Tips for School Projects
Teaching and Learning
- Connect your Drop the Pop project to existing curriculum (e.g. in health, nutrition, other subjects, or what other schools have done.
- Review past School Project Descriptions for any additional ideas.
Supports and Services
- Consider existing strengths that you can build on from previous years or existing projects.
Physical and Social Environments
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Positive environment make it easier to promote healthier eating habits – here are some ideas that may help create positive environments:
- Promote positive role models (such as the ‘nutrition ambassadors’ at Weledeh School, Yellowknife).
- Reduction of less nutritious choices and more healthy ones (an an example, use some Drop the Pop funding for bowls of healthy foods such as fruit/yogurt that students can grab as a snack).
- Promote healthy eating in the community (as Charles Tetcho School in Trout Lake did one year)
- Promote traditional foods (esp. those high in calcium), such as fish chowders. Join a local cooking group.
Partnerships
- Partner your Drop the Pop activities with existing projects that promote healthy living.
- When designing or implementing your project, partner with others in the community, such as parent advisory committees, student councils, food stores, cooking classes, elders, community groups, hamlets and bands, kids in the kitchen, and many others.
- Partnerships lead to greater impact for sustainable change!
