Family Nutrition

Leah Walton2024-10-16T21:24:35-04:00

Welcome to Our Family Nutrition Homeschool Health and Fitness Curriculum

Do you wish your family would eat better? We know God made our bodies to be powered with healthy, nutrient dense foods . . . but how do we get everyone on board? Learning about nutrition together is a great way to get started. This course will introduce the information you are looking for, while also providing worksheets to ensure everyone understands, as well as recipes to make and enjoy as a family.

Getting Started with Our Family Nutrition Homeschool Health and Fitness Curriculum

The Family Nutrition homeschool health and fitness course as presented by Jennifer Needham helps students learn the basics of nutrition and how small changes now can help them be healthier and more fit as time goes on. This course does not advocate an overnight change in eating habit, but supplies information that can be incorporated as each family desires in order to help each member of the family find healthy changes that can be implemented and lived with over a lifetime. The point of Family Nutrition homeschool health and fitness lessons is for each individual family member to learn and use what works for them. It is best to work through these lessons sequentially, as certain terms used throughout are explained in the earlier lessons. Worksheets are included, with answer keys, as well as projects, recipes, and discussion activities.

Overview

14 weeks, 3 days a week
Includes text-based lessons, activities, recipes, answer keys, and links to additional information
Grades Family

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; journal for research and notetaking

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and the first lesson. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

Course Sample for Our Family Nutrition Homeschool Health and Fitness Curriculum

To view a full sample of this course, click here.

Family Nutrition
An Introduction to Family Nutrition

Parents,

Maybe you’re in the camp that sees America’s obesity epidemic as a crisis worth solving. Or perhaps you’re simply an advocate of lifelong learning. In either case, nutrition education is key to living longer, healthier, and happier lives, both for all of us as individuals and for our society as a whole. Recognizing the need for nutrition education is the first step in learning how to eat healthier.

But it’s so hard! But I can’t afford those more expensive healthy foods! But I don’t have time to cook! But . . . but . . . but . . .

Being healthy shouldn’t be painful! Let’s start this journey to better nutrition by realizing that Rome wasn’t built in a day, and you can’t radically transform your lifestyle and eating habits overnight, either. But as you learn more about nutrition, you’ll be making more informed choices about what you put into your body. You’ll also be modeling more positive eating behaviors for your kids and setting them on the right track to healthier eating.

This course is named Family Nutrition because the family who learns nutrition together eats healthier together! And YOU can be that family!

Learn big, but start small when it comes to making changes at home. Incremental change is more likely to stick. So as we go along in the course, if you find an opportunity here or there to implement something your family has learned, go for it! Maybe you could start serving a fruit or vegetable at every meal, or cutting back on your kids’ snacking before dinner, or buying organic strawberries instead of the pesticide-laden conventionally grown ones.

Perhaps a trip to the Farmer’s Market could get your family motivated to eat better, or meeting a weight loss goal, or any number of other things. The point is . . . Learn. And then do what works for you. The more you do, the more your kids will do, and pretty soon all those baby steps amount to real change. Let’s get started!

Course Outline for Our Family Nutrition Homeschool Health and Fitness Curriculum

Weekly Family Nutrition homeschool health and fitness lessons include printable text, worksheets, activities, and recipes to help students learn and apply healthy changes in their eating habits.

Introduction to Family Nutrition

Week 1: An Introduction to Family Nutrition
Week 2: Sources of Nutrition Information
Week 3: Vitamins and Deceptive Food Labels
Week 4: Can You Grow It Yourself?

Organic Foods

Week 5: An Introduction To Organic Foods
Week 6: How Do You Know If A Food Is Organic?
Week 7: Why Do Organic Foods Cost More?
Week 8: Review of Organic Foods

Food Allergies and Intolerances

Week 9: Food Intolerances
Week 10: Food Allergies

Nutrients and energy-dense and energy-deficient foods

Week 11: Introduction to Nutrients
Week 12: Nutrient Density
Week 13: Height, Weight, and BMI, Part One
Week 14: Height, Weight, and BMI, Part Two

** Also included in our lessons will be healthy recipes to try, hands-on activities for your kids, and suggestions for applying your nutrition knowledge at the grocery store! **

More About Our Family Nutrition Homeschool Health and Fitness Curriculum

Parents know families should eat nutritious food to keep bodies healthy, but what makes a food a healthy food? How does it qualify as “healthy”? Well, it all depends on how many good things it contains. The “good things” are called nutrients.

Family Nutrition homeschool health and fitness students learn how to make nutrients work for them by learning to recognize nutrients and how to choose nutrient-dense foods. Discussions about height, weight, and body mass index, or BMI, and how those things relate to overall health are included in these lessons, too. Let’s get started!

DISCLAIMER

While all of the information presented is believed to be accurate, it is not absolutely guaranteed. Please do your own research on the topics discussed and make your own decisions for yourself and your family. Previewing the lessons before sharing them with your children is suggested. Feedback is welcome, as well as suggested corrections if you find some bit of information to be in error.

Nothing in this course is intended as medical advice or to replace the treatment or recommendations of your doctor or other health professional.

External links may be included within the course content; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by SchoolhouseTeachers.com of any of the products, services, or opinions of the corporation, organization, or individual. Contact the external site for answers to questions regarding its content. Parents may wish to preview all links because third-party websites include ads that may change over time.

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Family Nutrition

Length: 14 Weeks
Includes: Lessons, Worksheets, Recipes and More!
Age: Family

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Jennifer Needham

Crystal Calhoun2023-11-14T15:33:25-05:00

Jennifer Needham

Lesson Designer

Jennifer Needham is a homeschooling mom to five incredible kids. Teaching others about nutrition is her…

Quick Start

1. Bookmark the course for easy access during instruction.

2. Click “View Lesson Plan” and organize as desired (on computer desktop or in a printed format).

3. Gather necessary resources as listed in the lesson plan.

4. Click “Go to Class Lessons” and get started.

5. Enjoy the course!

6. Utilize Applecore or your own record keeping system throughout the course.

7. Print a certificate of completion.

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Welcome to Our Family Nutrition Homeschool Health and Fitness Curriculum

Family Nutrition

Jennifer Needham

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1. Bookmark the course for easy access during instruction.

2. Click “View Lesson Plan” and organize as desired (on computer desktop or in a printed format).

3. Gather necessary resources as listed in the lesson plan.

4. Click “Go to Class Lessons” and get started.

5. Enjoy the course!

6. Utilize Applecore or your own record keeping system throughout the course.

7. Print a certificate of completion.

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