2010 was a wonderful year for Nourish Interactive and for increased awareness and improvements in childhood nutrition for all children- we want to thank you for your support! It is exciting and rewarding to see more interest in childhood nutrition and nutrition education this past year.
We want to thank each of you, for your support and for sharing our free nutrition education website with your friends, family, colleagues, and communities. You have helped us to reach out to more schools, educators, parents, health care professionals, and communities who can benefit from the FREE interactive learning tools at Nourish Interactive- the FUN Way to Learn About Nutrition!
We hope 2011 is a wonderful and healthy new year for you and your loved ones! We look forward to connecting with you in 2011
Here's the Top Pages for Nourish Interactive in 2010 The most active pages on the website shown in order of popularity- using Google analytics data
As you get ready to ring in the New Year, you may be interested in visiting these pages
Teachers, parents, health care professionals and communities like:
✰ Fun Food and Nutrition Printables Our free printables top the list. Kids learn about the food groups, growing food, farm to table, being active, and more. Choose from learning pictures, color and learn pages, worksheets, food pyramid activity sheets, and word puzzles.
✰ Nutrition Lesson Plans Free lesson plans for teaching kids about nutrition, the Food Pyramid, and making healthier food and physical activity choices. Lesson plans are available online or as printouts, each lesson plan has a free online game or learning tool for classrooms to teach the concepts associated with the lesson plan.
✰ Healthy Goals Tracking Sheets- Printable food and physical activity trackers and diaries- choose from many weekly goal sheets such as; increase fruits and vegetables, healthy breakfasts, Be Active 'Move it Minutes', reduce screen time and more! Print out so the whole family can support healthy goals, with positive reinforcement charts.
✰ Printable Healthy Tips Calendars Each month a new calendar with a quick healthy tip each day for kids and the whole family! Cute graphics and easy tips make our calendars very popular. Parents print and use at home and teachers have used our calendars in classrooms and even requested a entire page devoted to our "tip a day' calendars for kids. Now you can choose from holiday theme seasonal calendars or non-holiday theme calendars for use in your classroom or for handouts to students' families.
✰ Nutrition Tips and Printables for Parents- Our main page for parents with tips, goal sheets and more!
Top Articles by 'Nourish Healthy Kids' each month a new article with tips and facts for parents written by Registered Dietitians and RNs. Here's 2010 most popular topics:
✰Creating a Healthier Lunch, Box...Easier than you Think
✰ Dem Bones, Dem Bones Facts about Calcium and easy ways to increase your child's daily calcium intake
✰ More Fruits and Veggies Please
See all article topics here
Top Games - Most visited and played in 2010
✰ Chef Solus and the Food Pyramid Adventure Game tops this year's list! It is our featured 7-level animated interactive game.
A fun online video game that brings the USDA Food Pyramid to life. Children enter each segment of the food pyramid and learn about the importance of each food group as they dodge animals, find secret passageways and even ride a zipline Children enter a virtual Food Pyramid and learn about each of the food groups, create balanced meals and find the balance between food and exercise. This game was a finalist in the Let's Move's Healthy Games and Apps Challenge!
This game requires a log in so that the child can save their place in the game, accumulate points and test scores. Teachers and parents can receive progress reports for each level completed with tips and activities to try at home about the key messages the child has learned during each level. Children receive certificates for each level completed. Sign Up Here - it's free and FUN!
Top games and learning tools for kids in 2010
Play all healthy nutrition games here including our new games the Harvest Farm Maze and Kids' Cooking Academy
or click here to see all games with descriptions and information about each game
Check back on Friday, December 31st for our TOP printables from 2010.
After we ring in the New Year, we will share the report and feedback from our 2010 Children's Nutrition Survey. We look forward to sharing more and working together to improve children's nutrition in 2011!
What's New and Coming Up Moving in a Healthy New Year:
We are excited and honored to have connected with so many committed parents, educators and communities in 2010 and proud of all the new members and supporters who have been such an important part of Nourish Interactive in 2010. We also appreciate all the support from our website members and our wonderful Twitter friends during the finals for our games in Let's Move Apps for Healthy Kids Challenge.
Nourish Interactive's online learning platform grew by leaps and bounds this past year- with new members, pages, printables, games and tools. We've been listening to your requests to create more tools and printables for use at home in classrooms and created several new areas including our "concerned about your overweight child area for parents with facts, tips and resources.
Also this year, we added a new RECIPE area where you can share your recipes, create a healthy makeover, or find new recipes! Also great news to share is that the entire site including all games, tools and printables are now translated into Spanish. Plus, we have a new section to teach kids about food label with worksheets, learning pages and games. We also added more printables and released new interactive games and tools for teaching kids the facts to develop healthier habits.... with more in development to share with you in 2011!
If you are new to the site we hope you join us and more than 40,000 parent members and 4000 organizations and schools who benefit from our online learning platform. Sign up here. We are a Parents’ Choice Approved Award winning site and honored to be in The American Library Association’s Greatest Websites for Kids
You can also check the box to receive our monthly newsletter ‘Nourish Healthy Kids’ healthy tips articles for parents written by Registered Dietitians, fun printable activity pages, and announcements of our new interactive nutrition games for use at home or school. Learn more here
Find out how you can help to spread the word! Join cities, organizations, schools, websites and blogs leading the way to create a healthier generation by sharing our free bilingual website with their communities.
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