop fine and gross motor skills, language and social skills, and early math understanding through counting and measuring.

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Gryphon House, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 8.25" wide x 11.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Carla Paterson teaches in the interdisciplinary Arts Foundations program at the University of British Columbia.

Foreword	p. 5
List of figures and tables	p. 9
Preface	p. 10
Acknowledgments	p. 11
An Introduction to Food Foundations	p. 13
A rationale	p. 14
Foods and food learning	p. 14
Food is a vital part of our lives	p. 14
Roles of adults	p. 15
Ways of learning	p. 15
Children can learn about ...	p. 16
A variety of children's programs	p. 17
A Framework for Learning About Food	p. 19
Introduction	p. 20
The Food and Nutrition Curriculum Development Framework	p. 20
Key principles for formal and informal curriculum	p. 20
Learning and teaching considerations	p. 21
The learning process	p. 22
From framework to implementation	p. 23
Approaches to Children's Food Learning	p. 25
Introduction	p. 27
Children's decision-making	p. 29
Introduction	p. 29
Example of a shared decision-making process	p. 29
Making pizza	p. 29
Other decision-making opportunities	p. 30
Science and mathematics	p. 31
Introduction	p. 31
The body and the senses	p. 31
Science activities	p. 35
Mathematical concepts	p. 45
Sorting and classifying	p. 46
Money	p. 46
Space and time	p. 47
Food cycles	p. 49
Producing	p. 49
Processing	p. 50
Purchasing	p. 52
Preparing	p. 52
Partaking	p. 53
Processing wastes	p. 53
Language, drama, and social studies	p. 55
Curriculum webs of children's books	p. 55
Curriculum webs of cultures and countries	p. 65
Physical activities and motor skills	p. 71
Gross motor skills	p. 73
Eye-hand coordination	p. 74
Fine motor skills	p. 75
Safety and hygiene	p. 76
Physical activities and games	p. 77
Setting the scene	p. 78
Food selection, preparation, and presentation	p. 79
Food selection	p. 79
Food preparation and recipes	p. 79
Food presentation	p. 79
Picture recipes	p. 80
Food and Nutrition Issues and Information	p. 113
Introduction	p. 115
Nutrition guidelines and terms	p. 116
Dietary guidelines	p. 116
The USDA Food Pyramid	p. 118
Common nutrition terms	p. 119
Nutritional needs of infants and young children	p. 124
Infant feeding	p. 124
Young children and their nutritional needs	p. 126
Children with special food needs	p. 129
Food chemicals and associated problems	p. 129
Lactose intolerance	p. 131
Vegetarian diets	p. 131
Diabetes	p. 131
Meal planning	p. 133
Meal planning for early childhood settings	p. 133
Ideas and information for family child care homes and parents	p. 140
Safety and food hygiene	p. 146
Food poisoning	p. 146
Personal hygiene	p. 146
Cross contamination	p. 147
Temperature danger zone	p. 147
Cleaning and sanitizing	p. 147
Sterilizing, preparing, and cleaning infant bottles	p. 148
Pests and their control	p. 149
Safety in the kitchen	p. 150
A food safety and hygiene checklist	p. 150
Information and ideas for parents	p. 154
Food foundations for children	p. 155
Food needs	p. 156
Snack ideas	p. 157
Ideas for the lunch box or evening meal	p. 158
The USDA Food Pyramid	p. 159
Feeding fussy eaters	p. 160
Looking after teeth	p. 161
Making Decisions About Food Foundations	p. 163
Introduction	p. 165
Children's rights	p. 165
Negotiating food foundations	p. 167
Resolving different perspectives	p. 167
A negotiator's guide	p. 167
Attitudes and actions related to food events	p. 170
Negotiating perspectives and practices	p. 171
Sample food education and nutrition policies	p. 172
Policy for food living and food learning	p. 173
Infant and toddler nutrition policy	p. 175
Preschool nutrition policy	p. 177
Nutrition policy when food is brought from home	p. 178
After and before school nutrition policy	p. 179
Family child care nutrition policy	p. 180
A management process for food issues in early childhood programs	p. 181
References and resources	p. 184
Organizations for resources and information	p. 189
Index	p. 191
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