School Gardens: Can a Hands-on Teaching Tool Affect Students' Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Fruit and Vegetables?

摘要: Nutrition in the Garden is a garden program designed to help teachers integrate nutrition education into their classroom using hands-on tool, garden. The objectives of this research project were 1) develop activity guide education, specifically as it relates fruit and vegetables, curricula, 2) evaluate whether students developed more positive attitudes towards vegetables by participating program, 3) better nutritional behavior eating after program. Students’ regarding measured with vegetable preference questionnaire divided three sections targeting fruit, snacks. behaviors evaluated through 24-hour recall journals. After gardening, students’ became significantly positive. In contrast, no differences detected fruit. Students also had snacks female younger having greatest improvement snack attitude scores. Even though school gardening improved consumption did not improve due gardening. Overall, average daily study was 2.0 servings per day. This falls short estimated national for age group (3.4 servings) extremely nationally recommended 5.0