CORE AREAS
Core Areas
1. Nutrition
Education
Sub- Elements
• Food- Sources and Functions • Poster making
• 5 Food groups • Cooking competitions
• Nutrition • Height and weight check up
• Concept of balanced diet • Canteen Management
• Deficiency diseases and their
dietary management • Nutrition and Health Quiz
• Factors affecting food choices
• Food borne diseases
• Selection and Storage of food
• Good eating habits
• Nutritional status
• Common nutritional problems of
school going children – Their
awareness
2. Health
Education
Suggestive Activities in School
• Concept of health (Physical,
Social, Mental)
• Communicable and non
communicable diseases
• Prevention and cure of common
childhood diseases
• Personal and community
hygiene
• First aid and safety measures
• Physical fitness through P.T.,
Yoga and Meditation exercises
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• Visits to catering units
• Nutrition news – bulletin board,
Articles in magazines written by
students
• Lectures and talks by
Nutritionists, involving students
and their parents
• Nutritious packed lunch parties
• Health check-ups by doctors
• Posters and hoarding
competitions
• Provision of vaccinations
against childhood diseases
• Stage shows/ nukkad
nataks/skits by students related
to health problems and
diseases like Malaria, Plague,
Dengue, T.B, personal hygiene
etc.
• Puppet shows for small
children.