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Cooking with Kids motivates and empowers elementary school students to develop healthy eating habits through hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods from diverse cultural traditions. Through cooking classes and tasting classes, students explore varieties of foods using all of their senses, have fun, and exercise choice.

On this website, you will find educational materials developed for our program in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where we work with over 4,300 pre-kindergarten through sixth grade students in twelve public schools.

Curriculum Materials
The complete Cooking with Kids curriculum, available on our on-line store includes lessons for cooking classes and fruit and vegetable tasting classes. Cooking classes focus on dishes from different regions of the world. The curriculum includes lesson plans, instruction for hands-on food preparation, recipes for classroom use, food history and nutrition information, student activities, and take-home recipes. Cooking with Kids curriculum supports interdisciplinary learning in math, science, social studies, language arts, music and art. All student materials are bilingual in Spanish and English.
View a sample cooking lesson.

Fruit and vegetable tasting lessons are available as free downloads. In these fun and simple one-hour lessons, children learn about and taste varieties of fruits or vegetables. Materials include lesson plans, nutrition and food history information, letters from farmers, student activities, and simple recipes.

For more information please download (pdf): Cooking with Kids, Integrated Curriculum Guide
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
March 2009 (Vol. 41, Issue 2, Pages 149-150)
Review by Teri L. Burgess-Champoux

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