1. Eating Smart • Being Active
What’s New?

2. Lesson plans 9 core lessons 3 supplemental lessons
Welcome to Eating Smart • Being Active
Get Moving!
Plan, Shop $ave
Fruits and Veggies: Half Your Plate
Make half Your Grains Whole
Go Lean With Protein
Build Strong Bones
Make a Change
Celebrate! Eat Smart and be Active
3 supplemental lessons
Eating Smart and Being Active During Pregnancy
Feeding Your New Baby
Feeding Your Baby Solid Foods
There are now 9 core lessons instead of 8
Nine lessons provide more time to build rapport with participants while still including food activities in every lesson
Every lesson includes a food preparation activity with participants.
All lessons except the first lesson include a minute physical activity segment where the educator leads participants in physical activity.
There are 3 supplemental lessons as well

3. Materials for implementing
9 core lesson plans
Visuals
Lesson visuals
Physical activity visuals
Worksheets and handouts
Lesson enhancements
There are a number of materials that have been designed for educators and participants
The 9 core lesson plans come with an Educator’s Guide
There are lesson content visuals and physical activity visuals
Physical activity visuals show the Cardio Pyramid with warm-up and celebration circuit
There are full-color worksheets and handouts with photos to use with participants
We will have a variety of lesson enhancements that reinforce messages covered in the lessons

4. Lesson support materials
Activity bins
Food preparation kits
Lesson planning and preparation checklist
Recipe preparation guide
Recipes
Recipe scripts
A variety of materials are available that help support teaching the lessons
Each lesson requires and activity bin to successfully teach it-we will post files on the share drive with instructions on how to create the kits
Food preparation kits can be created listing the supplies needed to teach the food preparation activity in the lessons
Lesson planning preparation checklists will list items needed to teach the lessons
Each lesson includes recipes to choose from for in-class preparation
The activity bin will include scrips for the lesson recipes

5. Knife safety Lesson 1 Proper knife safety skills included in lesson
Paperwork spilt between lessons 1 and 2
Time for food preparation activity in both lessons 1 and 2
Many recipes require the use of a knife
Proper knife safety skills are now a content topic ln lesson 1
Adding knife safety to lesson 1 splits up paperwork needed in EFNEP between 2 lessons and allows time for a food preparation activity in both lessons 1 and 2

6. Farmers’ market segment
Lesson 4 Fruits and Veggies: Half Your Plate
Do Shopping at Farmers’ Markets segment during times of year markets are open in your area
Do Create a Meal segment instead of Shopping at Farmers’ Markets when markets not open
Include information on Seasonal and Simple app
Another new segment is information about farmers’ markets using SNAP benefits
This segment is included in lesson 4 Fruits and Veggies: Half Your Plate
You can do this segment during the times of year that farmers’ markets are open in your area
This is a great time to introduce participants to the Seasonal and Simple app
The last page of the handout provides participants space to write down local farmers’ market information
When markets are not open, do the Create a Meal segment instead

7. Physical activity Let’s be active segment Warm up Cardio
Muscle and bone strengthening
Cool down
The physical activity segments have been completely revised and kicked up a notch
There is a Let’s be active segment in every lesson except lesson 1
Each segment includes a warm up, cardio activity, muscle and bone strengthening activity and a cool down activity

8. Physical activity Warm up
Each segment includes a warm up activity and warm up visual that can be used in class

9. Physical activity Cardio
Option A: Walk Indoors with Leslie Sansone DVD
Option B: Cardio Pyramid with Warm-Up
All lessons (except for the first lesson where we talk about what to expect for physical activities in future lessons) include a Let’s be active segment that is minutes long. Each segment includes cardio with a warm-up:
Educators get two choices for the cardio and warm-up: 1) the Walk Indoors with Leslie Sansone DVD developed by Rutgers; most of you are familiar with this DVD. These segments take at least 15 minutes to complete; 2) the Eating Smart • Being Active Cardio Pyramid with Warm-Up. Early lessons in the series include the Basic Cardio Pyramid. As lessons progress through the series, the educator shows participants how to increase the intensity of the moves, AND a new move is added in each lesson. The Cardio Pyramid with Warm-Up takes about 7 minutes.
Choose one of these options, and use it through an entire series with a group rather than jumping back and forth between the two. Switching back and forth would confuse participants because both options build on themselves from segment to segment.
If you as an educator have some physical limitations, you may want to always use the Walk Indoors DVD.

10. Strength-building activity
Physical activity
Strength-building activity
Strength-building activity
After the cardio activity (walking DVD or Cardio Pyramid), every lesson has a different strength-building activity that targets muscle- and/or bone-strengthening. Some of these activities include calf raises, lunges, and triceps kickbacks.
These strength-building activities take no more than 3-5 minutes to complete.

11. Physical activity training videos
For NPA use while learning
Not for use with participants
There are physical activity training videos you can use to become more comfortable with the exercises.
You can learn and practice the activities before ever using them in class.
This will help you feel more confident in doing the activities with your group
You will NOT use these videos with participants
Links to the training videos will be posted on the share drive

12. Physical activities and activity tracker
Smartphone mobile app
Free app
App store (Apple) and Google Play (Android)
Recipes
Physical activities and activity tracker
Unit price
calculator
Another new feature is the use of the smartphone mobile app
This app is free and available for Apple and Android pones
The app includes access to all recipes and physical activities in the lessons, a physical activity tracker, and a unit price calculator

13. Food preparation Let’s cook activity in every lesson
A big change to the revised curriculum is that all food activities have been changed to food preparations.
Teaching cooking skills to participants is critical to their success in achieving behavior change
Each lesson includes a variety of recipes. You can choose recipes based on which work better in each class setting.

14. This has been a brief overview of the curriculum revisions
More detailed trainings on the changes will follow, so look forward to more information on how you can implement the exciting revisions found in Eating Smart Being Active!
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