CATCH - "Go for Health Series" provides classroom health education for grades K-5. Guided by fitness cartoon models Hearty Heart, Dynamite Diet, Flash Fitness and Salt Sleuth, students learn to identify and adopt healthy eating and more physically active behaviors.

| Kindergarten | 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade |

Kindergarten
"Jump into Health"

Jump into Health is based on the social learning theory. Through classroom learning sessions the child is encouraged to make changes in their eating habits and is motivated to increase their physical activities.

There are 10 sessions designed to aid the teacher with teaching scripts and hands-on techniques explaining why it's important to be healthy and what good health is.

A short story begins with a health wise character named Hearty Heart and his best friend Dynamite Diet. Clever songs and rhymes, nutritious snacks, organized games and reproducible coloring book graphics focus the child on the development of health habits. Included in the manual are reproducible "Family Letters" reinforcing the curriculum in the home environment. Teacher's Manual - 70 pages.
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First Grade
"Everyday Foods for Health"

Everyday Foods for Health is divided into 10 learning sessions of nutrition information and physical activities. It continues with the characters Hearty Heart and Dynamite Diet from the kindergarten story.

Each session is 15-25 minutes of class time. Special sessions are devoted to eating breakfast and including fruits and vegetables in all meals. Learning is made fun and informative through songs, rhymes, reproducible hand outs, activity games and preparing recipes of healthy snacks and taste-testing experiments. Class participation is a deliberate part of the learning experience. "Family Letters" are reproducible for the child to take home. The home letters encourage family participation with more involvement in physical activities and food preparation. Teacher's Manual - 81 pages.
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Second Grade
"Celebrate Health"

The curriculum is divided into 12 nutrition and physical activity sessions. The nutrition sessions focus on dairy products, lower fat and salty foods and increasing fiber foods.

A short story continues involving the characters from first grade curriculum, Hearty Heart & Dynamite Diet, beginning the discussion on fiber and healthy foods. The children are taught about nutrition fact labels and how to interpret the facts for good eating choices.

The lessons are reinforced through reproducible handouts, snacks for tasting, and physical activities that demonstrate fast and slow heart rates. Family home letters to keep parents involved. Teacher's Manual -129 pages.
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Third Grade
"Hearty Heart & Friends"

The lessons begin with the characters, Hearty Heart & Dynamite Diet, from the second grade story, and introduce additional health wise friends. Together these characters go on an adventure to teach the children of Earth all about having a healthy heart. Each chapter begins with another episode in the adventure story, followed up with activities to reinforce the lessons taught in the story.

At the end of each lesson there are series of activities and a summary of what was learned. Throughout the manual CATCH has provided snack recipes that are kid and teacher friendly to prepare. Reinforcement of lessons and parent participation is encouraged with "Family Letters" An FYI (for your information) section ends the manual with background information on several topics emphasized throughout the curriculum, which can help the teacher in responding to student's questions. Teacher's Manual - 240 pages.
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Fourth Grade
"Taking Off"

This is a hands-on series of lessons. The curriculum focuses on changes in specific cognitive or personal attributes, especially the students' knowledge about more health food selections and different types of moderate to vigorous physical activities.

It is a continuation of the story of Hearty Heart & friends from the third grade. Pantomimes and play acting encourage students to develop body awareness when they are doing physical activities correctly. They are taught to recognize the good choices in food selections. There are numerous reproducible hand-outs and action games such as "Snack Bingo. A "Fat Facts" session teaches how to identify foods which contain bad fats and ways to reduce the bad fat. Good choices are encouraged in selecting health lunches and snacks. Students learn how to identify advertisers trying to get them to eat non-health snacks. Fun assignments are part of the learning process, students are given opportunity to create advertising campaigns for healthy foods - groups are assigned to develop TV ads and magazine ads.

Session 10 is all about planning a healthy party and the kinds of foods to prepare and serve. There are recipe cards to get the students started. Hand-outs of recipes and health tips are included with letters to parents which are designed to keep the entire family involved. Teacher's Manual - 369 pages.
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Fourth Grade Supplement
P.A.S.T. (Putting a Stop to Diabetes)

Diabetes is a serious, costly disease that is on the rise. Seventeen million Americans have diabetes and over 200,000 people die each year of related complications. CATCH following the standards set forth by the American Diabetes Foundation, has developed this supplement to provide introductory information about diabetes.

Each of the four sessions of P.A.S.T. Diabetes curriculum will take approximately 30-40 minutes to complete. The curriculum uses a variety of strategies, including cooperative learning groups, large group discussions and goal setting activities. Original copies of all hand-outs are included for each session.

The first session explains what diabetes is, discusses the two main types of diabetes and why it is important to learn about the disease. The second session outlines how physical activity is related to the prevention and treatment. The third session discusses the importance of a healthy diet. Finally the fourth session includes a review of the material presented and involves setting goals to be physically active and eat a healthy diet. Teacher's Manual - 25 pages.
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Fifth Grade
"Breaking through the Barriers"

This curriculum encourages changes in behavior factors that support healthy eating and increasing physical activity patterns by teaching students the skills to select and prepare simple food snacks.

The text teaches the students how to implement positive behavioral changes by using social reinforcement in making the actual changes in eating and physical activity patterns positive steps. The student is encouraged to set personal goals, participate in role playing, and to make healthy food choices in restaurants and cafeterias.

The end chapter is an FYI (for your information) section, containing background information on several major topics emphasized within the curriculum. Teacher's Manual -195 pages.
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Fifth Grade Supplement
F.A.C.T. S.(Facts & Activities about Chewing Tobacco & Smoking)

Cigarette smoking is the single most preventable of premature death in the United States. F.A.C.T.S (Facts & Activities about Chewing Tobacco & Smoking) is a four-session classroom curriculum developed for fifth grade elementary school students.

F.A.C.T.S. was designed to emphasize the dangerous, costly and adverse aspects of both smoking and chewing tobacco. The first session describes all the reasons why using tobacco is undesirable, including long-term, short-term and negative social consequences. The second session outlines the excuses people use for smoking and chewing tobacco. The third session identified the economic costs and healthcare costs attributed to the use of tobacco. Finally the fourth session speaks of the dangers of passive smoking and the ways to support those who are trying to quit smoking.

The curriculum uses a variety of educational strategies, including cooperative learning group discussions and whole language opportunities. Extension of the learning environment is reinforced by demonstrations, reports, role-playing and goal setting. Original copies of all transparencies and student materials needed are included in the manual. Teacher's Manual - 82 pages.
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