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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
TED: Jamie Oliver's Ted Prize wish: Teach every child about food.
Jamie Oliver is a Chef who believes the power of food has a primal place in our homes. He starts his talk by saying 4 people will die within the next 18 minutes because of food. Can you believe 2/3 of Americans are over weight or obese? The children currently living now are cutting 10 years of their life based on their diets.
The top 15 deaths in the United States are listed as : Heart Disease, All Cancer, Stroke, Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease, Accidents, Diabetes, Influenza and Pneumonia, Kidney Disease, Septhroemia, Suicide, Liver Disease, Hypertension, Parkinson's Disease, and Homicide. The top 3 causes are health preventable, as well as diabetes. Diet related diseases are the number 1 killer in the United States.
Obesity cost 10% of our health care costs, totaling 150 billion a year. Within 10 years this will double to 300 billion a year. So what can we do to prevent or help the obesity problem in the United States? Jamie Oliver suggest his triangle that will help with the obesity issue in the US: Home, School and Main St.
Home: Parents need to start cooking again. Foods used to be natural, now they are processed and full of perservatives. Parents need to stop eating out or ordering in. Jamie Oliver introduced a 3rd generation obese family. In the video he had all the food that the family eats sitting on the table. The table was full of pizza, corn dogs, hot dogs, ice cream, etc. For three generations this family has not been educated on healthy foods and nutrition. Their portion sizes were out of control and the choices the family had to choose from were more then unhealthy.
School: Schools feed an average of 31 million children a day, mostly twice a day with breakfast and lunch. Schools play a big role in offering healthy lunches and snacks to the children they feed. The problem is not the lunch ladies, but the people who are in charge of funding in the school districts. Accounts, Admins or whoever is controlling the districts budget only allow their schools a certain amount of money to feed these children a day. The schools have to make this money stretch, unhealthy food options tend to be cheaper then healthier food options. Jamie went into schools and showed children different types of fruits and vegetables, many of the children did not know what these foods were. It reminded me of a clip in Super Size me where children were shown pictures of Ronald McDonalds and knew who he was, but they did not know who Jesus or famous presidents were. This is where schools and parents need to work hand and hand to educate children. Jamie suggested children have life skills and home economic classes, he feels young adults should leave with the basics of cooking and know how to make at least 10 healthy recipes.
Main Street: Business could offer cooking lessons and food education to families. Food ambassadors need to be present in grocery stores to help educate people on the foods they eat and help them with healthy recipes. The government needs to work with fast food chains to weine people off the sugar and fats that people have to choose from when they eat out. Support the Obama campaign to fight obesity in the United States. Jamie feels if the United States changes, others will follow.
Jamie concludes his inspirational talk with his wish. Jamie's wish is for children to be educated on healthy foods, inspire families to cook again and encourage Americans to fight obesity!
I really enjoyed watching this video and could not agree more with Jamie on his thoughts. I tell my students to develop healthy habits now, these habits will follow you into adulthood. I also tell my students bad or unhealthy habits are hard to break. I plan on showing my students this video in hopes it will inspire them to want to learn and to be more healthy!
The top 15 deaths in the United States are listed as : Heart Disease, All Cancer, Stroke, Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease, Accidents, Diabetes, Influenza and Pneumonia, Kidney Disease, Septhroemia, Suicide, Liver Disease, Hypertension, Parkinson's Disease, and Homicide. The top 3 causes are health preventable, as well as diabetes. Diet related diseases are the number 1 killer in the United States.
Obesity cost 10% of our health care costs, totaling 150 billion a year. Within 10 years this will double to 300 billion a year. So what can we do to prevent or help the obesity problem in the United States? Jamie Oliver suggest his triangle that will help with the obesity issue in the US: Home, School and Main St.
