Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 1 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 1 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 2 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 5 |
Descriptor
| Health Promotion | 6 |
| Knowledge Level | 6 |
| Elementary School Students | 5 |
| Program Effectiveness | 5 |
| Eating Habits | 4 |
| Grade 3 | 4 |
| Intervention | 4 |
| Nutrition Instruction | 4 |
| Child Health | 3 |
| Food | 3 |
| Obesity | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Health Education Journal | 1 |
| International Electronic… | 1 |
| Journal of Physical… | 1 |
| Journal of School Health | 1 |
| ProQuest LLC | 1 |
| Research Quarterly for… | 1 |
Author
| Benjamins, Maureen R. | 1 |
| Bontrager Yoder, Andrea Beth… | 1 |
| Dawson, John | 1 |
| Dodd, Sara | 1 |
| Griffin, L. Kent | 1 |
| Gruber, Mary B. | 1 |
| Hart, Melanie A. | 1 |
| Hopper, Chris A. | 1 |
| Meaney, Karen S. | 1 |
| Munoz, Kathy D. | 1 |
| Murimi, Mary | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 5 |
| Reports - Research | 3 |
| Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Education Level
| Grade 3 | 6 |
| Elementary Education | 4 |
| Grade 4 | 4 |
| Grade 5 | 4 |
| Early Childhood Education | 3 |
| Primary Education | 3 |
| Grade 2 | 2 |
| Intermediate Grades | 2 |
| Middle Schools | 2 |
| Grade 1 | 1 |
| Grade 6 | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Audience
Location
| Texas | 2 |
| Illinois | 1 |
| United States | 1 |
| Wisconsin | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Download full textValerie A. Ubbes; Sophia Whitesel; Nancy S. Parkinson – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2024
A school-based nutrition education intervention was implemented with second and third graders who used their functional health literacy skills of reading, writing, and speaking to learn about the MyPlate food model from the United States Department of Agriculture. The pretest-posttest intervention determined if children had ever seen the MyPlate…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Health Promotion, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Direct linkSaha, Sanjoy; Dawson, John; Murimi, Mary; Dodd, Sara; Oldewage-Theron, Wilna – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objective: To increase nutrition knowledge, fruit and vegetable preference, eating and cooking self-efficacy among 3rd- to 5th-grade students after a 6-week school-based nutrition education intervention. Design: Quasi-experimental pre-post design. Setting: Title I elementary schools, South Plains, West Texas. Method: A nutrition education…
Descriptors: Food, Nutrition Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Health Promotion
Bontrager Yoder, Andrea Beth H. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Background. High overweight and obesity prevalence has instigated many programs to improve children's health. Farm to School (F2S) is a grassroots-organized program that seeks to improve children's dietary habits, especially fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption, through various educational activities. Long-term goals include reducing obesity…
Descriptors: Child Health, Health Promotion, Agricultural Occupations, School Community Programs
Meaney, Karen S.; Hart, Melanie A.; Griffin, L. Kent – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2009
Fun & Fit is a program designed to create positive physical activity experiences and to promote healthy lifestyle choices among overweight children from low-income African American and Hispanic American families. The program is a collaborative project between Texas Tech University and the Lubbock Independent School District funded through a…
Descriptors: Obesity, Physical Activities, Hispanic American Students, Low Income Groups
Benjamins, Maureen R.; Whitman, Steven – Journal of School Health, 2010
Background: Despite the growing number of school-based interventions designed to reduce childhood obesity or otherwise promote health, no models or materials were found for Jewish schools. The current study describes an effort within a Jewish school system in Chicago to create, implement, and evaluate a school-based intervention tailored to the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Obesity, Jews, Intervention
Hopper, Chris A.; Munoz, Kathy D.; Gruber, Mary B.; Nguyen, Kim P. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2005
This study examined the efficacy of a school-based exercise and nutrition program with a parent component. Third-grade children (N = 238) from six elementary schools participated in the study, with three schools randomly assigned to a program group and the other three schools to a control group. The program group received a health-related fitness…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Eating Habits, Nutrition Instruction, Parent Participation
