Social Studies, Human Resources and Adptations

After reading Omnivores Dilemma and hearing about the mis-truth's we are told about organic, free range, cage free food. I found this article that supports that the shopper should be wear. Is organic food good? Yes, but is the truth about it's claims the truth, it seems the truth may be stretched in the marketing.

How bad are chicken nuggets? This makes me think twice about eating chicken nuggets.

This book is a must have for parents and teachers alike! The author dedicated this book to her daughter that has been diagnosed with ADHD. The challenges of being a child whose life is sometimes so hard and the struggles of a parent trying to make the best out of both positive and not-so-positive moments in daily life are shared. I will admit I had tears when I read it, and I feel in our profession we will deal with children just like this little girl. Most importantly, we will need to find a way to help this child have the best day possible each and every day.

I always think that if you are going to show kids what kind of food is healthy, then we should teach them fun ways to eat it!

Maybe we should use this with our Schoolcraft friends, or StoryBird.

This book is packed full of information about what to do with "leftover food" after it is produced and consumed. It would be an interesting read for upper elementary students.

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My personal comments: Watchers beware! I stopped eating meat for 8 months after watching this. I started eating meat again after getting pneumonia and getting too weak. Now I try diligently to KNOW WHERE MY MEAT COMES FROM! This is the pre-made website intro: EARTHLINGS is a powerful and informative documentary about society's treatment of animals, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix with soundtrack by Moby. This multi-award winning film by Nation Earth is a must-see for anyone who cares about animals or wishes to make the world a better place.

Website designed for kids to use with information on topics such as energy, pollution, eating the future, and food. It also has videos, quizzes, and fun stuff too.

This website has some interesting information on Milk and our consumption of it. I for one cut milk out of my life years ago. I do still eat small amounts of cheese and Greek yogurt. I can tolerate those items better than a straight up glass of milk. They say the bacteria in Greek yogurt is better to digest.

A lot of resources from parent, teacher, kid, etc.. perspectives, and has many categories, not a literal focus on environment. - At Earth's Kids we believe that children are our future. Their creativity, values, and choices will shape our society and create waves of impact that may some day be felt all over the planet - perhaps for centuries to come. It's up to us help them make that impact a positive one.

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I stumbled across this site when I was looking for different primary source documents and lesson. I thought it was extraordinary! I haven't played around TOO much with it yet, but from what I can tell when you get into it, and look at a document/photo, it creates a web to related topics in a nice little interface, making searching for them easy peasy (like I said from what I can tell so far). I was impressed with it. =) From the site: Exploring the Digital Vaults is easy. You can browse through the hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips and discover the connection between some of the National Archives' most treasured records. To use the media rich version of this site you will need to download the Adobe Flash 9 player.

looks like Siri has before too, naturally! =)

Thanks for tip on this one Tammy!

This site contains free lesson plans on consumption, energy, food, transportation, and water. The site has limitless opportunities, whether you use it as a starting point for a lesson, to teaching the whole curriculum. Note that the site is FREE, and the lesson plans can be adapted to the younger grades.

How to Teach History Facts the Fun Way. Tips and Activities to teach History facts in a way that will interest students and keep them engaged.

Interactive games to help students with their map skills

Here is more information about green corps.