RESOURCES

Food Day Coordinator and Host Materials

• Coordinators Guide

Clickhere to get a fuide on being a Community Coordinator, get ideas for Food Day activities, and obtain useful tips for coalition building and planning.

• Guide for Campus Coordinators

Click here to find out how to bring Food Day to your campus! Learn what it takes to coordinate organizations and individuals for Food Day and how to be aneffective Food Day Campus Coordinator.

• Guide for Hosts

Interested in hosting a Food Day event but not sure how to start? This is a step-by-step guide on how to plan Food Day events and has a list of ideas for activities to get you started!

• Media How-To Guide

Click here for advise on publicizing your Food Day activities! This guide provides sample a sample media advisory, press release, letter to the editor, social media tips, and much more!

• Food Day special edition 8-page newspaper
• Food Day Petition (Collect signatures at your event)
• Food Day Petition Postcard
• Food Day Dinner Party Kit
• Food Day Dinner Place Cards
• Combating Junk Food Day (Halloween)
• Disney Healthy Halloween Toolkit
• Food Day Terrible 10 and Terrific 10 Lists
• Industry Opportunities for Food Day
• Restaurant Activities for Food Day

• Food Day Brochure
• Food Day Brochure (En Español)
• Food Day Card
• Official Food Day Poster (18x24), (8½ x11), (11x17)
• Customizable Food Day Poster for Local Events (11X17)
• Food Day Farmers Market Poster (11x17)
• Food Day Ad (8½ x11)
• Food Day One-Page Description
• Sample Proclamation For Mayors and Governors
• Food Day Principles Handouts (one-page descriptions of the principles)
• Food Day Pumpkin Stencils

• Food Day School Curriculum
• Food Day Curriculum Materials
• Guide for Food Day Activities in Schools
• Ecoliteracy: Rethinking School Lunch
• UN FAO - The Right to Food: A Window on the World
• "Nourish" Middle School Curriculum
• Slow Food School Curriculum
• Children's Books About Food

• Food Day Film Screening Guide

A compilation of feature-length films (some provide discounts for Food Day events), short videos, and PSAs.

• Overview of Food Day (on Spices of Life and the Daily Beast websites)
• Morgan Spurlock talks about Food Day (video by Cooking Channel)
• Veria Wellness Food Day commercial
• The Apple Pushers Trailer
• Losing Ground by Environmental Working Group

Food Day Webinars and Conference Calls

• May 2011 Food Day Webinar: Curbing Junk Food Marketing to Kids (slides) and (audio/video)
• June 2011 Conference call for Food Day coordinators (slides) and (audio/video)
• June 2011 Food Day Webinar: Industrial Food Animal Production and the High-meat Diet (slides) and (audio/video)
• July 2011 Food Day webinar: Hungry for Change: A Conversation on Food Security (slides) and (audio/video)

Food Day Recipes

Food Day Logos
JPG, PNG, GIF files available

Food Day Widgets

Food Day Brochure

Food Day Brochure(En Español)

Food Day Ad (8½ x11)

Food Day Pumpkin Stencils

Official Food Day Poster

(18x24)

(8.5x11)

(11x17)

Customizable Food Day Poster(11X17)

Food Day Farmers Market Poster(11X17)

Food Day Postcard Petition

Food Day School Curriculum

(Version with Brand Names) (Version without Brand Names)

If you are an educator interested in getting your school involved in Food Day, please check out the Food Day School Curriculum. It provides teaching tools and example activities for elementary, middle, and high school students.

Guide for Food Day Activities in Schools

Click here to find out how to bring Food Day to your school! This guide will provide ideas for fun Food Day activities on incorporating Food Day principles into lessons and other classroom activities and on celebrating with healthy and tasty school meals.

Ecoliteracy: Rethinking School Lunch

Rethinking School Lunch is a planning framework based on a positive vision: healthy children ready to learn, "food literate" graduates, invigorated local communities, sustainable agriculture, a healthy environment.

Children's Books About Food

Books to engage children in all aspects of food. Cornucopia Collection© is a collection of storybooks that include food in the storyline. Each story is accompanied with an activity to provide the "charge" and to give the child a positive and fun experience of positive food choices, and an interest in food. The books can be used: in after school programs, library readings, bookstore readings, included as programming for family events such as church carnivals, PTA events, garden events, museum programs, camps, festivals, integrated into curriculum, childcare centers.

Food Day Curriculum Materials

(Version with Brand Names) (Version without Brand Names)

This containts materials for printing and projection to go along with the Food Day curriculum. Use them to bring your lessons to life!

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN - The Right to Food: A Window on the World

 

"Nourish" Middle School Curriculum

The "Nourish" Middle School Curriculum Guide offers a rich set of resources to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability. Beautifully designed and brimming with big ideas, the materials contain a viewing guide, six learning activities, action projects, student handouts, bibliography, and glossary.

Slow Food School Curriculum

This kit provides a sensory education course, available in 12 languages, to complement the taste education activities being organized by Terra Madre communities, Slow Food convivia, and people who would like to train their senses to recognize quality food. It can be used for groups of all sizes and ages, such as in the classroom or for a family that wishes to try some of the exercises with their children.

Food Day Film Screening Guide (PDF)

A compilation of feature-length films (some provide discounts for Food Day events), short videos, and PSAs.

Overview of Food Day (on Spices of Life and the Daily Beast websites)

Join chef Nina Simonds and her guest, Executive Director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Dr. Michael F. Jacobson. In the video, Mike describes Food Day and encourages everyone to participate.

"The Apple Pushers" Trailer

Click here to view the trailer for Apple Pushers, a documentary by Mary Mazzio about US immigrants and their struggles, especially regarding access to healthy and affordable foods.

"Losing Ground"

The Environmental Working Group produced this short film with Atlas Films that provides stark images illustrating how federal farm subsidies and ethanol mandates, piled on top of skyrocketing crop prices are supporting an intensive monoculture that kneecaps any hope for a more resilient and diverse food and farm system. Go to www.ewg.org/losingground/ for more information.

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