4-H School Enrichment and After School Enrichment Programs
Penn State Extension - 2014
- This school district has many after school enrichment programs for their K-12 youth in which they help students expand their horizons and give them opportunities to make decisions for the future. One of the programs is called Food, Culture and Reading and it is: "a nutrition education program targeted to youth in grades four to six. It uses literature to learn about food, nutrition, healthy living, and different cultures. Youth will be able to recognize a variety of healthful foods, taste new foods from other cultures and develop an understanding and appreciation of cultures that are different from their own."
- This piece is relevant because this program shows how other school districts have been integrating the culture around food into curriculums - in this case, after school. This can be inspiring to our project which has low-income families as our target audience where many parents work later than their children's schools, so an enrichment program might be a good way to integrate our goal to these children.
Diversity Through Food and Other Activities
Barbara Shelby - Kid Activities
August 10, 2009
- This blog introduces meal ideas and plans in order to help introduce diversity and authentic ethnic foods to children of all ages. It is packed with cuisine and activity ideas from around the world.
- This blog is inspiring to our program because it gives us some ideas of cuisines that are chill-friendly and still worldly, as well as lesson plans ranging from elementary to high school children on different concepts of diversity, discrimination, cultures, etc. Since it is packed with great ideas already, it's a good place for us to pull from for any sample events or materials we can have ready for our program.
Not Your Parents’ School Lunch: Districts Innovate With Food Trucks, Smartphone AppsTim Skillern - CBS Denver
September 5, 2014
- The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 has partnered up with schools in Denver to provide healthier lunch options in fun ways such as kid chef competitions, food trucks, and even a smartphone app to introduce new cuisines.
- Wow what an incredible article pertaining to our program!! It's even quoted in the article that chefs hope that unique and fun dining options for school lunches will help introduce children to cuisines or food items that they have never tried before but end up loving. These programs, such as the food truck, are exactly what we want to do to bring awareness to elementary school children and also bring it to the parents' attention as well to provide children with new food knowledge and their cultures as well.
Using Food to Teach About Chinese Culture
Kandice Hauf - Education About Asia
Winter 2011
- The author, a Chinese history & culture teacher, talks about how she incorporates and uses foods as a means to teaching Chinese history, culture, geography, religion, etc because it is an easy way for students to connect with and understand another culture.
- Though this article is narrow in the segment (only targeting learning about Chinese culture), it is vital in our understanding of how exactly we could connect our program centered around food with the geography students would be learning in class. Maybe these are things we would take into consideration if our program expands in the future, so we can align timing for releasing certain dishes with children's education on certain aspects of different cultures (such as food from different historical eras or difference in cuisine even just amongst regions in a certain country).
It's Dinnertime: A Report on Low-Income Families’ Efforts to Plan, Shop for and Cook Healthy Meals
No Kid Hungry - ConAgra Foods Foundation
- This visual-heavy report shows the statistics on what the eating habits of low-income families in the US are actually like, some statistics contradicting to the perceived norm. Much of the report focuses on the families' wants to eat healthier but the costs of food being out of their budget.
- The No Kid Hungry campaign is a great campaign to keep on our program's radar because it focuses on improving eating habits and bringing more nutritional food items to school-aged children and families that cannot afford them on their own. They also hold educational programs for families to teach them how to eat healthy on their budget: this is a great goal for our program too, because we want to educate families to eat diverse (and healthier) food options without having to spend more money.
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