title: School nurse demonstrates that mini-grant funding can improve elementary nutrition education.
abstract: The purpose of this demonstration project was to determine whether the school nurse can facilitate changes in the health education curriculum. By making resources and a packaged curriculum available to teachers, and by offering in-service education about these materials, teachers were willing to spend more classroom time on nutrition. The students in each grade level K-6 experienced significant gains in knowledge because of the increased time allotment and the utilization of available materials. It appears that the school nurse can have a positive effect on the health education curriculum.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003479:Curriculum; D005380:Financing, Government; D006266:Health Education / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D012573:School Nursing; D012574:Schools; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States