Alas, I have decided to continue composting afterall! I decided that composting is a worthy activity to continue with the 4th grade because there's not many other ways to actively get them involved. I emailed Mrs. Price regarding another grant I should apply for, but haven't received a response yet. I need to do research on that myself. This coming week, I plan to research healthier snacks that I can sell for my healthy snack week. I also need to focus on advertising, which I am slightly nervous about. If there's anything I've learned, it's that it is really hard to get people to care about what you're most passionate about. So, I'm nervous that, despite my best efforts, the students will be apathetic to their health and to my project. I think most teenagers today don't care at all about their diet or their health because what they eat today doesn't directly affect their health. But, it will later, and that's what they need to know.
I also plan, either next week or the next, on taking a soil sample to the Clemson Extention Center, just for my own educational purposes. Then, either this weekend or next, I will purchase the potatoes that I will be planting by Valentines day. I have also been progressing in my book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. It is a slow read because it is so full of information and it's hard to process it all and to understand everything Pollan talks about. It might take me the rest of the year to finish the book at the pace I'm going. Other than that, my senior project at the moment is static. Until next week!
Don't let the 'nits and dragons' of life get to you before you even start! Dive in with the advertizing- get the ideas in their heads and remember if you only change one persons ideas about what and how they eat it will be worth it!!
ReplyDeleteAnd if you have not seen the movie "SuperSize Me" then you need to watch it now -- my family has been boycotting McDonald's and most fast food since we saw that movie. Show your peers that the statement above "what they eat today doesn't directly affect their health" is WRONG. What you eat today can rapidly change how you feel, how your body responds, and the person you become. Your teenage years lay the essential groundwork for all your future. What you do today, what you eat today, and what you THINK today becomes your adult persona. I think today is the most important day of your life! :) Dr. B
ReplyDeleteI have seen the "SuperSize Me" documentary and I think everyone should see it! My family has also been boycotting fast food- pretty much for all our lives- mainly because fast food doesn't have vegetarian options ;p.
ReplyDeleteThanks!