Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grants - Institute/Initiative Community Support

Learning about food and nutrition is mandatory in elementary schools across Canada. However, it is often challenging for teachers to teach their students about nutrition as they do not have many engaging and effective teaching tools available. To fill this gap, we created Foodbot Factory, an evidence-based learning tool for nutrition that has a digital game for students to play and lesson plans for teachers. Foodbot Factory was designed for students in Grades 4-6 (ages 8-12) with input from game developers, teachers and dietitians. Our previous research has demonstrated that Foodbot Factory improves students' knowledge of food and nutrition, and that they enjoy using the tool. At present, Foodbot Factory is only available in English. To ensure that all students and teachers in Canada can use it, we aim to translate Foodbot Factory into French. In this project, we will work with professional translators to translate Foodbot Factory into French. A game developer will make the Foodbot Factory game accessible in both English and French. We will engage key stakeholders, including French-speaking teachers and dietitians, to make sure the translated game and lesson plans are suitable and work well for students and teachers. This project is essential to support the national distribution of Foodbot Factory, as an accessible tool that all Canadian students and teachers can use for nutrition education.