WHI-Can (Weigh Healthy? I Can!)
The WHI-Can Program is designed specifically for youth ages 8-19. There are four lessons to help youth understand that everybody is different and how diet and physical activity can play a beneficial role in their lives.
Identify personalized needs in nutrition and the importance of a healthy diet.
Understand natural body differences, build positive body image and self-esteem, and learn to accept own body shape, size, true beauty in one self and others.
Know how to plan balanced, healthy meals by incorporating foods from each food group, then integrating them into daily meals.
Know how to plan healthy meals incorporating foods from each of the food groups and then integrating these into daily meals.
Lesson Format
This curriculum focuses on experiential learning among youth through short lessons and longer educational game sessions. In each 50-minute lesson, teaching and evaluation each spans 10 minutes, and learning is reinforced through up to 30 minutes of fun and versatile educational games. Classroom setting can be as simple as under the shades of a tree or a building outdoor. Teaching contents are written in short, simple bullets format to encourage peer education by trained youth leaders. Evaluation tools in the curriculum closely relate to teaching contents and learning objectives. Educators also have the flexibility of mixing and matching different components of a lesson, depending on available class time.