Fruit and Vegetable Lesson Plan Pilot Intervention for Grade 5 Students from Southwestern Ontario

Sarah J. Woodruff, Clinton Beckford and Stephanie Segave
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Sarah J. Woodruff: Department of Kinesiology, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada
Clinton Beckford: Faculty of Education, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada
Stephanie Segave: Ontario Student Nutrition Program-Southwestern, Windsor, ON N8W 5C2, Canada

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 22, 1-9

Abstract: The purpose was to create and assess the impact of food literacy curriculum alongside a centrally procured school snack program among grade five students in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Grade five students ( N = 287) from five intervention and three controls schools participated in an 8-week food delivery program. In addition to the food delivery program, intervention schools received a resource kit and access to 42 multidisciplinary food literacy lesson plans using the produce delivered as part of the food delivery program. Participants completed matched pre- and post-test online surveys to assess fruit and vegetable intake, knowledge, preferences, and attitudes. Descriptive analyses and changes in scores between the intervention and control schools were assessed using one-way ANOVAs, paired samples t -tests, and McNemar’s tests. In total, there were 220 participants that completed both the pre- and post-test surveys. There was a significant improvement in fruit and vegetable intake ( p = 0.038), yet no differences in knowledge of the recommended number of food group servings, knowledge of food groups, or fruit and vegetable preferences or attitudes were observed. Integrating nutrition lesson plans within core curricula classes (e.g., math, science, and literacy) can lead to modest increases in fruit and vegetable intake.

Keywords: fruit and vegetables; nutrition intervention; lesson plans; school health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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