Nutrition is an essential part of elementary instruction, designed to teach students proper eating habits, as well as how to safely prepare foods. Often times, though, it is hard to capture students' interest with anything other than a food sampling. Always trying to find ways to incorporate technology into my daily lessons and activities, I have come up with the idea of creating a Voki (for more info, please visit http://www.voki.com/ -- accounts are free!) to teach students about nutrition.
At my school, once a month, each class receives a Nutrition presentation from the Commission on Economic Opportunity (CEO). One of their very knowledgable presenters (usually Miss Theresa) comes in and presents a twenty to thirty minute lesson on some aspect of Nutrition. After each presentation, students receive a healthy snack and the teachers receive a packet of activities to present to the class as mini lessons.
In addition to the lessons, there are daily announcements to help round out the program. Sometimes making these announcements on a daily basis can be hard, considering all of the morning activities that go on. To help alleviate some of the burden on teachers (and make it fun at the same time), we have decided to create Vokis for each of the twenty announcements every month.
To view the first few installments of our Nutrition Vokis, check out our "Nutrition" section on the right-hand side and click away. As usual, feel free to send us your feedback in the comments section below.
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