TIPS: Getting Healthy, Going Green
This tip is from the May/June 2009 issue of American Teacher (pg. 7 "Teacher's Lounge Section")
Getting Healthy, Going Green sixth- grade health education teacher Hanifah Munadi of Tampa Fla., encourages students to eat more fresh fruits and veggies (and to drink lots of water) by allowing the kids to eat these foods in class. This has led to a student project to use the food waste to create compost, which is then used as organic fertilizer on the plants at school.
Students now are “making healthier choices at lunch,” Munadi says. because the kids are choosing products with less sugar, the level of hyperactivity after lunch is lower, and students are “learning how to recycle the waste to help safely restore our environment.” And, she notes, the school principal came up with a wonderful idea: to raise earthworms in the compost. There’s “lots of good fishing in florida,” she adds.
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Getting Healthy, Going Green sixth- grade health education teacher Hanifah Munadi of Tampa Fla., encourages students to eat more fresh fruits and veggies (and to drink lots of water) by allowing the kids to eat these foods in class. This has led to a student project to use the food waste to create compost, which is then used as organic fertilizer on the plants at school.
Students now are “making healthier choices at lunch,” Munadi says. because the kids are choosing products with less sugar, the level of hyperactivity after lunch is lower, and students are “learning how to recycle the waste to help safely restore our environment.” And, she notes, the school principal came up with a wonderful idea: to raise earthworms in the compost. There’s “lots of good fishing in florida,” she adds.
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