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Guide Children to Better Food Choices!
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Teaching Moments on this Tour:
Explore the importance of well-balanced meals and how food affects whole health. Help prevent childhood obesity and diabetes with educational lessons. Understand how vitamins and minerals fuel the body for a healthy lifestyle. Interpret Guiding Stars shelf labels to discover the nutritional value of foods. Discover the roles of producers and consumers in the grocery industry.
Additional learning topics:
- Food Groups
- Portion Sizes
- Recycling
- Organics
MyPlate
Created by the USDA, the MyPlate is a practical tool that shows guidelines for making better food choices - your trip has been updated with these guidelines. Download your own MyPlate here.
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Aligns with Your Local Learning Standards and STEM*
Contributes to Scout Related Awards
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Lessons come to life as children are active, engaged and challenged during this fun and educational Field Trip. Trained tour leaders will customize your trip to be age appropriate and meet the educational needs of your group. See the outline below for the many ways Guiding Stars Store Tours benefits students and scouts.
Tour Highlights and Activity Sheets
Review the Tour Highlights for a detailed outline of the Field Trip content. Don't forget to download the activity sheets designed to help support your lessons! You can use them before the trip to get children excited, or after to continue the learning. (Both are located on the left sidebar)
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| Trip Learning Standards
Health
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- Understands essential concepts about nutrition and diet.
- Knows how to maintain and promote personal health.
- Understands the fundamental concepts of growth and development.
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Mathematics
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- Uses basic and advanced procedures while performing the processes of computation.
- Understands general nature and use of math.
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Working With Others
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- Contributes to an overall effort of a group.
- Displays effective interpersonal communication skills.
- Demonstrates leadership skills.
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Physical Education
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- Uses a variety of basic and advanced movement forms.
- Understands benefits associated with participation in physical activity.
- Understands how to monitor and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
- Understands the social and personal responsibility associated with participation in physical activity.
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| Scout Related Awards
Girl Scouts - Brownie
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- Eat Right, Stay Healthy
- Healthy Habits
- Penny Power
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girl scouts - junior
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- A Healthier You
- Consumer Power
- Food Power
- Highway to Health
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girl scouts - cadette
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- Dollars and Sense
- The Food Connection
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boy scouts
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Look at What Your Colleagues are Saying
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“The children also had fun looking for and counting how many stars there were on different foods. Great tour and experience! Thank you!"
- Amy Millham, PreK Teacher
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“Afterwards, the kids had great retention of what the Guiding Stars meant and which of the food groups each item we investigated belonged to. We had a great time and this trip fit very well into our curriculum!"
- Keri Willey, 3rd Grade Teacher
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“The guiding stars were a big help, and something we had not paid much attention to before. Now our families are talking about how they want to use the stars to eat healthier.”
-Jamie Webb, PreK Teacher
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About the Host
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Arthur Hannaford began selling fruits and vegetables from a produce cart in Portland, Maine, in 1883. Since then, Hannaford has grown to over 160 stores operating in New England and New York that give customers first-class service and quality products at fair prices. In caring for customer health, Hannaford developed Guiding Stars, an easy to use shelf tag nutrition navigation system, to assist customers in finding foods with higher nutritional value. Hannaford also donates over $4 million per year to charities and programs including Coats and Toys for Kids, March of Dimes, Breast Cancer Awareness, United Way, FoodPlay and WinterKids.
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Bus Funding
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We know that while our trips are FREE, your busing situation may not be so cost-effective. We have three different options to help get you to the field trip for FREE too! Click the MORE BUS FUNDING INFO button below to find out your next steps!
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