The CATCH "Go for Health" series is a classroom health education curriculum for preschool through Grade 5 that teaches children to identify, practice, and adopt healthy eating and physical activity habits, as well as tobacco avoidance. Starting in preschool, the curriculum progresses with age-appropriate concepts and utilizes positive role modeling. The curricula storyline features a group of cartoon characters including Hearty Heart, Dynamite Diet, Flash Fitness and Sally Sleuth. The friendly team motivates children to make changes in behavior so that they can become healthy for a lifetime.

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

Early Childhood
"It’s Fun to Be Healthy!"

CATCH Early Childhood (CEC) is designed to promote physical activity and healthy food choices among preschool children ages 3-5. CEC lesson plans, which include hands-on activities, encourage healthy eating patterns by increasing children’s knowledge and skills towards eating healthy foods. Spanish-English parent tip sheets complement the lesson plans and provide parents with the information necessary to help their children and families make healthy food and physical activity choices. Vocabulary key words are also included in Spanish and French.

CEC PE activities provide children with fun, physical education/activities, specifically aimed at increasing their moderate-to-vigorous physical activity while at preschool. The lesson plans and PE activities, combined with spirited music, colorful hand puppets and other stimulating visuals, create an environment where physical activity, health education, and healthy eating behaviors are valued and taught. Little ones are motivated to walk, run, jump, dance, and move their whole bodies while playing and having fun, as a solid foundation for healthy living is established.

Teacher's Manual, 176 pages.
Item #W17631 Price: $69.95 ea.

CATCH Early Childhood Activity Box
Item # W17632 Prcie: $150.00 ea.

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Kindergarten
"Jump into Health"

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

Ten sessions provide teachers with teaching scripts and hands-on techniques explaining why it's important to be healthy and what good health is.

Healthy messages are delivered by cartoon characters Hearty Heart and his best friend Dynamite Diet. Clever songs and rhymes, nutritious snacks, organized games, and reproducible coloring book graphics help children develop healthy habits. Included in the manual are reproducible "Family Letters" reinforcing the curriculum in the home environment.

Teacher's Manual - 70 pages.
Item #W12216 Price: $19.95 ea.

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First Grade
"Everyday Foods for Health"

Everyday Foods for Health is divided into 10 learning sessions with nutrition information and physical activities, as well the cartoon characters introduced in the Kindergarten curricula.

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 handouts, activity games, and the preparation of recipes of healthy snacks. Class participation is a deliberate part of the learning experience. "Family Letters" are reproducible so that children may take them home to encourage family participation with physical activities and food preparation.

Teacher's Manual - 81 pages.
Item #W12221 Price: $29.95 ea.

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Second Grade
"Celebrate Health"

Celebrate Health is divided into 12 nutrition and physical activity sessions. Nutrition sessions focus on dairy products, selecting low fat and low salt foods, and increasing fibrous foods.

Hearty Heart & Dynamite Diet begin the discussion on fiber and healthy foods. Children are taught about nutrition fact labels and how to interpret the facts to make smart eating choices.

Lessons are reinforced through reproducible handouts, snacks for tasting, and physical activities that demonstrate fast and slow heart rates. "Family Letters" keep parents involved.

Teacher's Manual -129 pages.
Item #W12227 Price: $29.95 ea.

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Third Grade
"Hearty Heart & Friends"

Lessons continue with Hearty Heart and Dynamite Diet, as well as introducing some new 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. 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 students’ questions.

Includes 240 page Teacher's Manual, 60 min. Hearty Heart DVD with video lessons, and a CD with handouts and student worksheets.
Item #11434 Price: $39.95 ea.

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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.

Taking Off 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. Children are taught to recognize good choices when selecting food, such as their lunch and snacks. Numerous reproducible handouts and action games such as "Snack Bingo are included. A "Fat Facts" session teaches how to identify foods which contain bad fats and ways to reduce the bad fat. Students also learn how to identify advertisers that are trying to get them to eat non-healthy snacks. Fun assignments are part of the learning process. Students are given the opportunity to create advertising campaigns for healthy foods and 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. Handouts 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.
Item #W11446 Price: $63.95 ea.
Student workbooks are available (Item #W11450 Price: $14.95 ea.)

Fourth Grade Supplement
P.A.S.T. (Putting a Stop to Diabetes)

Diabetes is a serious, costly disease that is on the rise. Twenty-four million Americans have diabetes, and 1 out of every 3 children born today will face a future with diabetes if current trends continue.

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 handouts 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 of diabetes. The third session discusses the importance of a healthy diet. 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.
Item#W11454 Price: $19.95 ea.

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Fifth Grade
"Breaking through the Barriers"

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

Students learn how to implement positive behavioral changes using social reinforcement. They are 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.
Item#W11458 Price: $36.95 ea.
Student workbooks are available (Item #W11450 Price: $14.95 each)

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.
Item #W11470 Price: $19.95 ea.

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Eat Smart School Nutrition Program Guide For Grades K-8

Eat Smart is a resource for elementary and middle school Child Nutrition Programs. It enables Child Nutrition staff members, administrators, teachers, and parents to work collaboratively to coordinate and deliver healthy food and nutrition education to students.

Eat Smart’s focus is to provide guidance as food service staff purchase, prepare, and promote healthy meals. Eat Smart encourages the consumption of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, foods that contain whole grains, few added sugars, foods that are less processed, and are low in saturated fat and trans fat. Parents, teachers, and administrators can use Eat Smart as a resource to assist them when planning which foods to offer at school functions, class parties, staff development events, and for vending machines and fundraisers.

Eat Smart School Nutrition Program Guide – 97 pages.
Item#W11466 Price: $39.95 ea.

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