Yesterday was me and Bridget's second PHS Lesson: "I am From." Having already familiarized ourselves with the school, classroom, and lesson materials, we were able to get started with the lesson quickly.
We started off asking the students what they remembered from last week. Many of them eagerly raised their hands, and were able to tell us nearly all of the PHS goals! As usual, they enjoyed the "brain break," during which Captain Jet (Bridget) had them practice five sports in 30 seconds: basketball, swimming, dancing, running, and baseball. They loved getting their hearts pumping!
This lesson dealt with different people and their food cultures. We started off by asking how we learned food behaviors, and how they pertained to our unique cultural identity. Captain Jet and I passed out handouts, on which there were pictures of people eating dinner from two different cultures: Ethiopian and Korean. We had the students note differences between the two cultures, and then the differences from their own cultures. Many of them mentioned points such as "the Korean food culture has many little bowls with whole fish, rice, and vegetable," and "the Ethiopian food culture is one large plate, and everyone is sitting around it." They were very interested to observe the presentation and composition of different food cultures.
Many of the students wanted to share their own food culture, as well. Eve, a very enthusiastic student, was happy to share that she and her family dined according to her Puerto Rican culture. To have the students think about their own food culture, we passed out sheets for them to write their own "I am From" poem. These poems had an incomplete sentence, just as "I am from the taste of..." or "I am from the sight of..." which the students would complete in their own words to reflect their own food culture.
The students were very engaged throughout this lesson. They pored extensively over the two pictures, and as I was walking around, all of them were expressing very detailed observations of the two pictures. One of them mentioned to me, "I noticed that the fish in the Korean food culture doesn't have eyes!"
At the end of the lesson, the students were delighted to see that we had brought them a healthy snack: zucchini bread! This bread contained two whole zucchinis, and the kids loved it.
Dietitians nutritionists often have to take into account their patient's food culture. Everyone eat's different things, and a health professional must be able to analyze the nutrition content of these foods and be able to suggest changes that do not compromise the patient's food culture.
We started off asking the students what they remembered from last week. Many of them eagerly raised their hands, and were able to tell us nearly all of the PHS goals! As usual, they enjoyed the "brain break," during which Captain Jet (Bridget) had them practice five sports in 30 seconds: basketball, swimming, dancing, running, and baseball. They loved getting their hearts pumping!
This lesson dealt with different people and their food cultures. We started off by asking how we learned food behaviors, and how they pertained to our unique cultural identity. Captain Jet and I passed out handouts, on which there were pictures of people eating dinner from two different cultures: Ethiopian and Korean. We had the students note differences between the two cultures, and then the differences from their own cultures. Many of them mentioned points such as "the Korean food culture has many little bowls with whole fish, rice, and vegetable," and "the Ethiopian food culture is one large plate, and everyone is sitting around it." They were very interested to observe the presentation and composition of different food cultures.
Many of the students wanted to share their own food culture, as well. Eve, a very enthusiastic student, was happy to share that she and her family dined according to her Puerto Rican culture. To have the students think about their own food culture, we passed out sheets for them to write their own "I am From" poem. These poems had an incomplete sentence, just as "I am from the taste of..." or "I am from the sight of..." which the students would complete in their own words to reflect their own food culture.
The students were very engaged throughout this lesson. They pored extensively over the two pictures, and as I was walking around, all of them were expressing very detailed observations of the two pictures. One of them mentioned to me, "I noticed that the fish in the Korean food culture doesn't have eyes!"
At the end of the lesson, the students were delighted to see that we had brought them a healthy snack: zucchini bread! This bread contained two whole zucchinis, and the kids loved it.
Dietitians nutritionists often have to take into account their patient's food culture. Everyone eat's different things, and a health professional must be able to analyze the nutrition content of these foods and be able to suggest changes that do not compromise the patient's food culture.
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