I learned a lot from my 20% project. My 20% project focused on the importance of teaching children how to cook. In my Weebly website, I categorized the importance into four major groups.
1) The Importance of Cooking: Cooking is a great opportunity for eduction because it encourages learning. It requires reading, measurement, and following directions. Cooking also teaches healthy eating habits, which is what my 20% project primarily focused on. Having children participate with cooking and choosing to make healthier food options will give them the proper education towards food which will help them for the rest of their lives. Cooking also teaches hygiene and food safety to children. Before cooking, it is essential to wash hands especially when cooking with meats. Children learn about food safety so they know that the food they are cooking will not get others sick. Cooking also educates children about hazards in the kitchen. Children that spend time cooking with hot items will allow them to become successful cooks as adults.
2) If I were to integrate cooking into my classroom, my program would be similar to that of Kids Culinary Arts located in New Hampshire. The program gets kids in the kitchen to teach them to make healthy food. Kids not only have a great time, but they learn the importance of making healthy food over bad food. I believe that children will want to eat the food they create, so why not make their recipes healthy?
3) There are also numerous psychological effects of eating and cooking together as a family. I know personally my life would be different if I did not eat together with my family every night. On psychologytoday.com, they state that a child has much better eating habits if he/she eats with their family at least five nights a week. Eating as a family also helps the problem of childhood obesity. If a child is eating at the dinner table, their portions are controlled, they eat slower, and they are less like to "eat on the run," and not eat fast food.
4) Cooking integrated into the classroom only has positive benefits for children. It has been said that children's grades raise in their other classes from cooking classes. Cooking is a hands on activity that incorporates things learned in the classroom like science, reading, and social skills.
FINAL PRODUCT OF 20% PROJECT
Even though I am technologically challenged, the website creator Weebly was quite simple for me to use. It is connected with my 20% project because I made it easy to use for teachers and students. I also made it kid friendly with bright colors and a lot of pictures. In my weebly site, I even included a simple, fun recipe teachers can incorporate with students in the classroom.
The difficulties I had were my fear of technology. I was stressed to make a final product that I could compare with my peers, since I am bad at using new applications and softwares. But in the end, my peers were really impressed with my final product and my subject in general. Everyone who visited my product at the final showcase seemed very intrigued with my work, which gave me confidence and broke my fear of creating websites.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014
Progress Check
Progress Check
I've been learning a lot about enhancing the youth through cooking. I've been focusing my research on how cooking helps children in planning, making decisions, solving problems, and leading others. Cooking and learning about healthy food options is vital to a child's development to prevent from obesity and other health problems. I need to know more about specific teaching mechanism to help children enjoy cooking more. I would perhaps like to create lesson plans about teaching children how to cook, the importance of eating healthy, and focusing around eating with family. I believe that cooking brings out creativity in children, they can experiment with foods they like, and it also makes them feel independent and mature.
Target Audience
Teachers, most likely teaching classes targeted around health, will benefit from my 20% project the most. I want to try and create lesson plans surrounded my teaching children how to cook. I would focus the lesson plans with easy recipes that are simply to compile in the classroom with minimal recipes. My 20% project could also be benefitted from children to learn the benefits of cooking and healthy eating. Students who are over weight would probably benefit from reading my project to learn the importances of eating healthy. The information in my project will also focus around healthy recipes and the importance of living a healthy lifestyle over a non healthy one.
Product
As stated before, I think lesson plans are the best way to relay information to my target audience, teachers. I think a google site is the best mode to deliver my information. I am not very good with technology, and a google site is easy to compile, and I can attach videos and links to the site easily. Google site's is also a nice way to organize and make any project look professional. My website is going to look youthful, since children will be viewing the site. I will deliver my project with lesson plans, you tube videos, and websites to education children and teachers about cooking and healthy eating.
I've been learning a lot about enhancing the youth through cooking. I've been focusing my research on how cooking helps children in planning, making decisions, solving problems, and leading others. Cooking and learning about healthy food options is vital to a child's development to prevent from obesity and other health problems. I need to know more about specific teaching mechanism to help children enjoy cooking more. I would perhaps like to create lesson plans about teaching children how to cook, the importance of eating healthy, and focusing around eating with family. I believe that cooking brings out creativity in children, they can experiment with foods they like, and it also makes them feel independent and mature.
Target Audience
Teachers, most likely teaching classes targeted around health, will benefit from my 20% project the most. I want to try and create lesson plans surrounded my teaching children how to cook. I would focus the lesson plans with easy recipes that are simply to compile in the classroom with minimal recipes. My 20% project could also be benefitted from children to learn the benefits of cooking and healthy eating. Students who are over weight would probably benefit from reading my project to learn the importances of eating healthy. The information in my project will also focus around healthy recipes and the importance of living a healthy lifestyle over a non healthy one.
Product
As stated before, I think lesson plans are the best way to relay information to my target audience, teachers. I think a google site is the best mode to deliver my information. I am not very good with technology, and a google site is easy to compile, and I can attach videos and links to the site easily. Google site's is also a nice way to organize and make any project look professional. My website is going to look youthful, since children will be viewing the site. I will deliver my project with lesson plans, you tube videos, and websites to education children and teachers about cooking and healthy eating.
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