Topic: Nutrition
NHSA and The National Zoo Field Trips: 2024 – 2025
NHSA and The National Zoo Field Trips are virtual classroom experiences to showcase national Smithsonian treasurers to Head Start students!
Edible Gardening: Five Ways to Grow Food with Kids
Growing edible plants with your class provides exciting opportunities for kids to learn about food origins, eating a healthy diet, and promotes social and emotional learning.
Head Start’s Impact Across Generations
This Academy-nominated short documentary film, Jenny is a Good Thing, documents one of the many significant contributions of the Head Start program: nutrition. National Archives Identifier: 4747085
Webinar: Spring Garden Storytime
Enjoy the Spring garden storytime recording with rhythmic language, colorful photographs and all of the singing, movement and fun activities!
Webinar: How Garden Programs Combat Food Insecurity Recording
Check out this recording and comprehensive list of resources to see how you can best utilize a garden program to combat food insecurity.
Webinar: Winter Garden Storytime
Storyteller Noel Nicholas shares a winter garden storytime session where she reads “Logan’s Greenhouse,” by JaNay Brown-Wood.
Webinar: Fall GroMoreGood Info Session
Learn gardening activities that can be used to promote the health and wellness of young children.
Webinar: Fall Garden Storytime
A webinar recording of a “show and tell” style storytime which shares a song, pumpkins, a story, and an amazing classroom resource.
5 Easy Ways to Engage Kids in Gardening
Gardening and garden space are extraordinary teaching tools for Head Start educators. Here are five easy ways to get started.
Webinar: Snapping our Fingers for SNAP Eligibility
Opportunity to learn about SNAP eligibility from 2 leaders in the field as they share their early success in implementation.
Connecting Families Facing Food Insecurity to Head Start
The recent SNAP rule change is strengthening both Head Start’s outreach to families facing food insecurity and state and local partnerships.