EDUCATORS: Kid Power® invites you to use these pre-show and post-show classroom materials designed and selected to further help your students comprehend the valuable lessons learned in the program. Also, check out the activity workbook pages from the comic book.
Teacher's Guides
Kid Power’s Operation Lunch Line 3D
Kid Power’s Operation Lunch Line 3D is designed to reinforce your curriculum in Health and Nutrition with connections to Physical Education, Science (Biology, Anatomy, Energy) and Performing Arts.
Includes:
Vocabulary, Pre-Show & Post-Show Activities and Recommended Reading
Please feel free to adapt this guide to better suit the ages of your students.
Kid Power’s Operation Lunch Line 3D is designed to reinforce your curriculum in Health and Nutrition with connections to Physical Education, Science (Biology, Anatomy, Energy) and Performing Arts. This guide is specifically designed for the Hillsborough County field trip program, and shows how the lessons of the show correlate to the Florida Standards.
Includes:
Vocabulary, Pre-Show & Post-Show Activities, Word Search & Maze, and Recommended Reading
Please feel free to adapt this guide to better suit the ages of your students.
Kid Power & The Planet Protectors
Kid Power and the Planet Protectors is designed to reinforce your curriculum in Earth Sciences, focusing on the environment and conservation. It shows the students in an entertaining way that they must learn about the environment, do specific actions to help and teach others what they know. It examines some of the problems and possible solutions to environmental issues in the air, water and on land.
Includes:
Vocabulary, Pre-Show & Post-Show Activities and Word Search
Please feel free to adapt this guide to better suit the ages of your students.
Kid Power's Comic Activity Pages
Kid Power's Comic Activity Book is designed to aid in the collective efforts to stop childhood obesity. Parents/Teachers/Kids: Use these activity pages from the comic book to reinforce the nutrition and exercise lessons taught throughout the book. These pdf pages ( (2) versions each - one in black & white / and one in full color) are zipped up in a pak and provided in a high quality resolution, so that they can be printed out for use in your classroom settings. Of course we also welcome you to share them digitally to all your tablets or smartphones.
Pak Includes:
Calorie Balance Puzzle, Digestion, Draw MyPlate, Family Portrait, Connect the Dots, Hidden Sugar Search, MyPlate Challenge, Nutrient Puzzle, Serving Size, Sugar Lasso Challenge, Word Search/Maze, & Answer Keys
Additional Resources & Links
Planet Word Search and Key
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Recycle City
Click on any section of Recycle City that you want to tour, or click on the Dumptown Game. You can create your own Recycle City scavenger hunt or go to the Activities area and see other ways you can explore Recycle City. A great way for kids to learn the basics of recycling.
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Walking School Bus
A walking school bus is a group of children walking to school with one or more adults. If that sounds simple, it is, and that’s part of the beauty of the walking school bus. It can be as informal as two families taking turns walking their children to school to as structured as a route with meeting points, a timetable and a regularly rotated schedule of trained volunteers.
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Kids Saving Energy
Games, tips, facts and information for kids to learn how to save energy. Published by the US Department of Energy.
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MyPlate
The US Department of Agriculture has created an excellent resource for learning about nutrition, food and portion control.
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Field Trip Earth
Travel the world via interviews, discussion groups, field reports, essays, slide shows and educator resources. Start on the “Choose a Field Trip” page, and use the airplane cursor to select a wildlife conservation project you’d like to visit.
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The Walking Classroom
The Walking Classroom program is an in-school obesity intervention that promotes health literacy and develops and supports lifelong fitness habits for all students while addressing different learning styles.
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Children of the Earth
Promotes a greater understanding and respect for animals, plants, water, soil, air and energy systems. Helps children comprehend the positive and negative environmental effects of our actions.
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Team Nutrition
Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity.
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Web Rangers
This is the National Park Service’s site for kids of all ages. Activities are presented for three age groups (6+, 10+, 13+) in categories Adventure, Exploration and Discovery. Challenges, puzzles, games and activities designed to educate children about nature and stewardship.
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School Nutrition Association
SNA is the national organization of school nutrition professionals committed to advancing the quality of school meal programs through education and advocacy.
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Wild Kratts
Sadly Eeko World on PBS kids was shutdown, but they continue to have many other activities on their website that teaches kids how they can help take care of the earth and explore it. Using animated characters, children can explore the fun games and educational activities.
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Kids Health in the Classroom
Website promotes elementary exercises, teacher's health guides, and other related resources!
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle; Paper Making Arts and Crafts
Did you know that you can recycle old paper and other items right in your own home or classroom, giving that paper a new life and purpose?
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Recycling Paper Arts and Crafts for Kids
There are many way that we can help create a better, cleaner environment, even in small ways, like dealing with the messes children make.(Thanks to Stephanie Ranford’s Library Class and her student Mary for this great web link!)
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Art from Junk: Recycled Craft Ideas
This website talks about recycling and how it is beneficial for everyone. It advocates recycled art ideas and eco crafts for kids! (Thanks to Deb Kearney's Library Class for finding this cool resource on how to make art from recycling!)
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Go Green at Home! For Kids & Adults
(Thanks to Girl Scout Leader Faith Green and her daughter Liz for sharing a wonderful web link on different ways to recycle in the home!)
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