We Teach! Conference

Save the Date:  April 17, 2015


Athens State University will be hosting a We Teach! Conference.   If you would like to attend please ask your CTE directors to add this to their next year budget for you so you will have extra money to help pay for the field trip.

Monoamniotic or "Mono Mono" Identical Twins

This is a link to both an article and video about monoamniotic or “mono mono” identical twins who were born holding hands.  This is a second link to "mono mono" twins birth that has both a video and article as well.  The second link contains a video of a second female who is, also, pregnant with "mono mon" twins.  They could be used as an instructional tool for teachers who teach Child Development, Parenting, Child Services I & II, and Early Childhood Education I & II.

FDA Proposes Updates to Nutrition Facts Label on Food Packages

The FDA is proposing changes/updates to food package nutrition labels.  If you are teaching courses that relate to nutrition or dealing with food, you may use the information with your students as an instructional resource for current trends in the food industry and or changes to regulations in the food industry.  Follow the FDA link to read the article.

Nutrion and Female Fertility

The Egg Nutrition Center has just released several new articles that would be great resources for the Child Development, Parenting, and Food and Nutrition Courses.  Please visit the link and check out this new and valuable information concerning nutrition and female fertility.

Denise Rucker asked me to share the new FREE (Federal Registry For Educational Excellence) website with you all.  The site is an open database for sharing digital learning resources.  the site will provide educators, parents, and students with a broader inventory of educational materials from federal agencies and public and private organizations.  More that 200,000 freely available resources are included in the new FREE.   Check it out and see if you would like to use it.

Does Vitamin D Prevent Breast Cancer?

This article, Does Vitamin D Prevent Breast Cancer?, contains very informative information.  If you teach nutrition in your classroom, this article could be used to incorporate College and Career Readiness Standards for reading and writing into one of your lessons.

Fish are a great source of vitamin D.  Perhaps, after reading the article, the students could research what makes fish one of the best sources of vitamin D or you may have them research some of the other foods listed in the article.

Socrative

Socrative is a technology tool that all FACS teachers may use.  It is an electronic way to have your students take a test or quiz.  It will give you immediate feedback.  It could be used as a 1-2-3 Exit Slip to allow you feedback on what the students learned from the days lesson.  Teachers and students can use Socrative  on any device with a web browser (i.e. iPod touch, laptop, desktop, tablets, etc.) To join, teachers will need to go to http://m.socrative.com/lecturer/#lecturerLogin and students will need to go to http://m.socrative.com/student/#joinRoom.  Debbie Fanning has shared this information and has recommended it as a great resource.  Once you  join, you should also be able to share test you have developed with other teachers.  This could be a wonderful data base from which all of you to benefit.

ENC-Teacher Exchange program has grown into a 'resource destination' for FCS teachers

 

ENC-Teacher Exchange program has grown into 'resource destination' for FCS teachers

 

March 13, 2013, Park Ridge, Illinois--As you are among nearly 1,000 Family & Consumer Science teachers and nutrition educators that are members of ENC-Teacher Exchange, you may wish to re-visit our web site now that we've populated it with 10 videos on topics ranging from "obesity" and "hunger" to "protein benefits," and made dozens of new downloadable teaching tools available. Click here to visit www.encteacher.org when you get a chance, and be sure to bookmark it for future reference.

 

ENC-Teacher Exchange remains focused this year on obesity prevention, but we've added another new video feature this week that describes how the Dallas Independent School District recently voted unanimously to combat hunger by bringing breakfast into the classroom for all of its 157,000 students. Click here to view "Breakfast in Dallas."

 

ENC-Teacher Exchange was introduced early in 2012 by Egg Nutrition Center (ENC), science division of The American Egg Board in Park Ridge, Ill, and is supported by The American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences.

 

Egg Nutrition Center's contribution to America's efforts to improve the overall health of K thru 12th grade students through better nutrition and regular physical activity is best expressed through the 10 video stories and affiliated downloadable resources we've published to date, each of which highlight practical solutions that are most often spearheaded by teachers and school administrators. These stories are cataloged in ENC-Teacher Exchange channels on YouTube and SchoolTube.

