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The Nutrition Foundation provides accurate information about food and nutrition to help make informed choices for a healthy eating and therefore a healthy lifestyle.
Happy toddlers and young children need the right nutrition for growth and development.
This booklet will help you with all things nutrition for your littlie, setting them up for healthy habits throughout their life. Introducing nourishing foods from an early age encourages children to learn about and enjoy different tastes and textures.
Happy creating and cooking!
Sugary Drinks
Whole Grains
This website provides excellent nutrition information, including resources for under-fives and recipes. Also information on resources, illmesses, programmes etc.
You carry around a pair of cameras in your head so incredible they can work in bright sunshine or at night. Only 2.5cm in diameter, they can bring you the image of a tiny ant or a twinkling star trillions of kilometres away. They can change focus almost instantly and stay focused even when you’re shaking your head around. These cameras are your eyes…
The resources are for New Zealand Curriculum levels 4 – 5,
My Amazing Body is filled with lots and lots (and lots) of flaps you can lift for more info on any given topic, which does a great job of keeping kids engaged. Beyond the already fun writing and terrific visuals.
A printable diagram to learn how muscles function.
Start building good oral health habits early with these fun activities and lesson plans for children of all ages!
Includes worksheets, lesson plans etc. American Dental Association.
Teach students about human anatomy by demonstrating the function and location of organs in the human body. We have a variety of fantastic resources including information charts depicting the skeletal, muscular, nervous, digestive, circulatory and more.
For useful information about food safety
Great resources including family food and guidelines for different age groups.
Kai Maori is made up of kaiwhenua – food from the land, and kaimoana – food from the sea.
Healthy lunchbox ideas, recipes and suggestions From the Heart Foundation.
Ideas and suggestions for healthy lunches. Written in Tongan. From the National Heart Foundation
From the National Heart Foundation.
Information and ideas in Te Reo Maori to help whanau put together better lunchboxes
Samoan language support and ideas for healthy school lunches. From the National Heart Foundation
Ideas and suggestions for healthy lunchboxes. Written in Mandarin. From the National Heart Foundation
Ideas and suggestions for lunchboxes