Chapter 9 - School Nutrition Services
1.  According to Pollit, 1995, what effect does missing or skipping meals have?
2.  What percentage of young people exceed the recommendation for total fat intake?  What percentage get the recommended 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetable each day?
3.  What are the three essential functions of school nutrition services?
4.  What problems exist when students select a la carte foods or eat off campus?
5.  Describe the educational requirements for food service directors or managers.  How does this compare to the preparation of health educators?
6.  Explore the web sites for one of the following and describe its target audience, goals and methods:  Team Nutrition, Eat Smart, Five A Day for Better Health, Healthy Edge or Trimming the Fat.
7.  Describe the current state of collaboration among food service personnel and other components of coordinated school health.  How might collaboration be increased?

Chapter 10 - School Site Health Promotion for Staff
1.  What are the benefits of a school-site health promotion program for staff?
2.  According to a study by the American Association of School Administrators, what health risks were common among school staff?
3.  Give examples of screening, risk reduction education, and organizational policy activities in a school-site health promotion program for staff.
4.  Distinguish between the Seaside Health Education Conference, Schools Healthy Lifestyle Program, Health Enhancement Program, and Planned Action Toward Health.
5.  What three features do successful school-site health promotion programs share?
6.  Distinguish between process, impact and outcome objectives.

Chapter 11 - The State Role in Coordinated School Health AND the MN links
1.  How does the education system in America differ from most countries?
2.  State organizations typically focus on one or more of four key activities for promoting school health.  What are these four areas and give examples of each?
3.  What is the State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards? (MN participates in this).
4.  Review Chapter 3 - page 49, and look at the diagram of the standards based health education curriculum, then visit Minnesota's teacher licensure requirements in Health
a.)  Where do you see evidence of a standards approach in the licensure requirements?
b.)  Under Subpart 3 (titled the subject matter standard), what does point B 3 say?
5.  Visit the MN Graduation Rule Content Standards for Health and Physical Education.  Look at the High School Standard for Individual and Community Health.  What evidence of a standards based health education curriculum do you see here?
6.  Visit the MN Coordinated School Health webpage
The MN infrastructure has two co-directors, one in the Department of Children, Families and Learning and the other in the Department of Health.  In the "About CSH" section identify the names of these two people.  Then, compare the target behaviors listed here with the H.S. content standards in health from #5