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Internet Kits
** NOTE: The internet kits are being updated. Links to the kits will be posted later this year. **
These Internet kits can be used in parts or you can use the entire kit to help promote healthy messages throughout your district. They have been designed to tie the classroom to the cafeteria to promote a healthy school environment. There are ten different kits, each with a different healthy theme that can be used for each of the ten months during the school year. Be sure to distribute these important resources to teachers in your district to tie in the theme of the month not only in the cafeteria, but also in the classroom. The Department of Education and the Maine Nutrition Network, through a portion of the Team Nutrition grant, bring the Internet kit program to you.
Contents of Each Kit:
Monthly activity- An activity, related to the theme, that can be done by class, grade, and/or school-wide. Examples: Poster contest, taste-testing, menu planning, etc.
Food Service Director's Page - A resource page of useful links relating to the theme, with a quantity recipe relating to the current theme. The recipes may also be provided to send home in family size quantities to promote continuation of the theme at home.
Teachers' Page - Resources and lesson plans for teachers to use in the classroom related to the current theme.
Menu Template - A template for the back of the monthly menu that provides a family size recipe, general information on the monthly theme, links on the web for more family information, and ways to increase intake when appropriate.
Getting Started
Check in with your principals or administrators to get their support.
Introduce the Internet Kits and the activities to the school through your school Nutrition Advisory Committee (NAC).
Introduce the kits at community meetings.
Introduce the kits at a staff meeting held before the community meeting.
Introduce the Internet Kits during the staff meeting held the first day of school.
Offer your expertise as a food service professional to the classroom teacher and students by offering to teach a lesson on a food service subject such as proper hand washing, or food safety. This way, the students see you as an expert and it can open up communication channels with the teaching staff.
Use as much or as little of the kit as you want. The theme can be promoted for a week instead of an entire month, or you can just use pieces of the kit. This could be done by just using a monthly activity or promoting some of the recipes in the cafeteria.
Use the PTC's or PTO's in your school to help promote the idea of the kits to administrators and teachers.
Use parents and/or members of your volunteer program to help implement some of the activities from the kits.
Emphasize the fact that using the kits will be fun and you are not asking the staff to do more work.
Send information about the kits to staff and/or community in newsletters, providing the website address and an explanation of how your school will be using them.
Be patient. If at first you don't succeed, try introducing the concept at a later time.
Click here for suggestions on using the kits effectively
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