Summer Survivor

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Summer Survivor

• Presented by
• University of Minnesota Extension ServiceClay
  County
• Becky Harrington, 4-H Program Coordinator
• Stacie Loegering, Nutrition Education Assistant

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Summer Survivor

• Overview
• Curriculum
• Evaluation
• Family Involvement
• Questions

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Program Need

• Number of overweight children increasing
• Children consume less healthy snacks and more
  calorie-dense snacks
• Decrease in physical activity among children and
  teens
• Sources
• USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion.
  (2002). Childhood Obesity Causes and
  Prevention. Washington, DC.
• The Governors Council on Physical Fitness,
  Health and Sports.

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What is Summer Survivor?

• Program focused on helping youth develop healthy
  lifestyles
• Collaborative Effort
• 4-H Youth Development
• Nutrition Education Program
• Both part of the University of Minnesota
  Extension ServiceClay County

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Program Outcomes

• Participants will make physically active choices
  when using their leisure time.
• Participants will adopt eating behaviors that
  promote healthy lifestyles.
• Teens will develop and apply skills in program
  planning, delivery and evaluation.

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Staff

• Nutrition Education Assistants
• 4-H Program Coordinators
• Summer 4-H Assistants/Interns

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Funding

• Childcare program sites
• Community Education units
• Grants
• Area Businesses
• Other?

• County Board of Commissioners
• County Extension Service
• County 4-H Federation
• Parks Recreation

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Topics

• Food Nutrition
• Summer Survivor 2003
• Gardening
• Get Down Dirty
• Food and Resource Management
• Show Me the Money

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Program Content

• Six sessions
• 1-1/2 hours in length
• Developed from national 4-H curriculum and other
  research-based sources
• Physical component
• Evaluation
• Teen involvement

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Target Audience

• K-6th grade
• Replicated at many sites
• Neighborhood Recreation Centers
• Parent/Child Educational Groups
• School-age Childcare facilities
• Community Education
• Migrant School
• NEAs program with food-stamp eligible families
• Go where kids are gathered.

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Site Responsibilities

• Provide facilities
• Promote program
• Collect registrations and fees, if applicable
• Site staff present to assist children
• Attend orientation to the program provided by
  Extension staff 
• Complete evaluation

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Scope of Program
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Teen Involvement

• Recruit teens
• Teens develop and teach program
• Train teens
• Ages Stages
• Building relationships with children
• Working with challenging youth family
  situations
• Cooperative games
• Experiential learning model
• Evaluation

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Program Logistics

• Nametags to track participant data
• 4-H Clover and Nutrition Education logo on
  materials
• Door prizes
• Color-code weeks

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Food Nutrition

• Fantastic Foods
• Youth Curriculum Sourcebook
• Topics
• Sugar
• Fat
• Water
• Food Safety
• Healthy Snacks
• Fruits Vegetables

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Food Nutrition Overview

• Review topic from previous week/Introduce topic
• Interactive/hands-on activity
• Physical activity
• Some lessons taste test
• Journal/Review
• Tip of the day on poster
• Review and Door Prizes
• Celebration bringing all sites together

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Fruit Vegetable Jeopardy
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Get Down Dirty

• Jr. Master Gardener Curriculum
• Container gardens at each site
• Topics
• Herbs
• Fruits Vegetables
• Edible plant parts
• How food comes from plants
• Plant environment
• Insects

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Get Down Dirty Overview

• Review last sessions lesson
• Tour site's planters/garden and water if needed
• Introduce new topic
• Activities
• Physical activities
• Review and Door prizes

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Grow Card

• Supplies
• Homemade paper with seeds
• Grow Card instructions
• Ribbon
• Procedure
• Using ribbon, attach grow card instructions to
  homemade paper.
• Give your card to someone special and have him or
  her plant it in his or her garden and enjoy!
• Reflection
• How could you decorate your card?
• What will happen to the card when its planted?

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Show Me the Money

• Financial Fitness for Life Curriculum
• Compiled by Sara Croymans, REE
• Topics
• Earning
• Saving
• Spending
• Credit Lending
• Money Management
• Review Celebration

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Show Me the Money Overview

• Review and I Did It Forms
• Introductions with 5 bill
• Story
• Physical Activity
• Activities, including stretching the food dollar
• Review, Goal Setting, Door Prizes
• Torch Ceremony

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Look What You Can Buy for 10

• Cola, 12 pack
• Potato chips, 14.5 oz bag
• Chocolate bar, 7 oz
• Jelly beans, 13 oz
• These foods
• Do NOT make a complete meal
• Are high in fat and sugar

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Look What You Can Buy for 10

