Detailed Lesson Plan
P&G School Nutrition Program
Placement on Continuum of Evidence
Target Audience
The P&G School Nutrition Program is for 4th grade students.
Summary
The P&G Nutrition Program is an educational curriculum to promote healthy eating and physical activity patterns for students in the fourth grade.
Evidence
We were unable to locate any peer-reviewed publications evaluating the effectiveness of this program. The program was developed by Proctor & Gamble with the help of an advisory board of four experts (i.e., a dietitian, exercise physiologist, doctor, and teacher).
Components
The P&G Nutrition program includes an instructor’s manual, student take-home booklet, and in-class curriculum that provides instruction on reading food labels, calories consumed, calories expended, planning a menu, and using online resources to increase knowledge of nutrition and physical activity. The program includes a pre- and post-test to evaluate student progress.
The instructor’s manual provides classroom activities with a learning objective, required materials, preparation and activity time, group sizes for the activity, and notes.
The student’s take-home guide gives the student information about balanced meals, serving sizes, healthy snacks, and different exercise activities. There is a portion of the student take-home guide for parents. This section teaches parents how they can make it easy for their children to make healthy choices, how to make physical activity fun, and it includes three recipes for healthy snacks.
Previous Use
We were unable to determine how extensively this program has been used.
Training
There are no training requirements; the short instructor’s manual may help with implementation.
Considerations
Considerations include, but may not be limited to: (1) buy-in from the classroom teachers; and (2) time to implement these activities within the school day.
The Clearinghouse can help address these considerations. Please call:
Placement on Continuum of Evidence
Target Audience
The P&G School Nutrition Program is for 4th grade students.
Summary
The P&G Nutrition Program is an educational curriculum to promote healthy eating and physical activity patterns for students in the fourth grade.
Evidence
We were unable to locate any peer-reviewed publications evaluating the effectiveness of this program. The program was developed by Proctor & Gamble with the help of an advisory board of four experts (i.e., a dietitian, exercise physiologist, doctor, and teacher).
Components
The P&G Nutrition program includes an instructor’s manual, student take-home booklet, and in-class curriculum that provides instruction on reading food labels, calories consumed, calories expended, planning a menu, and using online resources to increase knowledge of nutrition and physical activity. The program includes a pre- and post-test to evaluate student progress.
The instructor’s manual provides classroom activities with a learning objective, required materials, preparation and activity time, group sizes for the activity, and notes.
The student’s take-home guide gives the student information about balanced meals, serving sizes, healthy snacks, and different exercise activities. There is a portion of the student take-home guide for parents. This section teaches parents how they can make it easy for their children to make healthy choices, how to make physical activity fun, and it includes three recipes for healthy snacks.
Previous Use
We were unable to determine how extensively this program has been used.
Training
There are no training requirements; the short instructor’s manual may help with implementation.
Considerations
Considerations include, but may not be limited to: (1) buy-in from the classroom teachers; and (2) time to implement these activities within the school day.
The Clearinghouse can help address these considerations. Please call: