“Nourish Interactive: Parents” Nourish Interactive for Parents Link This website can be very informational and helpful for parents. It provides healthy tips for the family that can give parents excellent ideas that they may or may not have thought about yet. This particular area covers picky eaters tips, food safety tips, lunchbox tips, and much … Continue reading Nutrition: Internet Resources for Parents
“Nourish Interactive Teachers” Nourish Interactive Link This site has many tools that would be useful for teachers because it has a variety of educator tools and resources. For example, there are printable worksheets, working with parents tools and materials, and lesson plans for nutrition games. Teachers to keep the students engaged as well as keep … Continue reading Nutrition: Internet Resources for Teachers
Internet Source: Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Link This is a great website for studentS. It is child friendly and has many activities for students to choose from that are in regards to healthy eating. There are coloring activities, curriculum materials, and recipes. This website would be great for a variety of … Continue reading Nutrition: Internet Resources for Students
Super Size Me Summary This film follows Morgan Spurlock through a month of solely eating McDonalds. It shows him each day getting food from the fast food restaurant and him going to the doctor progressively over time. This film covers the dangers of eating too much fast food and reasons why it is bad … Continue reading Nutrition: Documentary
ARTHUR: To Eat or Not To Eat Summary This episode is about a new candy bar coming to town, and while everyone seems to love it, it also gives anyone who eats it a weird side effect that makes them over hyper. Buster then goes on a search as to what is the ingredient in … Continue reading Nutrition: TV Show
How Did That Get In My Lunchbox Author: Chris Butterworth Date of Publication: January 2011 Publisher: Candlewick Press Summary The book is aimed towards children and educating them on the food they are eating. It mentions that food is not grown in the grocery store and then explains the different places that the food they … Continue reading Nutrition: Non-Fiction Literature
I Will Never Not Eat A Tomato Author: Lauren Child Date of Publication: September 2003 Publisher: Candlewick Press Summary This book is here for students to begin to see that trying new foods can be an interesting experience. The story walks through someone being convinced into trying foods they initially thought were going to taste … Continue reading Nutrition: Fiction Literature
Positive: A Memoir “I was beginning to realize that sometimes a person doesn’t get to choose whether she joins or fights. Sometimes the joining is impossible, sometimes the fight chooses you. The universe plucks you- you, specifically- out of all those souls out there and hands you something that makes fitting in and going with … Continue reading Bullying Prevention, Grade 6, Non-Fiction Literature
Posted “I know what you are going to say: sticks, stones, and broken bones, but works can kick you in the gut. They wriggle underneath your skin and start to itch. They set their hooks into you and pull. Words accumulate like a cancer, and then they eat away at you until there is nothing … Continue reading Bullying Prevention, Grade 6, Fiction Literature
Sky High Producer: Disney Year: 2005 Length: 1hr 40mins Rating: PG Film Description: This movie follows Will Stronghold, the son of two very famous super heroes, as he enters a High School for students with super natural abilities. Will has high expectations from his parents to be the best super hero, but unknown to them, … Continue reading Bullying Prevention, Grade 6, Popular Film