Indiana: State Developed Materials
CACFP - What's in a Meal? - Healthy Hoosier EditionIndiana Department of Education.
This manual is intended to assist Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) personnel in providing quality, nutritious meals that comply with CACFP meal pattern requirements. Contains sections on nutrition, healthy recipe modification, food labeling, feeding infants, food handling and sanitation, cultural foods, recipe evaluation and crediting foods.
HealthierUS School Challenge Video SeriesIndiana Department of Education.
This series of videos showcases best practices for the HealthierUS School Challenge. The first video in the set provides an introduction to the HUSSC and highlights a corporation that received the silver award at nine schools. The other three videos focus on specific areas of the HUSSC criteria and follow 5 schools from around the state as they work to apply for an award.
Hoosier Champions: School Nutrition and Activity Success Stories (PDF | 2.21 MB)Indiana Department of Education; 2012.
This publication showcases best practices from schools that implemented GameOn! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge. This resource highlights fun and engaging nutrition and physical activities conducted in forty Indiana schools with funding from a 2009 USDA Team Nutrition Grant.
Nutrition LessonsIndiana Department of Education; 2008
These free nutrition lessons, developed by Indiana Team Nutrition, include lesson plans to incorporate in math, science, reading/language art, and combined curriculum classes. All lessons are appropriate for elementary schools, with the goals of promoting nutrition curriculum and education. Lessons for science and combined curriculum classes are also available for middle and high schools. Examples include English Lessons with Citrus Fruit, Floating Orange Experiment, Creating a School Garden, and ideas for field trips.
RECIPE for Growing Healthy Children: Child Care Culinary WorkshopIndiana Department of Education; Purdue University Extension; 2009.
The resources were developed to train child care food service staff on planning and preparing meals and snacks that comply with the Dietary Guidelines and My Pyramid. This on-line training includes both print materials and instructional videos.