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Nutrition Education in Public Elementary School Classrooms, K-5
NCES: 2000040
March 2000

List of Tables and Figures

Tables | Figures

Tables

  • Table 1: Mean years teaching and grades taught by public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught self-contained classes: 1997
     
  • Table 2: Mean number of hours or courses taken by public elementary school teachers, K-5, to prepare them to teach about nutrition, by type of training: 1997
     
  • Table 3: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who reported the availability at their school of various resources in support of nutrition education, by geographic region: 1997
     
  • Table 4: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who reported the potential of various resources to improve nutrition education: 1997
     
  • Table 5: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition in school year 1996-97, and for those who taught nutrition, the mean number of total hours taught, by instructional level: 1997
     
  • Table 6: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition, by theextent to which they integrated lessons about nutrition into various subjects: 1997
     
  • Table 7: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition as a separate subject and who integrated lessons into other subjects to a great extent, by various characteristics: 1997
     
  • Table 8: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition, by extent of use of various teaching strategies for nutrition lessons: 1997
     
  • Table 9: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition, who used various teaching strategies to a moderate or great extent, by various characteristics: 1997
     
  • Table 10: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition, who used various teaching strategies, to any extent, by various characteristics: 1997
     
  • Table 11: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition, who reported various barriers to cooperation with their school meals program staff in providing nutrition education: 1997
     
  • Table 12: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition, who reported no barriers to cooperation with their school meals program in providing nutrition education, and percent who reported barriers to a great extent, by various characteristics: 1997
     
  • Table 13: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who reported they or their schools used various strategies to involve parents in the nutrition education of their children: 1997
     
  • Table 14: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who reported they or their schools used various strategies to any extent to involve parents in the nutrition education of their children, by various characteristics: 1997
     
  • Table 15: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition, by the quality of instructional materials currently in use for nutrition education: 1997
     
  • Table 16: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition, by the extent to which they used nutrition education materials they found or developed on their own, by various characteristics: 1997
     
  • Table 17: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, by the extent to which various instructional materials would be useful to them in nutrition education, by instructional level: 1997

Figures:

  • Figure 1: Source of training to teach nutrition reported by public elementary school teachers, K-5: 1997

  • Figure 2: Most formal method used by public elementary school teachers, K-5, to prepare them to teach nutrition: 1997

  • Figure 3: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition, by the placement of nutrition instruction in the curriculum: 1997

  • Figure 4: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition but did not integrate it into history and social studies and mathematics, by various characteristics: 1997

  • Figure 5: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition, who reported their nutrition education instructional materials were high quality, by level of support at the school for nutrition education: 1997

  • Figure 6: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who taught nutrition, who reported their nutrition education instructional materials were high quality, by level of training to teach about nutrition: 1997

  • Figure 7: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, by preferred method for having nutrition education materials distributed to them: 1997

  • Figure 8: Percent of public elementary school teachers, K-5, who would like to receive inservice training on various nutrition topics: 1997

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