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New Teaching Tools: Nutrition
Throw & Know™ Activity Balls!
Nutrition education matters now more than ever. Rates of overweight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes along with cardiovascular disease resulting from poor dietary patterns and physical inactivity are serious health threats. Most troubling are health issues such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure now developing in young people. For all this reasons, teaching people of every age how to make better nutritional choices is essential.
Health Edco is dedicated to making innovative nutrition education activities, displays, models, and more that are effective, engaging, fun, and impactful. Our latest exciting nutrition teaching tools are our two new Nutrition Throw & Know Activity Balls. Designed in versions for younger children as well as older students and adults, these large, inflatable balls are a great way to review facts about nutrition learned in lessons or to discover important nutritional information to help participants understand why making healthier food and beverage choices matters for better health.
Read on to learn more about these great activity balls, which are part of our colorful line of Throw & Know Activity Balls!
Nutrition Throw & Know Activity Ball
The Nutrition Throw & Know Activity Ball is a great way to put a fresh spin on nutrition education! Designed for grades 7 through adult (ages 12 and up), the large (16" diameter; 24" arc length), inflatable activity ball features 60 questions covering a wide range of nutrition topics, including essential nutrients; added sugars, saturated fat, and sodium; food groups; oils; healthy food choices; calorie balance; and much more. The questions help assess players’ knowledge of essential nutrition information that can guide them in establishing healthy eating habits.
Playing with the ball is easy and allows facilitators to modify play to accommodate group size and the specific needs of their players. Two or more players simply toss the ball to one another. When players catch the ball, they simply answer the question underneath or closest to their right thumb. The included activity guide provides answers to the 60 questions on the ball. Great for health education classes, after-school programs, community education, and more, the inflatable PVC ball is not made with natural rubber latex.
Kids Nutrition Throw & Know Activity Ball
The earlier young people learn about nutrition and develop healthy eating patterns, the better! That’s why we’ve created an activity ball just for them, the Kids Nutrition Throw & Know Activity Ball!
Designed for grades 1 through 6 (ages 6 through 11), the large (16" diameter; 24" arc length), inflatable ball is a fun way for kids to discover the basics and review the essentials about good nutrition and healthy eating. The ball features 48 questions in a kid-friendly format, including multiple choice, true false, open-ended, and more. The detailed activity guide includes an answer key.
Like the ball for older children and adults, the Kids Nutrition Throw & Know Ball is easy to use and offers facilitators flexibility to meet the specific needs of their young people. The ball is designed to be tossed and caught, with the participant who catches the ball either asking the question underneath or closest to their right thumb to the group or answering the question themselves. The PVC ball is not made with natural rubber latex.
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