Nutrition Education Project at Springport Public Schools
Summer Nutrition Education and Garden Day Camp Program:
Emily Reardon, Nutrition Education Coordinator, and the Farm Cooperative students are putting on a Summer Day Camp for up to 50 Springport Elementary atudents free of charge. The Day Camp will focus on nutrition education through gardening and involved working with fruits, vegetables, chickens, sheep, cattle, compost, worms, and the soil. A wide range of activities will be incorporated in the day camp for a fun and exciting experience. Farm Cooperative students will serve as mentors and instructors under the supervision of Miss Reardon. Below are some program details:
- Drop off/Pick up at the Greenhouse behind Springport High School
- Tuesdays 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Students are expected to bring a lunch and appropriate outdoor clothing
- 2008 Camp Dates: June 17, June 24, July 1, July 8, July 15, July 22, July 29, Aug 4, Aug 11, Aug 18
- 2008 Day Camp Flier
Elementary Nutrition Education Class:
The Elementary school has a new teacher this year! Miss Alison Ruhl teaches the field of nutrition education to the elementary students and utilizes the greenhouse, garden, and high school agriscience program to do it. Teachers are also increasing the nutrition education that is happening in the classrooms. Every student gets the chance to experience 40 minutes of nutrition education every week. Kids are doing activities in and outside of the classroom. They are doing food tasting, growing in the green house, and this summer there is a day camp.
The Agriscience Program is hosting a day camp, one day a week, all day. They get to garden in a way to teach nutrition, and to participate in a physical activities. Some activities they will experience at the day camp are:
- working with the high school students in the gardens
- food/nutrition activity
- work with the high schoolers in the pasture
- food journals
High School Agriscience Nutrition Mentors and Botany Class:
Students in Mrs. Merrill's Leadership class have become Certified Nutrition Trainers through a program in the course. Students were trained on the following items:
- learning styles
- mentoring
- nutrition
- creation and delivery of nutrition lessons for classroom & garden
- mentor elementary students in nutrition through gardening
- creation of day camp lessons
Students in Mr. Thompson's Botany class experience growing gardens and managing a commercial-sized greenhouse. The students learn how to take proper care of the greenhouse, and the living plants inside. The vegetables from the greenhouse are harvested and sold to the school's cafeteria for fresh, and nutritious school lunches.
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