Circle with Neto

On 12/5/16 we had a circle with Neto and started off with reading two articles about Depression. We used paper and whiteboards to write down our notes to discuss them later in the circle. It did get very emotional. I learned that when you are born to 18 months you grow trust from how your parents show you love. I also learned that there are 8 stages of development trust, self esteem, curiousness, learning, identity, compassion, stability and wisdom.

Lesson plan

Lesson Plan:

Name: “ What is ‘healthy’?”  Makenzie hernandez, Paige Dieckmann, Audrey DeVenuto, Alyssiana Hugel

Date presenting:11/4/16

Grade Level: 6th & 7th

Length:

Leave from high school at 10:15

Leave from middle school at 1:30

Topic:

Nutrition and the importance of good eating habits

I. Objective:

To teach students about the importance of healthy food and snacks and to try to steer them away from their usual sugary and non-nutritional foods

Purpose:

To teach students about the importance of healthy food and snacks and to try to steer them away from their usual sugary and non-nutritional foods

Materials:

• Dixie cups

• Blender
• Large bowl
• One bag of crushed Ice
• 1 large Banana
• A pack of strawberries
• 1 Avocado
• Dino kale
• A pack of blueberries
• 32 oz of all natural  greek yogurt
• A mixing tool
• Ice chest
• Z bar
• Quest bar
• Empty starbucks cup
• 12 oz coca cola
• Milk chocolate kisses
• A bag of mini carrots
• Two small bowls
• Whole grain gluten free bread
• Unsalted organic almond butter

List teacher references

Mr. Shebest

Mr. Sullivan

III. Procedure

1. Lay out a bowl of milk chocolate kisses and another next to it with carrots and see which one kids go to ( take about 5 minutes)
2. Show the flipped classroom video to explain why the kids went to the sugary option and then explain why the carrots are the healthier option and why children and even adults should start choosing the healthier options more (takes about 15 minutes)
3. Show the kids the needed amount of sugar and then show them the amount they consumed per day in 2008 and explain to them how it’s 2016 now, 8 years later ( takes about 5 minutes)
4. Show the physical representation of the starbucks cup, soda, luna bar and Z bar ( takes about 5 minutes)
5. Explain the benefits of this quick and easy snack vs what they would normally eat ( takes about three minutes)
6. Now prepare a smoothie, with ½ a cup of strawberries, ¼ cup of blueberries, 4 leaves of dino kale, ½ avocado, 1 large banana, ¼ cup of greek yogurt, and ¼- ½ of soy milk depending on the thickness (takes about 10 minutes), 1 handful of ice.
7. Give a dixie cup sample of the smoothie to each kid (takes about 3 minutes)

     10.)Explain the benefit of this healthy and yummy snack ( takes about three minute)

     11.)Final step is to hand out the recipes

A. Anticipatory Set:

You need to water plants for them to live. If you water a plant with sewage water, it will die. Just like if you eat junk food now until adulthood, your organs will fail.

B. Body of the Lesson/Input:

The body of the lesson is our flipped classroom video and a lab.

C. Closure:

We will have a paper printed out for them full of questions to answer about the lesson to see what they retained from it and a short evaluation on how they think we taught the lesson this way we could get some feedback on our project. We will save a slot of time at the end for any questions or clarifications they need.

D. Follow-up activity: Independent Practice, Enrichment or Reinforcement:

We will be handing out a piece of paper with pretty broad questions on it such as, “What did you learn today?” and “Will you be changing your eating habits and/or pay more attention to them after this lesson?” The actual template will be pasted  

Google slides

Nutrition Video

Making agar

Making agar was really cool! I never knew what agar was until we started this lab.

Staining was my favorite part of this lab!

Our group is trying to indentify a certain kind of mold, we are not sure if we have identified it.

Unit 1: Nutrition Reflection Assessment

These last eight weeks have flew by me, being a student in the NEW core and I have learned a lot of different components. In the beginning it was challenging to get accustomed to the core and the ways of teaching, but each day has been better for me and has got me more accustomed to this system. This core is all together is motivating by the teachers and classmates. NEW school for me has changed my way of thinking and helps me learn in different ways.This nutrition unit has had me questioning on what I eat and how it can affect my body.

Nutrition did not matter to me at all until this unit. I did not look at nutrition labels when I went grocery shopping with my mom. All we thought is 'well.. this taste good lets get it' not knowing how bad the ingredients were or the grams of sugar and how it affects our body. I This unit has had me more aware of what I eat. It might sound surprising but i had no idea what GMO's (genetically modified organisms were.

These are some signs i found at the farmers market, a field trip we took in this core. Everything at this market was very fresh picked that morning or day before.

This ice cream was made from milk that was from grass fed cows. I didn't know there was a difference on how cows were fed. Although i did know there was different ways they were treated.

When I talked to the farmers here at the farmers market they had no thoughts on GMO 's and did not even want to talk about them. I was surprised and that is when I realized that I need to know where my food is coming from. How Michael Pollan said in the book The Omnivores Dilemma   we need to know what we are eating, where it came from and how it got to our table. He mentioned it is not something he will do everyday but those are some points to think about when making a meal. 

     Everything I do in this core I try to document into my digital notebook. At this moment I am updating and documenting my Iron chef lab. I am doing this lab with five other group members four sophomores and one freshman. We got a mystery box to work with and create a lab, we ended up with strawberries. Using the knowledge we already had about strawberries was that they grow mold fast. We did research and used skills we learned from Tucker on how to research easier. Our thought on it was that organic strawberries will mold faster than conventional because organic strawberries do not have pesticides or chemicals. When I asked a farmer about her thoughts on our lab and what she thought would happen she had different thoughts. Her thoughts were that conventional strawberries will grow mold faster and more. 

The picture on the left shows my evidence of my digital notebook and my updating on my labs. The picture on the right shows strawberries from the farmer we talked too.

    The digestive system is also a big part of nutrition because bad foods don't digest as well. I knew the basics of the digestive system but I learned what the job of each organ is. I explained all of the jobs of the organs in the digital notebook. The organs job is to absorb nutrients and if people it too much unhealthy food then the organs don't have much nutrients to pull away from that and it will affect the digestive system in a negative way.

This hands on lab we made poop, I learned that the large intestines job is to get the shape of the feces and absorbs the nutrients and calories.

All in all I learned a lot in this unit in a way I understand it. This way of learning ha become easier to underdtand and i'm really enjoying it. Now that I have learned a lot more about nutrition I will pay more attention to what I eat and nutrition labels. Even though I won't hunt, gather or grow food everyday to make a plate I can still go to grocery store and pick out healthy food by looking at labels. Nutrition was a big topic and I am glad we learned about nutrition because it makes me more aware of what I put in my body.