Home: Parents need to start cooking again. Foods used to be natural, now they are processed and full of perservatives. Parents need to stop eating out or ordering in. Jamie Oliver introduced a 3rd generation obese family. In the video he had all the food that the family eats sitting on the table. The table was full of pizza, corn dogs, hot dogs, ice cream, etc. For three generations this family has not been educated on healthy foods and nutrition. Their portion sizes were out of control and the choices the family had to choose from were more then unhealthy.
School: Schools feed an average of 31 million children a day, mostly twice a day with breakfast and lunch. Schools play a big role in offering healthy lunches and snacks to the children they feed. The problem is not the lunch ladies, but the people who are in charge of funding in the school districts. Accounts, Admins or whoever is controlling the districts budget only allow their schools a certain amount of money to feed these children a day. The schools have to make this money stretch, unhealthy food options tend to be cheaper then healthier food options. Jamie went into schools and showed children different types of fruits and vegetables, many of the children did not know what these foods were. It reminded me of a clip in Super Size me where children were shown pictures of Ronald McDonalds and knew who he was, but they did not know who Jesus or famous presidents were. This is where schools and parents need to work hand and hand to educate children. Jamie suggested children have life skills and home economic classes, he feels young adults should leave with the basics of cooking and know how to make at least 10 healthy recipes.
Main Street: Business could offer cooking lessons and food education to families. Food ambassadors need to be present in grocery stores to help educate people on the foods they eat and help them with healthy recipes. The government needs to work with fast food chains to weine people off the sugar and fats that people have to choose from when they eat out. Support the Obama campaign to fight obesity in the United States. Jamie feels if the United States changes, others will follow.
Jamie concludes his inspirational talk with his wish. Jamie's wish is for children to be educated on healthy foods, inspire families to cook again and encourage Americans to fight obesity!
I really enjoyed watching this video and could not agree more with Jamie on his thoughts. I tell my students to develop healthy habits now, these habits will follow you into adulthood. I also tell my students bad or unhealthy habits are hard to break. I plan on showing my students this video in hopes it will inspire them to want to learn and to be more healthy!
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
ISTE Article Review: Do Web 2.0 Right By: Daniel Light
This article was about teachers implementing Web 2.0 tools in their classrooms to improve student learning. Two teachers/researchers traveled to 22 different schools interviewing 39 educators on how Web 2.0 tools were used in their classrooms, what worked well and what did not work well. The researches found Web 2.0 tools worked best when they were used for on going conversations among students and teachers. There were three main elements that helped teachers create and maintain meaningful communication between their students: Instituting daily practice, carefully considering the audience, teaching and enforcing appropriate behavior.
Blogs were an effective communication tool for creating interest in classroom discussions. The article noted the daily blogs worked best when the teachers prompted the students for a response, verses allowing students to author their own daily blog. When students had to create their own daily prompts, they showed signs of not being motivated, self-conscious about making their work public for all to read, and had nothing meaningful to write about. The most successful blogs were the blogs that were set up as a private communication between the teacher and student. Students were able to express their feelings in the blogs with out being shy, students were able to express their concerns about sensitive issues like bullying. The blogs served as a private journal for the students, teachers felt they were able to understand students feelings and thoughts by reading their private blogs.
Classroom blogs were used to generate discussions, tap into prior knowledge, generate interest, support student debates and provide students with feedback from their peers. Classroom blogs were used a classroom warmups/starters, and student on student feedback. Students learned to give and receive criticism on the blogs.
There are many uses of blogs, I really like the idea of using a blog as a means on communication between teachers, students and parents. Blogs give the shy kids in the class an opportunity to participate and share their opinions and feelings with out fear. I also like the idea that students can learn from one another through blogs!
Blogs were an effective communication tool for creating interest in classroom discussions. The article noted the daily blogs worked best when the teachers prompted the students for a response, verses allowing students to author their own daily blog. When students had to create their own daily prompts, they showed signs of not being motivated, self-conscious about making their work public for all to read, and had nothing meaningful to write about. The most successful blogs were the blogs that were set up as a private communication between the teacher and student. Students were able to express their feelings in the blogs with out being shy, students were able to express their concerns about sensitive issues like bullying. The blogs served as a private journal for the students, teachers felt they were able to understand students feelings and thoughts by reading their private blogs.
