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Hearty Homemade Chili

Hearty Homemade Chili

Recipe to prepare chili with ingredients for a family size portion or a class sized portion for a school food program.

School Health Grant for Youth **

School Health Grant for Youth **

The goal of the grant is to develop youth-driven and youth-inspired initiatives that encourage and promote healthy living in their school.

The Salty Truth:  Sodium & blood pressure

The Salty Truth: Sodium & blood pressure

Sodium is a part of salt, but it’s also in many other foods and ingredients. Sodium is important for fluid balance, muscle movement, and nerve signals. We get enough, and often too much, from our food.

Gratitude Topic: vegetables & fruits

Gratitude Topic: vegetables & fruits

Students can complete the "Gratitude Topic: Vegetables & Fruits" worksheet that helps them

consider a fruit or vegetable they are grateful for and what it reminds them of.

Teaching Canada's Food Guide:  Toolkit for educators

Teaching Canada's Food Guide: Toolkit for educators

These activities can be used with children to help them:


learn food skills

develop healthy eating patterns

understand Canada’s food guide

Reducing sugary drink consumption - Position Statement

Reducing sugary drink consumption - Position Statement

Heart & Stroke recommends federal, provincial, and/ or territorial governments take multi-pronged action to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks by people living in Canada and in turn help reduce the prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases.

Trees Canada - Edible Tree Grant

Trees Canada - Edible Tree Grant

Eligible projects receive up to $10,000 in funding to cover the cost of purchasing and planting edible trees and shrubs, site preparation, tree maintenance, planting materials and developing education materials.


Benefits of Edible Trees in our Communities:

Edible trees can help address some of the challenges that affect people living in urban areas. They are a beneficial addition to any community.


Increased Access to Healthy Food

While about 1 in 10 Canadians have experienced food insecurity, planting edible trees is a common-sense approach to providing nutritious food.


Improved Physical and Mental Health

Food insecurity is often reported alongside poor physical and mental health, and multiple chronic conditions.


Stronger Community Ties

Edible trees help to strengthen social ties and build a greater sense of community.

School Health Grant for Youth

School Health Grant for Youth

  • The School Health Grant for Youth provides Canadian youth, ages 16 to 19 and enrolled enrolled in secondary or post-secondary school, the opportunity to apply to grant funding ($1000). The goal of the grant is to develop youth-driven and youth-inspired initiatives that encourage and promote healthy living in their school. Project initiatives must align with 1 or more of the following PHAC priorities:

  • Reducing substance-related harms

  • Healthy eating and nutrition

  • Physical activity

  • Positive mental health and well-being

Sweet Potato Pie Cookies

Sweet Potato Pie Cookies

Banana Lentil Muffins

Banana Lentil Muffins

Muffin recipe with ingredients for a family size portion or a class sized portion for a school food program.  

Watermelon Pizza

Watermelon Pizza

Recipe to prepare watermelon pizza with ingredients for a family size portion or a class sized portion for a school food program.

Nutrients For Life - Learning Garden Grant

Nutrients For Life - Learning Garden Grant

A Learning Garden at your school can help students explore and experience the science behind food production.  Apply for a learning garden grant!

Power-Full Kids at school program funding

Power-Full Kids at school program funding

Funding for food and equipment for school programs through President's Choice Children's Charity.

Community Food Action Grant

Community Food Action Grant

The CFA grant program can provide up to $5000 to support community-led solutions to help improve healthy eating in NB by creating greater food security at the community level. Typical actions that are funded through this program include community gardens, community kitchens, bulk buying clubs, farmer’s markets and food related education programs.

Environmental Trust Fund

Environmental Trust Fund

The Environmental Trust Fund provides assistance for action-oriented projects with tangible, measurable results, aimed at protecting, preserving and enhancing the Province's natural environment. (i.e. school garden)

TD Friends of the Environment Foundation Grant

TD Friends of the Environment Foundation Grant

The Foundation supports a wide range of environmental initiatives, with a primary focus on environmental education and green space programs.

Eligible projects include schoolyard greening, park revitalization, community gardens, park programming and citizen science initiatives.

Action Project Funding

Action Project Funding

Learning for a Sustainable Future provides funding for students and teachers to engage their school and community in climate Action Projects. This includes any action that is student-led and contributes to the sustainability of your school or community—the only limit is your students’ imagination!

