2. http://www.nutrition.gov/
What is it?
What is it?
This website provides an easy, online website that provides easy access to information on Food and human nutrition for Consumers. What I love about nutrition.gov is its availability of different Subjects with different categories. This pose as a great learning tool for students to learn from as well as a great teaching tool for teachers to construct their lesson plan from.
For Example:
If you click a Suject on <Browse by Subject> ,take an example Shopping, Cooking and Meal Planning.
It has many sub-categories such as Food labels, Food shopping and meal planning, Cooking methods and recipes, ethnic cooking, Food storage and preservation.
These categories serves as an additional guide as it act as an supplement to the topics in the Food and Nutrition Textbook itself, serving as an additonal coverage to facilitate better understanding in pupils and smoother lesson delievery due to the greater availablity of examples listed on the website.
One Highlight:
The category on Meal Planning and Food Safety, provides a list of excellent resources.
Especially on Food Safety as it provides a more in-dept view on the awareness of Food Safety, the effects and the preventive measures of
Food Safety.
The temperature chart showing the appropriate temperatures for different types of Food such as Meat and Poultry, Fruits and Vegetables, will serve as a great tool for students as visual aid will help them understand better. In addtion, the table covers a greater list of food as compared to the textbook.
The extra learning points will help them prepare for their quizzes/exams/coursework.
See here for the table and other explanati0n
+ PLUS
Under the tab (Other GovernmentSites) stated on the websites, there are a wide variety of useful websites that can be used and referred to.
Examples of SOme Govt Sites found:
How to intergrate the advantages of this website into the classroom ?
Introduce this website to the students durring Research Part of Coursework A/B
If you click a Suject on <Browse by Subject> ,take an example Shopping, Cooking and Meal Planning.
It has many sub-categories such as Food labels, Food shopping and meal planning, Cooking methods and recipes, ethnic cooking, Food storage and preservation.
These categories serves as an additional guide as it act as an supplement to the topics in the Food and Nutrition Textbook itself, serving as an additonal coverage to facilitate better understanding in pupils and smoother lesson delievery due to the greater availablity of examples listed on the website.
One Highlight:
The category on Meal Planning and Food Safety, provides a list of excellent resources.
Especially on Food Safety as it provides a more in-dept view on the awareness of Food Safety, the effects and the preventive measures of
Food Safety.
The temperature chart showing the appropriate temperatures for different types of Food such as Meat and Poultry, Fruits and Vegetables, will serve as a great tool for students as visual aid will help them understand better. In addtion, the table covers a greater list of food as compared to the textbook.
The extra learning points will help them prepare for their quizzes/exams/coursework.
See here for the table and other explanati0n
+ PLUS
Under the tab (Other GovernmentSites) stated on the websites, there are a wide variety of useful websites that can be used and referred to.
Examples of SOme Govt Sites found:
How to intergrate the advantages of this website into the classroom ?
Teachers could refer students this link as their source of research for their coursework question or for clarification of their doubts pertaining to the different chapters of the coursework.
Hence, this website serves as a great teaching tool aid since it covers alomost 70% of the chapters in the Textbook, and consisting of resources that supplements to the information provided in the Textbook.
The tab on Food Composition Finders are perfect for looking up the Nutritive Content of a Meal. This can be done through analysis of the different ingredients of the Recipe.
The only Disadvantage is the limiting availabity of Foods to only the western cuisine.
Hence, this website serves as a great teaching tool aid since it covers alomost 70% of the chapters in the Textbook, and consisting of resources that supplements to the information provided in the Textbook.
The tab on Food Composition Finders are perfect for looking up the Nutritive Content of a Meal. This can be done through analysis of the different ingredients of the Recipe.
The only Disadvantage is the limiting availabity of Foods to only the western cuisine.
How to go about doing it?
Introduce this website to the students durring Research Part of Coursework A/B
OR
Implement the tools of this website into their investigative tasks during class/group discussions
Do you feel that this site will be a useful tool as we embark on our teaching career?
Do you feel that this site will be a useful tool as we embark on our teaching career?
Do leave your comments/questions.
Many many thanks.
♥ Angela insights of Home Economics
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