Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools (DETS) K-12 diabetes awareness curriculm

http://www3.niddk.nih.gov/fund/other/dets/index.htm

I found this great site on Diabetes education in First Nations Tribal schools.
The DETS Health Is Life in Balance curriculum has been designed to increase American Indian and Alaska Native students understanding of health, diabetes, and maintaining life in balance; to increase their understanding and application of scientific and community knowledge; and to increase interest in science and health professions among American Indian and Alaska Native youth.
Although it is American I think that this site will be very useful to me, because we don't really have a big program(k-12) like this in Canada. In my home community and in my current family diabetes is a big issue amongst First Nations people. I think a diabetes awareness curriculum like this one would also be useful in more First Nations Canadian Tribal Schools.

Video Review

Video Review.egg on Aviary.

This is my video review. Jon and I did this assignment together, we decided to take a creative approach to it.
We reviewed the straight otta PDP video.

Genetically Modified Foods in the Classroom

 This is a link to a lesson plan (grades 9-12) on genetically modified foods.


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/science/gmofoods.html

School Observation

During my observation I learned that the school I was at had a garden. This garden was used for both science classes and the culinary program. I thought this combination of learning to cook in the kitchen and to use food grown in a garden outside was great because it provides nutrition, teaches hands on learning and the importance of local food. Below I have posted a link to A toolkit for high schools to grow food. This toolkit was developed in Vancouver. 




http://www.scribd.com/doc/34475946/School-Gardens-A-Toolkit-for-High-Schools-to-Grow-Food

Photo Editing Assignment Review

In this photo editing assignment I used Picnik and Splashup. I liked what both had to offer for editing features. I liked splashup, it seems to have alot more features than picnik. However, I thinked I like picnik more, it seemed more simple, but I liked how the editing tools were laid out.

Third Photo Edited with Splashup

For this third photo, I used splashup. The tools I used were text, free transform and noise effect(making the grainy look).

Photographer: Paul @freedigitalphotos.net

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Fruit_g104-Fresh_Orange_Juice_p20975.html

Second Photo Edited (Using Picnik)

For this second photo....I edited it with picnik. The tools I used were text, colors: saturate and temperature. I also used the sharpened tool.

Photographer:Paul@freedigitalphotos.net

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Fruit_g104-Fresh_Orange_Juice_p20975.html

Photo Editing (Original Photo)

For this photo editing assignment...I decided to go with a picture of oranges because it fits with my blogs theme Health and Nutrition.This is what the picture looked like when I downloaded it.

Photographer:Paul@freedigitalphotos.net

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Fruit_g104-Fresh_Orange_Juice_p20975.html

Tweeting

Today in class, we learned about twitter. ummmm......not really sure about it. Although, I know me commenting on twitter does not really relate to the title of my blog, I feel it does in some way. When social networking sites like this become over used it could lead to addiction, and in some extreme cases cause obesity. (like the whole issue of child/adult obesity and video games)

Hello, this is my first blog, I am not sure what to write about so I thought I would do a blog on the importance of  food and education. In Canada and the United States, many children suffer from obesity. Obesity derives from eating food that is unhealthy. A great number of North American children today consume unhealthy food from fast food restaurants. It has been proven that healthier foods allow children to learn better in the classroom setting.