In my 7 years teaching 5th grade at SAS, one of my favorite units was the health and nutrition unit. Even now, I still can’t go past a blog or a book that I think would be complementary to the students’ learning.
So, here you go 5th grade teachers and team, have a look at some of these great websites.
First of all, here is one of the coolest ongoing blogs I’ve seen from a young person, such a simple idea, but you can see from Martha Payne’s latest blog visitor, Jamie Oliver… that she is doing something right. Oh, did I mention Martha is only TEN YEARS OLD? I’ve bought her story on kindle in our library.
NeverSeconds is a blog showing and reviewing school dinners (lunches) around the world that Martha started up to raise a bit of money for her favorite charity, Mary’s Meals. Martha went on to raise almost $200,000 US dollars… that’s well over a million RMB!
#never seconds
Next up, these sites contrast food around the world in the form of a weekly grocery purchase… Where does YOUR family fit in? How different is what YOUR family purchase compared to the families represented from your passport country/country you live in now?
Just yesterday, here is a study of what 30 families eat in one week, which shows the enormous gap between diets in different countries.
Now here is a photo essay from Peter Menzel, and we have his books in our library too.
American Photo Journalist Peter Menzel
Here’s more of Menzel’s work in Time magazine
OK, and here’s something a little extra for all you people living in Shanghai… Check out these before and after shots of Pudong that I found on another great photography site, while I was looking for great nutrition ideas for you. If you click on the images, they fade in and out for before and after effects.
the barefoot librarian 