Classroom blogs were used to generate discussions, tap into prior knowledge, generate interest, support student debates and provide students with feedback from their peers. Classroom blogs were used a classroom warmups/starters, and student on student feedback. Students learned to give and receive criticism on the blogs.
There are many uses of blogs, I really like the idea of using a blog as a means on communication between teachers, students and parents. Blogs give the shy kids in the class an opportunity to participate and share their opinions and feelings with out fear. I also like the idea that students can learn from one another through blogs!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Hepful Website: We Are Teachers
I found this website to be extremely helpful with new ideas for lesson plans! I found a lesson called obesity ball, that teaches students about fat cells, healthy and unhealthy foods, and incorporates exercise into the lesson... I shared this with the other health and pe teachers at my school as well!
http://www.weareteachers.com/ideas/partnerask/teachingidea?app=9917&grantId=45
http://www.weareteachers.com/ideas/partnerask/teachingidea?app=9917&grantId=45
Friday, April 1, 2011
Article Review: Get Your Students Moving
The article: Get You Students Moving was about blending physical education with what is being taught in the classroom to help students retain information.
The author of this article wrote about five different activities he implemented in his physical education class that covered concepts being taught in the classroom. The author suggest students sit for a long period of time through out the day at their desks. Giving students the opportunity to interact and move around while learning, allows students to refocus and learn classroom material in a new way.
The first example provided was jogging and sequencing for younger students. The students were put into groups where they would jog across the gym and turn over cards with numbers on them. If the students found a number 1 they would run back to the start area and the next team member would run across the gym looking for a 2. The numbers had to be in numerical order, so if the second team member did not bring back a 2, then he or she would run back empty handed and the next team member would go in search of a 2. This activity would continue until all the numbers were brought back to the start in numerical order. Students were developing skills such as, working with a team, communication, patience and concentration to complete these activities.
The author of this article also incorporated technology into his classes, while blending Physical Education and classroom content. During a unit on the Heart, students pretend to be the blood moving through the heart. The students work in groups to narrate and film the path of blood through out the heart and body. The students produce a commercial for the school to watch on how to keep the heart healthy. The students are physically active while learning facts about the heart, retaining information because they are actively engaged in the activity.
This article shared innovative ways to incorporate physical education, classroom content and technology into the classroom to enrich students education. I found this article to be interesting and exciting, I would love to try some of these activities with my students and share this article with my colleagues!
The author of this article wrote about five different activities he implemented in his physical education class that covered concepts being taught in the classroom. The author suggest students sit for a long period of time through out the day at their desks. Giving students the opportunity to interact and move around while learning, allows students to refocus and learn classroom material in a new way.
The first example provided was jogging and sequencing for younger students. The students were put into groups where they would jog across the gym and turn over cards with numbers on them. If the students found a number 1 they would run back to the start area and the next team member would run across the gym looking for a 2. The numbers had to be in numerical order, so if the second team member did not bring back a 2, then he or she would run back empty handed and the next team member would go in search of a 2. This activity would continue until all the numbers were brought back to the start in numerical order. Students were developing skills such as, working with a team, communication, patience and concentration to complete these activities.
The author of this article also incorporated technology into his classes, while blending Physical Education and classroom content. During a unit on the Heart, students pretend to be the blood moving through the heart. The students work in groups to narrate and film the path of blood through out the heart and body. The students produce a commercial for the school to watch on how to keep the heart healthy. The students are physically active while learning facts about the heart, retaining information because they are actively engaged in the activity.
This article shared innovative ways to incorporate physical education, classroom content and technology into the classroom to enrich students education. I found this article to be interesting and exciting, I would love to try some of these activities with my students and share this article with my colleagues!
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