Resources

Resources come in many forms including video, lesson plans, handouts, activity kits, slides and more. Please contact our office if you need help finding a resource.

Saving Money on Food
Feeding Kids
Beaver Bites
Teacher Resources
School Wellness
Nutrition & Preventing Disease
Home Gardening & Cooking 

Featured Resource:  Childhood Food Insecurity: Health Impacts, Screening and Intervention. FREE On-line course developed by OSU faculty for health care professionals. Continuing medical education credit available.

Featured Publication:  The Power of Prevention (Centers for Disease Control, 2009). Provides overview of chronic diseases, what causes them and at what cost. Builds the case why prevention is so important.

 

Saving Money on Food

Eat Well for Less: A series of self-paced, on-line learning modules for adults. Offers ideas on how to meet some of the challenges of running a household developed by O.S.U. Faculty. 3 Modules on nutrition, food safety and stretching your food dollar.

What's In Your Cupboard: Monthly one-page newsletter in English & Spanish on how to eat healthy and stretch your food dollars.    September  October   December   January  February

10 Quick Grocery Tips:  Handout (4 pages) on simple steps for saving money at the grocery store.

Eat Right When Money is Tight: 2-page handouts from USDA on tips to stretch food dollar  

Feeding Kids

You're the Role Model!  Real life guide for parents on how to help kids eat right and be active from International Food Information Council at www.Kidnetic.com

Tips for Families:  Spanish Version One page flier with nutrition & wellness tips from Klamath Extension. 

Teacher Resources

Start Smart Eating and Reading: Curriculum for K-2nd grade students that emphasis eating breakfast along with nutrition and reading. This curriculum is used by OSU Nutrition instructors in Klamath City & County Schools. Five Modules include: Breakfast Builds Better Brains, Many Foods Make a Morning Meal, More Matters: Fruits & Vegetables, Grains Get You Going, Milk & Movement for Mighty Bones.

Nutrition and Physical Activity Resource List: On-line resources we recommend; most have free/downloadable materials.

Equipment and Visual Aids: We have many fun visual aids that can be incorporated into message of healthy choices. We'd be happy to let you borrow them. Please contact our office for more details at 541-883-7131for creating your own youth nutrition education.

Other Materials: These include handouts and other materials developed by O.S.U. faculty. All have been reviewed for content and readibility.

Click and Go Library from Food Stamp Nutrition Connection

School Wellness

Beaver Bites:  Cut and paste these short nutrition messages into your school newsletter or menu. Most include kid-friendly recipes.
February: Oatmeal Pancake Mix     January: Hearty Taco Soup   November: Pumpkin Pudding   
October: Mix and Match Skillet Meal    September:  Crunchy Vegetable Burrito    

School Wellness Newsletter:  2-page handout for parents and teachers produced by Oregon Action for Healthy Kids & Healthy Kids Learn Better.   Fall 2009

Non-Food Rewards for Classroom: Creative ideas from teachers and for teachers on using rewards other than food.
Ideas from Klamath County  and  Ideas from Benton County    More Ideas

School Celebrations:  Ideas for making celebrations at school fun AND healthy. Offers alternatives to high-sugar, high-fat foods and suggestions for specific holidays. Healthy School Celebrations from Center for Science in the Public Interest

Healthy Snacks:  7-page handout listing snack ideas for schools and other youth events. Developed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.  Healthy School Snacks

Healthy Snack Calculator. Use this to determine whether a food meets the new school nutrition guidelines. SB 2650 establishes statewide nutrition standards on all foods sold outside the School Breakfast/Lunch program in all school locations during regular hours. Calculator sponsored by Oregon Community Health Partnership.

Action for Healthy Kids: National resources focused on changes in schools that will improve nutrition and physical activity choices and ultimately readiness to learn.

Physical Activity in the Classroom:
Recommended Resources         Brochure from Centers for Disease Control    

Handouts from Stewart Trost, OSU Faculty, Presentation (spring 2008)

PE and Academics: Research brief from Active Living Research (Robert Wood Johnson, 2009)

Shape Up Across Oregon
A free program developed by the Oregon Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Schools sign up in February and make their "journey" across Oregon during April by tracking students' activity time. Students are eligible to receive a Certificate of Completion and are entered in a drawing for prizes.

Nutrition & Disease Prevention

Nutrients You Need: One page handout listing of key nutrients, their function in the body and food sources.

Whole Grains: Learn the benefits of whole grains and how to prepare ancient grains.
Slide Presentation

Change your oil and other tips for a healthy heart.
Slide Presentation

Living well Oregon Website    http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/livingwell/lwworkshops.shtml  

Home Gardening and Cooking

Growing food in short growing seasons like Klamath County can be a challenge. Learn from experts at Klamath Basin Research and Extension Center how to be successful--from growing "starts" to cooking garden vegetables.
Produced in 2008, each segment is about 3 minutes long.

From Seeds to Starts           http://oregonstate.edu/media/cfqcrt

Preparing the Soil                http://oregonstate.edu/media/sjbwf

Layout & Design of Garden   http://oregonstate.edu/media/tjkgn

Protecting Agains Frost         http://oregonstate.edu/media/wmqxr

Cooking Garden Greens       http://oregonstate.edu/media/ccmrqd

Managing Common Garden Diseases and Insects  http://oregonstate.edu/media/cdvnsx

Cooking Garden Vegetables:  http://oregonstate.edu/media/cdbztf

More gardening resources:

Extension Gardening Encyclopedia 
Grow Your Own publication
Sign up for Northwest Gardeners e-newsletter
or join our Master Gardener Program

Blending Teaching, Learning and Technology  

Listen to interview with Jeff Hino, OSU Learning Technology Leader, as he describes new ways people are using technology to access information and learning. He describes how Extension Educators can and should invest in learning technologies such as in the video project listed above. 20 minute audio.