Final concept map

Last Hoorah!

Well Ladies...
its been quite the semester, and we are almost done!!! I have a lot of the descriptions done for my personal 'parts' of the website as well as the ones i showed you last week. also, i feel like we need to add more to our welcome page to make it more informative. i think that maybe we should re-listen to our podcast and add in some of the things that we talk about in that. also, the big band page... really need to make sure that we get a good guideline on that going!

xo- BONK

We're almost done!

Today we will be working on our individual parts for our website. Let's make sure to go through all of our submitted work and make sure we add all of it to our page. Sunday we should be good to go to put all of our parts together! Keep up the good work. I'm excited to see what our final project looks like!

xoxo
Ali

The semester is coming to an end..

Girls,

This is our last "in class" blog! How sad. It went by so quickly.

Today's Plan:
Work individually on our parts of the website

And we're planning on meeting on Sunday to finish up the site!

Gooood work this semester...You're all wonderful group-mates!

xoxo,

Megan

Hey Bloggers!

I found 3 really cool websites that I think would be great for our website:

www.yumyum.com
www.life.familyeducation.com/foods/eating-out/48922.html?detoured=1
www.spatulatta.com

I'm going to continue to look for some more. Also, I will be working on my powerpoint about different types of ethnic foods and where they come from. We are making great progress with our website!!

See you next week,
xoxo
Ali

Good Work today girls! I think that we are really doing well with all this, its alot of work but i think we are working great as a team. I finally do NOT have to go home for the weekend... things are finally settling down :) anyways, I will be going to open lab to finish up on some things, so if either of you would like to join, let me know! I'm excited to start working on our BIG BANG PAGE!!!!!

Hey Girls...

I'm really pumped for next week.

Let's plan on meeting @ 3:15 and working until late next Monday 4/19.

Remember to come prepared with all the things we need for out website.

1. Three new websites
2. A new Item
(Bonk-lesson plan)
(Ali-power point)
(Me-inspiration map on food pyramid)


Megan

Hi Lunch Box Friends,
Here are 2 of the 3 additional websites that i am going to use as teaching resources for our site:

1- http://www.fathersworld.com/recipes/dadscookin/index.html
2- http://www.cookingwithkids.com/part1/foreword.html

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson054.shtml

^I didn't know if we would need anymore... but i stumbled across a good clipart site for FOOD and other kitchen related things.

xo- Bonk

ok so after making that last post i realized that i forgot to say what "descriptions" that i did, so that we dont have any duplicates... sorry! Anyways, my head is back on straight, the descriptions that i have done and that we can edit today in class are: Welocme to Our Website, Blog, Concept Map, and Event Calendar. Those are the ones that are complete and i have begun to work on the descrition of the Podcast as well as my own, "origional item??" also remember that we need to find atleast 2 more websites to post as well, so lets put those up on the blog as soon as we find those jsut to be sure we have no overlaps! Ok... sorry- that was alot, see you soon!!!

Hello girls!

I just wanted to let you know that over the weekend i had the oppertunity to work on some of our "discriptions" for certain parts of our website. I havn't put them on to the website yet but i do have them saved on the computer and we can go over them in class today- if there is anything you dont like, or woudl like to add, feel free- its takes ALOT to offend me :) Hope both you had a great weekend, see you in class!!!

Cooking is fun

We're off to a good start on our website. Make sure we all look over the rubric for next class period!!!!


Ali and I have been working on the logo page and saving images...Good job Meghan highlighting what we need!

Have a good week!
xo

Megan

Hi Girls,

Finally it's time to start creating our website! We need to make sure that all of us have class assignments finished so that we can add them to our website. Meghan, thanks for making a checklist for us! That will be a big help to make sure we include all the requirements. We have a great start on our images and ideas for all the pages. I think the next time we meet we should work on adding our lesson plans, our podcast, and our movies.

Keep up the great work!
xo Ali xo

Hey girls!

I am currently going through the expectations for our website and highlighting the things that we need to have on our site... I am then creating a check list based off of that so that when we go through and create the navigation bar we can organized the links in the order they need to be in (which is required). Hope this will help us control the "chaos" a little bit :)

Hey girls sorry that i was unable to be attend class last week... i had some family circumstances that were beyond my control- while i wish i coudl say i was skipping and enjoying the weather, that was not the case. Anyways, thanks so much for being patient with me and helping me catch back up to speed! Hope you both had a great Easter, and I excited to get our web site up and going! See you in Class!

Hey girls,

I can't believe we forgot to post our Inspiration part B! Megan, I'm glad we were able to post it today. Also, Meghan make sure you post our post cast; we each have to post it individually for a grade. Our kitchen project is almost coming to an end! Keep up the good work.

xoxo
Ali

Concept Map Rev B

Whoops!

I cannot believe we didn't post the inspiration B. Shooot!

Hi Lunch Box Kids!

Our script looks great and I love how it turned out! We are currently taking turns recording it right now, so I'm thinking we have a good chance at finishing it today in class. Keep up the good work- our teamwork is going to make this project fabulous! Meg, I'm also glad you two are in my group. :)

xoxo
Ali

Hey Girls!

I'm so glad to have you two in my group!

Our script looks really good and we did a great job working together. I'm sure our voices mixing together are going to sound great. Maybe we could start a band or something if we sound awesome? Okay, clearly-I'm kidding.

Keep your fingers crossed for getting this done in class today!

Love,
Megan


Ps. If you see Mike, don't be afraid to rev your engine!!

Podcast!

Hi girls,

Our script for podcast is looking really good!
(Meghan...we will need some information from you when you return!!!)

I have our written draft and I will type it up this weekend so we can start recording next Monday (3/22) in class.

ALI- Feel better!

XOXO,

Megan

Hey Bloggers,

Meghan, we were sad you weren't with us in class today! Megan and I have a great start to our podcast. We decided to write one big script then break our parts into sections. We will each be talking for about a minute about the different aspects of our kitchen project. After we have the talking parts recorded, we will add the music in.

Keep up the good work!
-Ali

Just another Blog.....

Hi Girls,

For our second lesson plan I will be doing mine on the different food groups!
Hope you all had a wonderful spring break!

Meghan, I hope your face heals from your tragic fall.
Ali, Good job on finding love.

Love,
Megan

Hey Bloggers,

I'm going to do my second lesson plan on "Your Favorite Type of Food Ethnicity." At first I thought about doing favorite restaurants, but I realized it was a very broad category! I'm excited to hear your ideas. I think our project is coming along well, good work!

xoxo
Ali

Hey Lunch Box Kids-

I've never made a movie before, so I'm excited to start working on this! I'm thinking about making my movie on how to set a table because that's what I focued on for my lesson plan. I was thinking it would be a great way to lead into table manners and etiquette. What do you think?! Your ideas sound great!

xoxo
Ali

Hi Bloggers!

Just wanted to share my new websites with you:

http://www.a-to-z-of-manners-and-etiquette.com/table-manners-for-children.html

http://www.kids-cooking-activities.com/kids-cooking-lessons-assistant-chef-intro.html

Hi Girls-

I decided to do my lesson plan on "How to Set a Basic Table." It goes along well with our other topic of utensils. I also wanted to bring in the aspect of table manners and etiquette into our unit so I think this will be a great place to start!

Nice work so far!!

xoxo
Ali

I plan on doing my "Movie Maker" clip on somthing pertaning to Safety in the Kitch for Kids. Not sure specifically what type of safety or what procedure i wil talk about put it will be something along the lines of how to stay safe in the kitchen... kind of still brain-storming. If you have any suggestions, or better ideas, let me know please :)

Movie Maker

Girls,

Wow!! This seems challenging but fun!
I am planning on doing my movie maker project on serving sizes and the food pyramid.
I'll let you know if it changes!

xoxo,
Megan

Hey Girls!
I found a really cute website that i think that we should use. Its by Dole. I kinda played around on it a bit, but think that it could be useful.
http://www.dole.com/

See you in Class!

oh yes... hope your February 14th was full of LOVE! xoxo!

Lesson Plan

Hi Bloggers,

For our lesson plans we decided to use the same topic as we did for the web eval (besides Ali...for different reasons...ughhhh!!!!)

As a reminder, I'll be doing Health/Nutrition!

Xo,
Megan

As i did last week for Web Evals, ill do the Lesson Plans on Cooking/Kitchen Safety. Also if stumble across any helpful sources for either of you ill be sure to post them here for you guys! Keep up the good work, as always lovely working with the 2 of you :)

Google Map

View From School to Local Food Markets in a larger map

Here are my three websites:

http://www.growingcooks.com/alecartitems.html

http://www.kidscentralkitchen.com/category.aspx?categoryID=2

http://www.kids-cooking-activities.com/kids-cooking-products.html

The Lunch Box Kids ePals

The Lunch Box Kids ePals Assignment



Megan Bell

Ali Legut

Meghan Bonk

• 
  Who are the students your students will communicate with (specific location, grade level)?

The students who we will be communicating with are in Kindergarten from
Tampa, Florida. We decided to do kindergarten because that age group
interests us the most. We think it is important to start learning good
nutritional practices at a very young age. By using ePals and
communicating with other Kindergartners from a very different climate
than the one we live in in Michigan, we can learn about the types of
food they eat and grow as well gain an insight as to what they know
about good nutritional practices.

• 
  When would your students contact these other students (at what point in their project work)?

The students will contact the other students
during all points in the project. It is important to have ongoing
communication for this lesson. The students can gather ideas and useful
information from each other on a daily basis, through ongoing monitored email correspondence, that will help with the
cooking/kitchen project. Working with students from Florida and keeping an ongoing communication is key in the students' project work.

• 
  What kinds of questions would they ask each other and what kinds of information would they share?

What kind of food is grown in your area?
Are there local food markets?
How does the food get to the markets?
What are your favorite types of food?
What are the healthy foods grown in your area?
Do you know what proper servings are?
Are you able to identify the major food groups?
Are the eight essential nutrients our bodies need to be healthy present in your food you consume?
How much sugar does each student intake on a daily basis?
What fast food places are near you? Why are they unhealthy?
Do you know about obesity?
Why are some people vegans and vegetarians? Do you know about their lifestyles?
How much Vitamin C is actually in Florida Oranges?
What are some exercise activities people do in Florida to stay healthy?

• 
  What will they do with the information they get from the other students?
  

The information they will gain will help them understand food better. They can use this information to make comparisons with the students in Florida.They can make graphs with the information they receive and share them with their peers.  They can send each other recipes, nutrition facts, and other information related to cooking. The information they gain at the end of the this unit can be taken home and shared with their families and friends. The information can lead to a healthier and more active lifestyle.

Lately i've been researching some websites for my lead week at the Pre-school that i Intern at and gotton some inspiration for us! i have stumbled across a lot of good sites that we can pull some information off of and use for some and cool ideas too. I also found Literacy site that addresses Vocabularuy about Heather/Nutrition as well as another about Safety that we caoudl use for futher professionalizing our concept mapping. later Lunch boxers!

Hey Lunch Boxers!
Sorry i was unable to attend on Monday, a lil under the weather, however im ready to go and will do whatever is needed to catch up and make our website great! Hope you guys can catch me up to speed, see you in OPEN LAB!!

Hey Fellow Lunch Box Kids~*~

Megan, we have a great start on this assignment! Although we have answered all the questions, I think we should go back and add to our initial answers. Meghan, we will for sure catch you up either this week or next Monday in class. This assignment is not due until February 19th so we have some time! Megan and I have decided to communicate with kindergartners from Tampa, Florida. We thought this would be fun for our students to communicate with other students who live in a warm climate. =) Do we want to get together to finish this during lab or another time?

xoxo
Ali

ps- I still have to add my websites from last week. Sorry I haven't gotten to it yet!! I will for sure have it done before Friday. =)

B-loggers

We started our new assignment! We are off to a really good start, but we need to add a little more details. Meghan, We will catch you up on this when you're in class next week. We might have to go to Open Lab on Friday to complete this.
This ePal assignment is due on 2/19 so we still have some time to work on it!

Love you all!

Ps. We could map the path of something. Example-follow something from the field to how it gets packaged and ends up in the store!

Here are my three websites!

www.nutritionexplorations.org/

www.nutritionforkids.com/

/www.ext.nodak.edu/food/kidsnutrition/