Food and Sustainability
Nourish: Food + Community - Curriculum
This is an excellent resource for the Food and Culture project. On this page you may access many wonderful videos as well as download the free Nourish Middle School Curriculum Guide.
See the Nourish video below. You will be inspired - again!
This is an excellent resource for the Food and Culture project. On this page you may access many wonderful videos as well as download the free Nourish Middle School Curriculum Guide.
See the Nourish video below. You will be inspired - again!
Nourish Trailer from Nourish on Vimeo.
Evaluating Web Sites
Here are some resources to help you teach your students how to evaluate the quality, reliability and validity of information they encounter on the Internet. For younger children you will probably want to create a page for them with links already selected for them. They can just use these links instead of searching the entire Internet.
Evaluating Web Sites - this page has links to evaluation criteria as well as lessons on evaluating web sites, writing research, Internet Safety and more.
Kathy Schrock has the best page with many excellent links for evaluating web sites, including a good list of web sites to use for students to practice evaluation. For example, the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus web site appears to be a valid, scientific site - but it's not!
Evaluating Web Sites - this page has links to evaluation criteria as well as lessons on evaluating web sites, writing research, Internet Safety and more.
Kathy Schrock has the best page with many excellent links for evaluating web sites, including a good list of web sites to use for students to practice evaluation. For example, the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus web site appears to be a valid, scientific site - but it's not!
