Nutrition Assemblies
SCNAC provides a variety of opportunities to incorporate healthy messages into schools and community agencies, including performances and assemblies. SCNAC works with schools to enable students to either perform or watch assemblies about nutrition and physical activity. Willows Intermediate School, Chico High School, and the Rooks semi-professionals soccer team have performed for school audiences across the north state.
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Mission: Nutrition
Students at Chico High School are on a mission to spread the word about the importance of eating a variety of fruits and vegetables. Mission: Nutrition, as they like to call themselves, entertain and educate K-8 students on the benefits of good nutrition and physical activity at FSNE eligible schools in the north state. They are members of the Academy of Communications and Technology (ACT), a smaller learning community at Chico High School that was started ten years ago in an effort to integrate technology and arts with the required curriculum. Through the program, students learn how to create and perform presentations that include acting, animations, videos, and music.
This project involves a unique partnership between the Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion (CNAP), the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, California State University, Chico (CSUC), Chico High School and north state K-8 schools. Under the guidance of nutrition experts at CNAP and the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, the Mission Nutrition Team has put together a unique performance that aims to teach the benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables and being physically active.
Mission Nutrition members travel to K-8 schools throughout the north state to entertain, motivate, and model healthy behaviors to children. In addition to school-wide performances, they also interact with the K-8 audience on a more personal level with visits to the classrooms. Following the performance, Mission Nutrition members split up and visit each classroom. They bring raisin snacks and initiate informal facilitated discussion on the main messages from the performance. This personal interaction also allows Mission Nutrition members to both evaluate the performance and determine students’ response to the main nutrition and physical activity messages.
