FOOD & NUTRITION
Teaching Healthy Eating
Format: 80-90 minute Nearpod Code: KZQAS Description: This interactive Nearpod is focused on how to teach healthy nutrition habits to children. It talks about healthy balance of different types of food, portion sizes, balancing diet and physical activity, and more. |
Introduction to Indigenous Foods
Format: 60-75 minute Nearpod Code: GQKZY Description: This interactive Nearpod provides an introduction to indigenous foods of North America. It discusses the cultural significance of indigenous foods, the ways federal policies have shifted American Indian diets away from indigenous foods, efforts to revitalize and carry on indigenous food practices, and ways to gather and prepare indigenous foods. |
Regaining Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Format: 75-85 minute Nearpod Code: PXEHM Description: This interactive Nearpod shares about efforts for Indigenous food sovereignty in North America, with particular attention to efforts of the Blackfeet, Ojibwe, and Dakota. Attention is paid to the nutritional values of Indigenous food and how much healthier they are for American Indian bodies than highly processed foods more frequently eaten now. Children and teens are shown participating in the collection and preparation of Indigenous foods. |