In the Covington Independent School district 90% of students receive free and reduce lunch. The Kenton County Cooperative Extension Services Nutrition Education Program Assistant partners with two elementary schools Community Learning Coordinators to help bring the importance of nutrition and physical activity to the students. 

With more than 300 hundred students in the after school program across the Covington Independent School district, the Nutrition Education Program Assistant worked with three groups from third and fourth grades.  

With nutrition curriculum's like Professor Popcorn and Literacy, Eating, and Activity for Primary (LEAP) the Nutrition Assistant was able to demonstrate the importance of eating foods from all five food groups and getting sixty minutes of physical activity a day. With the visuals and activities that Professor Popcorn and Literacy, Eating, and Activity for Primary provides, the students were engaged in what they learned. 

At the end of the six lesson series according to pre and post series data, more than half of the students were able to correctly place foods in the correct food group and try at least one fruit or vegetable that was new to them. One of the Community Learning Coordinators shared, “This series builds on what our students learn in the classroom with real-life hands-on experiences. Thank you for your continued partnership with the after school program.”