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Lessons and tools to help kids eat healthy.

Offers recipes, information and ideas for healthy eating.

This middle school showcases how to use Pinterest for learning. It has 40+ boards such as "Summer Reading Lists," Walls of Wisdom," "Eat SMART"," "Brainiacs!" and "Teaching and Learning." Students and teachers can learn something from this collection.

Interactive, webquest style website designed to teach students about nutrition and eating well.

Webquest designed to help students navigate through various websites while teaching them about online shopping and healthy eating habits.

Dedicated to changing the way we eat and influencing schools to change their habits in how they feed children.

This is a great way to assign spelling and vocabulary homework...and their backpacks won't eat their homework.

I came across the blog over the summer while browsing Pinterest and I have read about some really great ideas and resources for secondary education!

This is an excerpt from the book by Etienne Wenger, Communities of Practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. In it, Wenger details that communities of practice are found everywhere in our lives, from a very young age (daycare!) on up. For many reasons, modern societies are concerned that valid learning takes place and Wendger hopes to contribute. He points out that "a social theory of learning is...not exclusively an academic enterprise." It is all around us. Wenger is not discounting the many other theories of learning that have been developed in the past. His theory is in addition to these.

Andrea, thank you for finding this. I thought I'd found everything available on the internet for Wenger. I had been vacillating back and forth about purchasing "Communities of Practice: Learning, meaning, and identity." Having now read this chapter, I think I'll have to go ahead and buy the book. I love Wenger's writing, especially his straightforward prose used to support his argument for the Communities of Practice theory. Here's a fine example: "What if we assumed that learning is as much a part of our human nature as eating or sleeping, that it is both life-sustaining and inevitable, and that - given a chance - we are quite good at it? And what if, in addition, we assumed that learning is, in its essence, a fundamentally social phenomenon, reflecting our own deeply social nature as human beings capable of knowing?" That's very nice.

Webquest created to teach about healthy habits, nutrition and where to find healthy foods.

EdPuzzle is the perfect tool for allowing students to watch and engage with videos while the teacher gathers data throughout the lesson. As teachers dabble into the flipped classroom philosophy, EdPuzzle is the perfect enhancement tool for videos to be watched at home instead of eating up valuable class time.