Dear Teacher:

Thank you for ordering Health Protectors, your one-day Healthy Choice Kit for grades 3-8. The lesson plan also allows you to extend the lesson beyond one day. Please pass the materials along to interested colleagues.

Health Protectors allows you and your students to discover the role that eating habits play in reducing or enhancing the risk of major diseases. Students need to understand the importance of healthy eating, as the USDA has found that half of all children eat less than one serving of fruit a day.

The Healthy Choice Kit is designed to increase consumption of fruits, grains, legumes, and vegetables through active student participation, attractive graphics and visual aids, and by including parents in the educational process. You will find the following materials enclosed:

* Lesson plan (including extension ideas)

* Lesson masters (Background Information page 1 & 2, What Will I Eat, What Did I Eat?)

* Stationery for family letter

* A list of Internet resources

* Full color classroom poster

* Evaluation card

Please use the evaluation card to help us improve next year's lesson; your feedback is important! You are encouraged to suggest other educators who might wish to receive information about our classroom programs. We look forward to hearing how your class responded to Health Protectors.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Dune, Director

CHOICE (Consumers for Healthy Options in Children's Education) works to promote plant-based meals and
nutrition education in schools. This lesson is adapted from "HeartFest At School" by the American Heart Association.