Food Services Director Terry Gall speaks to 5th grade taste testers.
What do technology and eating habits have in common? Just ask Mrs. Gall (Food Service Director) and Mrs. Nippins (technology teacher) who joined forces combining nutrition and technology in different formats.
Mr. Nober’s fifth grade students were treated to a taste-testing event where they dined by candlelight to a spring theme tantalizing their taste-buds on a variety of samples for breakfast, lunch, dinner and let’s not forget dessert. Students were amazed that these samples were not only great tasting, but they were healthy too. Throughout this event, students were presented with information provided by the Nutritional School Meal Guidelines. Valued comments and suggestions gathered from students who have discriminating palettes, just ask their parents, could end up on future school menus.
No food in the computer lab, but . . . here students utilized spreadsheet skills to complete an assignment requiring reading labels, recording consumed calories and accessing the Internet to finalize their classroom project.
Awareness regarding healthy food choices starts at an early age to safeguard our bodies in the future. Technology provides a vehicle to generate an endless array of knowledge to help make intelligent choices.
Please click on the link to view a video of this taste testing event!