Power to Grow
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Educator Training: Grade 5
What is Power to Grow?
Power to Grow is a nutrition education program designed to help students understand how the body uses food and offers tools for making informed food choices. If you teach Grade 5, register for this interactive teacher workshop to help you guide students through a wide variety of nutrition topics including digestion, label reading, and media influences on food choices. Program resources help students apply nutrition knowledge and learn skills through personal assessment.
This interactive teacher workshop will include:
- Teacher’s Guide – lesson plans, teaching ideas, student activities, and assessment tools
- 2 posters
- USB – with student activity sheets (French and English), 4 videos to support teaching, and Smartboard ready lessons
* Program materials are only available to teachers who have taken a workshop.
What about Canada's new food guide?
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Resources
What comes with the program
The following resources are provided at no cost to workshop participants
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Teacher Guide
Includes lesson plans, teaching ideas, student activities and assessment tools
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2 posters
Healthy Bodies poster
Sizing Up Food Guide Servings Poster
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Feeding with Love and Good Sense: 6 through 13 years
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USB with student activity sheets
(English and French), Smartboard ready lessons
OPTIONAL MATERIALS
Materials available for purchase
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Food Picture Cards (Bilingual)
A set of 103 food pictures with a food group legend on the back (5”x7”cards).
$ 20.00
Other Materials
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Canada’s Food Guide
Class sets available from Health Canada:
Canada’s Food Guide