- Take your students on a walk around the campus every day
- Establish an aerobic moment in class each day when children can dance in place to a variety of ethnic and popular music
- Integrate fruits and vegetables into your math, science, social studies, and language arts curriculum
- Train by example: Don't send students to get your soft drinks; use healthy foods as snack and rewards
- Do not assign television programs for homework
- Teach your students how to read and interpret nutrition labels on prepared foods
- Explore the senses of taste, smell, touch, and sight through food and cooking.
- Incorporate recipes into your math lessons to reinforce weights and measurements.
- When bringing snacks or treats for students, make sure it is healthy, and share the recipe with them.
- Turn a planting lesson in the garden into a sequencing writing activity. (i.e.: First, we turned the soil. Secondly, we mixed in compost. Then, we made eight rows. Etc)
- Use harvested vegetables and fruit to measure weight, circumference, length, and mass.
- For a lesson on perimeter, take the class to measure their garden bed.
- Strengthen observation skills by visiting their garden bed after recess, and documenting the changes they see.
- For younger grades, introduce the different senses by smelling herbs, naming colors, touching different parts of a plant, and listening to the creatures that live in the garden.
