This past week I utilized a pre-active teaching strategy that I saw varying examples of online. Before beginning a section on nutrition I had my 7th grade classes list everything they ate during their last three meals and all other food intake in between meals. Next we brainstormed the types of nutrients the body requires, listing them on the board. Then I asked them to try to figure out how many servings per meal and snacks they had of the various nutrients. After they finished I handed out a printout that described serving sizes of various foods. At this time I allowed them to go back and make adjustments in regards to their serving sizes (most had to increase what they had put). Next, they were given an empty food pyramid with the various nutrient types labeled and asked to plug in their data they had come up with. This led into the final discussion using the headings in the book to discuss the six nutrients and their role in proper nutrition.
I believe, by allowing the students to formulate associations between the foods they recently ate and the various types of nutrients the body requires, they will have a cognitive structure to build new ideas off of.
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Big Dog
The World’s Biggest Dog EverPublished by RGS April 16th, 2007 in Weird.
Hercules was recently awarded the honorable distinction of Worlds Biggest Dog by Guinness World Records. Hercules is an English Mastiff and has a 38 inch neck and weighs 282 pounds.
With "paws the size of softballs" (reports the Boston Herald), the three-year-old monster is far larger and heavier than his breed’s standard 200lb. limit. Hercules owner Mr. Flynn says that Hercules weight is natural and not induced by a bizarre diet: "I fed him normal food and he just grew"…. and grew and grew and grew.
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