• Bread, 1 loaf
• Corn muffin mix, 1 small
• Rice, 1 pound
• Potatoes, 5 pounds
• Carrots, 1 pound
• Green peas, 15 oz can
• Bananas, 5
• Fruit Cocktail, 20 oz can
• Orange Juice, 6 oz can concentrate
• Kidney beans, 15 oz can
• Tuna, 6 oz can
• Frozen ground turkey, 1 pound
• Eggs, 1 dozen (large)
• Skim milk, 1 quart
• These foods
• Offer one person enough food for 4 to 7 days
• Are high in protein, vitamins, and minerals

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Physical Activity

• Active games
• Tag
• Relays
• Equipment
• Hula Hoop
• Balls
• Jump Rope

• Movement
• Follow the Leader
• Place items around the room

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Three Years of Evaluation Strategies

• Participant
• Pre Post Tests
• Journaling
• I Did It Forms
• Post Test
• Teen
• Self
• Program/Site Staff
• Parent
• Phone
• Post/Pre Test of childs understanding

• Program
• Participants
• Site Staff
• Teens
• Extension Staff
• Parents

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Family Involvement

• Water bottles with logos
• Door prizes (4-H and topic-related)
• Stickers with tip of the day
• Activities within session to bring home and serve
  as discussion starter
• Invitation to end of program celebration
• T-shirts
• Parent evaluations (written and phone
  conversations)
• Plant Stakes
• Posters at site with program information (goals,
  themes)
• Parent Newsletters

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Whats Ahead

• Create bilingual parent newsletter
• Shorten parent newsletter
• Similar evaluations for parents and site staff
• Food Resource Management Divide groups into
  K-2 and 3-5 grades
• Develop scholarship award system to encourage
  teen involvement

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Conclusion

• Summer Survivor brings 4-H and the Nutrition
  Education Program together to help children and
  youth develop healthy lifestyles through wise
  food choices and increased physical activity.

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• Questions?

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Sources

• Minnesota Department of Health. (2001). SOS
  Safe or Sorry Teaching Food Safety. St. Paul,
  MN.
• National Council on Economic Education. (2002).
  Financial Fitness for Life, New York, NY.
• Purdue Extension. (2002). Fantastic Foods. West
  Lafayette, IN.
• Texas Agricultural Extension Service. (2001).
  Jr. Master Gardener Health and Nutrition from
  the Garden. College Station, TX.
• United States Department of Agriculture. (1996).
  Community Nutrition Action Kit For People Where
  They Live, Learn Play. Washington, DC USDA
  Office of Communications.
• University of Minnesota Extension Service.
  (2000). Dollar Works The ABCs of Economic
  Literacy. St. Paul, MN.
• University of Wisconsin Extension. (2002). The
  Youth Curriculum Sourcebook A Guide for
  Developing Nutrition Education Programs for Youth
  Ages Six to Eleven Year. Madison, WI.

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For more information about Summer Survivor,
contact

• www.extension.umn.edu/county/clay
• Becky Harrington, willi107_at_umn.edu
• Stacie Loegering, loege002_at_umn.edu

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Green Vegetables -- 10

• This green vegetable begins with a B and is long
  and thin.
• Jeopardy

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Green Vegetable -- 20

• Name the vegetable thats used to make pickles.
• Jeopardy

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Green Vegetables -- 30

• Name the vegetable that looks like a miniature
  cabbage.
• Jeopardy

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Green Vegetables -- 40

• This vegetable has been grown for more than 4000
  years. . .it grows almost anywhere, and you can
  buy it by the HEAD.
• Jeopardy

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Orange Yellow Vegetables -- 10

• People like this vegetable, and some say rabbits
  like it, too.
• Jeopardy

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Orange Yellow Vegetables -- 20

• Name one kind of squash that is a season.
• Jeopardy

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Orange Yellow Vegetables -- 30

• Maize is another name for this vegetable.
• Jeopardy

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Orange Yellow Vegetables -- 40

• This sweet potato has another name.
• What is it?
• Jeopardy

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Fruits with Seeds -- 10

• Name a small sweet fruit that grows in a patch.
• Jeopardy

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Fruits with Seeds -- 20

• Name a fruit whose name is its color.
• Jeopardy

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Fruits with Seeds -- 30

• This fruit is small and round and comes in
  bunches.
• Jeopardy

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Fruits with Seeds -- 40

• This fruit is one of the biggest fruits and a
  favorite at picnics.
• Jeopardy

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Colors of Fruits -- 10

• Name two yellow fruits.
• Jeopardy

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Colors of Fruits -- 20

• Name a blue fruit thats small and round.
• Jeopardy

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Colors of Fruits -- 30

• Name two red fruits.
• Jeopardy

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Colors of Fruits -- 40

• Name a fruit that can be purple or green.
• Jeopardy