Now Available – Online Curriculum Sample
A sample of the new online curriculum is now available! Go to the following link and click on “Guest Instructions.”
http://ttfcs.tizrapublisher.com/qd2j8
How to Use New Media Tools in Your Classroom
In these brief video clips, educators and others from around the country give lessons about specific technology and social-media tools you can use with your students.
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-new-media-classroom-tips
12 Powerfoods to Beat Diabetes
Can controlling your blood sugar and preventing diabetes complications be as simple as eating the right foods? Yes. Certain foods are packed with nutrients that stabilize blood sugar levels, protect your heart, and even save your vision from the damaging effects of diabetes. These 12 foods can give you an extra edge against diabetes and its complications.
Read more at:
http://www.menshealth.com/spotlight/diabetes/12-powerfoods.php?cm_mmc=ETNTNL-_-2010_06_25-_-HTML-_-1
For a Healthier Bronx, a Farm of Their Own
A 70 year-old professor has developed a commercial community-supported agriculture plan (C.S.A.) that lets residents determine what they’ll get, with an enticing prize at the end for people who stick with it: a chance to own shares in the farm.
Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/dining/23bronx.html?pagewanted=1&src=me
Panel Suggests Ways to Improve Nutrition
A federal nutrition panel wants to change the way Americans eat.
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, composed of 13 nutrition experts, is charged with coming up with recommendations that will figure in the government’s planned update of the iconic food pyramid. Its findings: People should consume more vegetables and whole grains, and less fatty meats, salt and sugar. The report aims to tackle what is widely seen as a national epidemic of obesity.
Read more at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703280004575309093112074112.html
Lubbock chefs create desserts with Girl Scout cookies
Interesting idea for a fundraiser.
http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2010-06-07/lubbock-chefs-create-desserts-girl-scout-cookies
11 Secrets the Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
http://eatthis.womenshealthmag.com/content/11-secrets-food-industry-doesnt-want-you-know
For Planners, The Party Never Ends
Pages fly off calendars, as in old movies. Months blur into one another. Seasons collapse. Yes, Memorial Day is just around the corner. But in the life of a professional party planner, summer is just a place holder on the events horizon, a false lull between the benefit season that winds down this week and the one that cranks up again immediately after Labor Day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/fashion/27Gimlet.html?pagewanted=1&src=mv
Heinz Changing Ketchup Recipe to Slash Salt
H.J. Heinz Co. is messing around with the recipe for its flagship product, reducing the sodium content in its ketchup in a move that the company described as the first “significant” change in the nation’s dominant brand of the tomato-based condiment in nearly 40 years.
Read more at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,592891,00.html
Coming Soon…. Culinary Arts Curriculum Guide
We are currently working on the new curriculum guide for Culinary Arts (as well as other FCS courses). Be sure to periodically check the blog for progress updates and maybe even a sneak peak.
If you have any ideas or suggestions for the new curriculum guide please let us know!
Heather Blount
Curriculum Specialist