1. Give out a student survey which guides students to answer this question.
2. Activities
2.1. Students come up with ways to make school food more nutritious
2.2. Students do a Walk for Cancer, Diabetes, etc.
2.2.1. Link to Diabetes Walk in Manhattan
2.3. Maybe set up some Intramural Sports
2.3.1. Soccer
2.3.2. Volleyball
2.3.3. Basketball
2.3.4. Student Coaches
2.3.4.1. This also connects students who enjoy but dont excell at sports with an afterschool function
2.3.5. Maybe have a Friday intermural sports night @ school. (my jr. high used to do this and it was awesome!)
3. Technology
3.1. Dance Dance Revolution
3.2. Wii Sports
3.2.1. there are workout games for the Wii
3.2.2. Wii Boxing is quite the workout...so is the baseball game!
3.3. Kareoke
4. Emotional/Spiritual
4.1. Discuss emotional issues students deal with in school
4.1.1. Come up with ways to deal with those issues
4.2. Have a "Mental Wellness" Day in school (come up with activities for students)
5. Skype ID's
5.1. HELP!!
5.1.1. NEVERMIND
6. How society has changed our activities, ie we spend most of the day sitting at a computer instead of, well, moving, LOL
6.1. We can make cultural connections through time and see how ideas of "Nourishment" have changed over time throughout the world.
7. A Better America
7.1. How will good nutritition make America a stronger nation
7.2. Brain Food
7.3. Vegetables increase life expectancy
8. OUR LINK TO EMBED!
9. Exercise Chart
9.1. Make a daily plan for kids and adults to follow
10. What Educators Can Do
10.1. Exercise in/out classroom (not just @ recess and gym)
10.1.1. Kinesthetic Activities
10.2. Try to integrate "Nourishment" topics into lessons. i.e. A math teacher can have students look at menus and add up calories/fat/etc. to practice addition.
10.3. Collaborate with Health Teachers
11. INTRODUCTION: Our aim is to raise awareness to students about positive ways to take care of their mind, body, and soul.
12. New Group Name
12.1. Nutrition
12.2. Healthy Living
12.3. Food For Thought
12.4. The Totally Awesome Food Group
12.5. 21st Century Mind, Body, and Soul
12.6. The Health Nuts!
13. What does Nourishment Mean?
13.1. Mental
13.2. Social
13.3. Technological
13.4. Food
13.5. We could build this area off of the Webster Definition and then break it down to the above sub areas.
13.6. Spiritual
13.7. Student Nutrition Awareness Night: Come learn about nutrition and creative tasty ingredients to make nutritious meals
13.8. Fast Food Survey
14. Plans for Future
14.1. Website
14.1.1. Different profiles of student's progress with weightloss goals.
14.1.1.1. Are we definately going to focus on nutrition and weightloss?
14.1.2. Maybe link the website to resources like Weight Watchers for kids
14.2. Short Video
14.2.1. A commercial asking kids what nutrition means to them and why they think it is important
14.2.1.1. Have kids make a commercial after they learn more about "nourishment" (at end of collaboration) so we can see how they've grown.
14.3. Blog
14.3.1. We could connect the Blog to the website
15. WE SPOKE ABOUT FAST FOOD WHILE CREATING THIS!!!!!
16. Fast Food
16.1. How do companies entice you?
16.1.1. Color Schemes
16.1.2. Advertisements