Common Threads: Small Bites Virtual (PreK-8)
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The Small Bites Program is a direct education intervention designed to increase nutrition knowledge, vegetable consumption, and variety of vegetables consumed. The curriculum teaches students about nutrition and healthy cooking through a series of eight 1-hour lessons combining nutrition and knife-free cooking. In every lesson, students prepare a healthy snack, using recipes that meet USDA Guidelines, and provide opportunities to learn about and reinforce nutrition concepts and cooking skills. The lessons are grade-level banded, suitable for the in-school or after-school setting and are designed to support core content learning in math, English Language Arts, and science. Cost to purchase.
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Common Threads
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https://teach.commonthreads.org/page/curriculum
Virtual Delivery notes:
Online lessons are now Common Threads Small Bites Virtual; Contains Pre-K lessons
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8 lessons per grade level
Eight one hour classes or sixteen 30 minute classes
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