About Discover MyPlate
Discover MyPlate is a nutrition curriculum for kindergarteners that encourages healthy food choices and active lifestyles. Because these lessons meet educational standards, teachers can add them to Math, Science, and English Language Arts classes to bring fun into the classroom.
Discover MyPlate Teachers Guide
Discover MyPlate Training Video
Discover MyPlate At-A-Glance Overview
Program Components
- 7 Emergent Readers: mini books to help build literacy skills and teach about the 5 food groups and MyPlate
- Teacher’s Edition: includes the emergent reader mini books along with additional activities and discussion ideas (available in English and Spanish)
- Student Edition (available for print or download as an eBook)
- Student Workbook: includes 19 activities focused on literacy, letter-sound correspondence, counting, sequencing, classifying objects, identifying healthy behaviors, and more.
- 5 “Look and Cook” Recipes:
- Recipe picture cards for age-appropriate healthy snacks (available in English and Spanish on the back)
- Videos of kindergarteners making the recipes
Alignment with Educational Standards
View pages 10-15 of the Discover MyPlate Teacher’s Guide to learn what National Education Standards are met in each of the 6 lessons.
Additional Resources
- Food Cards: 52 graphic cards to help children learn about the 5 food groups (also available in Spanish)
- Food Group Friend Profile Cards: 6 front and back graphic cards to introduce children to the 5 food groups
- Five Food Groups Poster: a poster for your classroom that can be used as a visual aid in discussions about MyPlate (also available in Spanish)
- Reach for the Sky music video: a song that encourages children to get up and move while learning about the 5 food groups
- Discover MyPlate Graphics Library: decals, digital badges, stickers, and more!
- Parent Handouts: information on physical activity and nutrition as well as interactive activities to do at home (available in English and Spanish)