Fun and healthy eating

1.) Grade level: 7th Subject Matter: Food
2.) topic: healthy eating
3.)
As a way to introduce students to healthier eating habits, over the next semester we will be collecting recipes from the students in an effort to create a class cookbook focused on balanced diets and fun ways to integrate them.
Objective #1: research food groups, and local org. which work towards teaching kids about healthy fun eating-possibly have a representative from one of these groups come speak to the students
Objective #2:Each week the recipe submissions from the class will be voted on for the most creative, interesting, and well balanced and the winner will receive
Objective #3: Once all the recipes all collected the students will take part in the creation, format, design, marketing, and distribution of the cookbook. Each student will cook one of the meals and use their own words to write the step by step directions and any alterations they make to the original recipe. The money raised from the sale of the cookbook will be put towards continued health and cooking education for the 2nd semester.

4.Identify appropriate technologies that can be implemented to increase the effectiveness of the lesson
- Once each recipe is decided upon a student will be selected to make it as an at home project. A video camera will be sent along with the student and the assignment will include that the process be filmed, as would a prime time cooking show eg: 30 min meals with Rachel Ray. Each video clip will be edited by the students and submitted onto You tube. As a pre-requisite to this portion of the project we will watch, in class, a short collection of cooking show clips so that the students will understand what makes a recipe exciting and unique on camera.
-As part of the cookbook their will a supplemental portion which will include various links to websites focused on healthy eating with kids in mind, as well as any other which we feel would compliment the selection. As a class we will write summaries of all the websites, including age range, information quality, and ease.

Describe varied strategies one could use to teach the lesson
-Talk to the kids about what the food pyramid is and how they truly use that in their everyday lives. Open up discussion about their relationship with food and what role it plays in their lives.
-Have them locate a number of recipes that they love and find ways to keep them the same by slightly altering some of the ingredients to up the health factor.
-This is not a health class-this is a class teaching kids about the art of cooking, the goal is to increase their focus on foods with greater health benefits.