Videos for teachers at all grade levels:

Click here to view "breakfast in Dallas Classrooms" (March 2013)

Click here to view "School Food Do-Over" that describes Memphis City Schools food service (May 2012)

Click here to view "AAFCS Teacher of the Year" Sharon Baillie (March 2012)

Click here to view "Fitness-Nutrition" at Andrew HS in Illinois (January 2012)

Videos for teachers at K thru 5th grade levels:

Click here to view "Go Slow Whoa" at Laredo Elementary (January 2013)

Click here to view "Snacking on Technology" at Laurel Park Elementary in Apex, NC (October 2012)

Click here to view "Gold School Danville" about the nation's first grade school school (Northeast Elementary) that earned the Gold Award from "Schools For a Healthier Generation" (June 2012)

Videos specifically about "nutrition" for teachers at all grade levels:

Click here to view "Deconstructing Obesity" by Boston pediatrician Ron Kleinman (January 2012)

Click here to view "Nutrition Experts on Protein" (October 2012)
Click here to view 2-minute promotional video on home page that briefly describes the ENC-Teacher Exchange program.

Click here for quick view of all the downloadable teacher resources that accompany each of the videos on the ENC-Teacher Exchange site.

Source:  ENC-Teacher Exchange

"Cuts of Beef: What's in a name?"

"Cuts of beef: What's in a name?" is a great article to have your students read about the different cuts of beef.  It does a great job of explaining from where the cuts of beef come and how to cook them.  After the students have read the article, provide the students with an assignment (i.e. a one page paper defending the cut of beef and cooking method they would use for a holiday celebration providing evidence from the text or the students read the article, choose a cut of beef and a cooking method, go to the lab and use the cooking method for the cut of beef, and then write a lab report evaluating and defending their choice).  If the assignment you provide for your students also involves writing, then cross walk the assignments using both the Reading and Writing Science and Technical standards from Appendix D in the ELA course of study.  Reading by itself does not utilize the reading standards, the reading assignment must accompany another type of assignment.  Be sure to document the standards in your lesson plans.  At the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year, all teachers will be required to teach the new reading and writing literacy standards, this will help you to get started and hopefully provide you with a better understanding of how to use the standards within the FACS subject matter.

ENC-Teacher Exchange: an Egg Nutrition Center program

ENC-Teacher Exchange offers
new resources to combat obesity
January 22, 2013, Park Ridge, Ill.— Color-coding foods into three categories that mimic a traffic light to help elementary school students distinguish good foods (green light) from unhealthy foods (red light) is proving to be a very successful nutrition education device in Colorado and elsewhere.

And that’s precisely why the "Go Slow Whoa" color-schemed system introduced three years ago at Laredo Elementary School in Aurora, Col. is featured this month by
ENC-Teacher Exchange , a free web-based program for teachers that offers new and updated teaching methods that can help combat rising obesity trends in K thru 12 schools.

The success of Laredo Elementary’s "
Go Slow Whoa" program is illustrated on the ENC-Teacher Exchange web site in a brief video that is accompanied by instructional tools that teachers can download at no charge. Laredo is one of 18 schools so far in Colorado that is participating in the education initiative offered by Denver-based LiveWell Colorado, a non-profit organization committed to preventing and reducing obesity in the state by promoting healthy eating and active living.

ENC-Teacher Exchange was introduced a year ago by
Egg Nutrition Center(ENC), science division of The American Egg Board in Park Ridge, Ill. Egg Nutrition Center’s contribution to America’s battle against obesity in elementary and high schools is expressed in two ways:

• Showcasing teachers and schools that have created successful programs for combating obesity.

• Encouraging teachers to create and submit new ideas so that other teachers can learn and benefit from them.

Health, nutrition and physical education teachers in all 134,000 U.S. schools are invited to become members of ENC-Teacher Exchange, whereby they’ll receive E-mail notification when new video stories or teaching tools are added. Click here for easy online application. 

ENC-Teacher Exchange is supported by
The American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (aafcs.org). More than 800 AAFCS members are currently enrolled.

K thru 12 teachers are invited to submit new obesity-fighting ideas to ENC-Teacher Exchange, with the understanding that concepts must be developed by teachers into practical teaching tools that can be shared with other teachers in order to qualify for a $500 honorarium. New teaching tools must be worthy of publication on the ENC-Teacher Exchange web site to merit the honorarium. That process usually requires a teacher to begin by sending a one-page concept description to info@encteacher.org. For more information, please E-mail ENC-Teacher Exchange membership manager Linda Tinoco, or phone her at 708-974-3153.
ENC-Teacher Exchange Website address: www.encteacher.org