Background Information for Presenters Eat Smart. Play Hard.(TM) is about making America's children healthier. It's about practical suggestions that will help you motivate children and their caregivers to eat healthy and be physically active using MyPyramid. The Eat Smart. Play Hard.TM Campaign messages and materials are fun for children and informative for caregivers...

My pyramid - pointers for preschoolers (Spanish...

Eat Smart. Play Hard. Activity Sheets, Bookmarks, Comics, & Stickers Keep kids healthy and moving with tips, puzzles, activities, and bookmarks that give them the tools to shine! These materials are available to download...

USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) developed this activity booklet to help you learn what you need to do to Be Food Safe! Remember, fighting foodborne illness is important for you and your family, so Be Food Safe each and every day...

Crickets By Dr. Greg Sword, Research Ecologist USDA-ARS NPARL, Sidney, MT; gsword@sidney.ars.usda.gov; 406-433-9429 The following is the latest offering in a monthly series discussing ongoing research efforts at the USDA-ARS Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory (NPARL) in Sidney, Mont. People usually don't pay much attention to grasshoppers (or Mormon crickets) until they become very abundant. During these outbreak periods, however, people really begin to care as these ancient pests consume the crops we rely on for food and the vegetation used by our cattle and other grazers such as sheep and wildlife. Consequently, outbreaks of grasshoppers, locusts and Mormon crickets are newsworthy events. This past year alone saw a number of major media reports about outbreaks across the world and even here at home in the western United States...

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The Eat Smart. Play Hard. Activity and Sticker Book is specially designed to help communicate healthy eating and physical activity messages to children ages 6 to 8 and to motivate and encourage them to develop healthy habits early in life. The Eat Smart. Play Hard. Activity and Sticker Book is a part of the USDA Eat Smart. Play Hard.TM campaign. The Eat Smart. Play Hard.TM campaign goal is to motivate children and their families to adopt healthy eating practices and active lifestyles that are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Power PantherTM, the campaign's spokescharacter, and his nephew, Slurp, help USDA to reach children by conveying nutrition and physical activity messages to them in a fun and non-threatening way. The campaign focuses on four basic themes - the importance of breakfast, healthy snacks, physical activity, and balancing what you eat with what you do...

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Target Audience Children, ages 5 to 7 Behavior Objectives Children who participate in this activity will be able to:Identify a variety of healthy snacks Prepare an easy, healthy...

Eat Smart. Play Hard. Brochures, Mini-Posters, Handouts These materials are all available for download. Where indicated, many are also available to order line through Team Nutrition...