Go Wild Grants

Go Wild Grants

Since 2015, Canadian primary schools have been going wild with WWF-Canada, leading projects that help build a future where people and nature thrive. From Indigenous reconciliation gardens, ‘no mow’ zones for wildlife, to native plant pollinator gardens, the imaginative projects demonstrate the power of students for nature.

"What does food mean to you" activity

"What does food mean to you" activity

A word association game for students to identify what meaning they attach to certain foods that may reveal things about their preferences, personalities, traditions and past experiences.

BrightBites

BrightBites

Students need wholesome, tasty food & enjoyable eating experiences. BrightBites helps you boost school nutrition by earning fun, easy badges!  Participate as an entire school, or just a single class or student group. When your team earns a badge, you’ll rise up in the BrightBites Hall of Fame!

Healthy eating games and activities

Healthy eating games and activities

Through play-based food activities, children have the opportunity to explore and learn about foods in an engaging way, separate from mealtimes. Food related games and activities are also a great way to expose children to new and non-preferred foods in a gentle and encouraging way, especially for fussy eaters or children who are anxious about trying new foods.


The ideas can be used to engage children in healthy eating experiences, teach them to recognise different foods and encourage them to experiment with new foods, tastes, flavours and textures.

Teach Food First: An Educator’s Toolkit for Exploring Canada’s Food Guide with K-8 students.

Teach Food First: An Educator’s Toolkit for Exploring Canada’s Food Guide with K-8 students.

“Teach food first” focuses on using a food exploration approach to nutrition education that has been linked with long-term, positive eating attitudes and behaviors. This toolkit supports educators with best-practice approaches, resources, and lessons that:

  • Connect with Canada’s food guide and British Columbia Curriculum

  • Are grade-specific and age-appropriate

  • Consider equity and cultural inclusivity

Great Minds Think Outside

Great Minds Think Outside

Great Minds Think Outside is a bilingual hands-on, curriculum-linked, outdoor professional development program that gives educators the skills and resources they need to teach their students outside-whatever the subject matter! Great Minds feeds creativity, improves well-being, stimulates appreciation for nature and encourages environmental stewardship through innovative outdoor learning. This program is the first of its kind in New Brunswick! By offering the sessions in a daily work environment, educators discover the possibilities of teaching in their own schoolyard.

Learning Outside

Learning Outside

We share ideas, resources, and information with child educators to help facilitate learning outside the classroom. 

Kids Exercise List for the Classroom or Home (no equipment required)

Kids Exercise List for the Classroom or Home (no equipment required)

If you are looking for physical activity ideas for children at school or at home, then this kids exercise list (NO EQUIPMENT NEEDED) for the classroom or home should come in handy.

Fitness Games for Kids

Fitness Games for Kids

When working with kids, it’s important to engage them with fun and challenging fitness activities. These fitness games for kids, developed by ACE CERTIFIED Personal Trainer Anna Renderer, can help them learn how to improve their functional movement patterns, cardiovascular efficiency and balance, all while having a good time.

Go Noodle

Go Noodle

GoNoodle helps teachers and parents get kids moving with short interactive activities. Desk-side movement helps kids achieve more by keeping them engaged and motivated throughout the day. GoNoodle is designed with K-5 classrooms in mind.

Ontario Active School Travel

Ontario Active School Travel

Let’s get more kids walking and wheeling to school.  Join the movement to improve children’s mobility and health.

Active and Safe Routes to School: Cycling Resource Manual

Active and Safe Routes to School: Cycling Resource Manual

This manual is intended as a resource for schools, school districts, and  municipalities interested in supporting and encouraging cycling trips by school  community members, including students, families, and school staff.

At my best!

At my best!

At My Best is a free, curriculum-linked toolkit that combines physical activity, healthy eating and emotional well-being for students in Kindergarten to Grade six to inspire healthier choices today and in the future.

Classroom Physical Activity Ideas and Tips

Classroom Physical Activity Ideas and Tips

Springboard to Active Schools: Tips for teachers on how to effectively engage students in active learning and printable sheets of easy-to-use and adaptable activity/energizer cards for different grade levels and learning settings (in-person vs. virtual).

Canada's Food Guide

Canada's Food Guide

Canada’s Food Guide is an eating plan created by Health Canada to help Canadians make healthy food choices. The guidelines were updated in early 2019 and are available in a variety of different languages.

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