學生在學習期間應注意健康的飲食習慣

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學生在學習期間應注意健康的飲食習慣

　　This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

學生在學習期間應注意健康的飲食習慣

　　About one-fifth of Americans age six to nineteen are considered overweight. To reduce those numbers, some schools are teaching children to make better food choices.

　　TEACHER AND STUDENT: "So I can have spinach and what, who can give me one combination. Spinach and -- Diego?" "Eggplant?" "Eggplant. Spinach and eggplant. So here is my first combination."

　　Hannah Chen is teaching the eight and nine year olds in this math class in Washington how to make sets.

　　HANNAH CHEN: "We just incorporated food into different types of combinations, like with the pizza we had two types of toppings that the kids can provide, and figuring out the different combinations using those toppings."

　　The EW Stokes Public Charter School has started to include food topics in its third-grade math and English teaching. The school formed a partnership with Seedling Projects, an environmental group in San Francisco, California.

　　Peter Nalli is a curriculum director for the program called Farm to Desk. He says they are doing this in part to address the issue of childhood obesity.

　　PETER NALLI: "One of the main components of our program is our belief that if kids are exposed to positive and healthy messaging about food throughout the instructional day, that has the most potential to impact long-term change."

　　School chef Makeisha Daye says the school buys most of its food from local farms, but the students grow some themselves.

　　MAKEISHA DAYE: "They are replanting everything now so that we will be using fresh herbs, fresh vegetables straight from our garden. So, the children, they love it."

　　Teacher Hannah Chen agrees.

　　HANNAH CHEN: "We have a salad bar at the school, and now the kids love the salad bar. They love the fruits and vegetables. So I think it is making a big difference in their lives."

　　She says the third graders have also learned to read the sugar and fat content listed on food packages. She says the EW Stokes Public Charter School in Washington plans to expand the Farm to Desk program to other grades next year.

　　Charter schools get public money but do not have to follow the same rules as traditional public schools.

　　Many charter schools have specialized areas of study -- like Environmental Charter High School near Los Angeles. Students learn the importance of protecting the environment. Rigo Estrada says he used to be the kind of person who threw trash on the street.

　　RIGO ESTRADA: "But now that I have seen firsthand videos, I have done beach cleanups, I have helped develop like water-catchment systems, I have taught elementary schools like the importance of water conservation, I know the importance of green and that it actually is a really serious topic."

　　Students also learn how to prepare a business plan that they can use to help pay for college. They learn from teachers and outside experts like Nancy Gale. She owns an environmentally friendly business that makes handbags.

　　NANCY GALE: "The idea behind the program is that if these kids see what they can do together and what they can accomplish, that they recognize that their skills extend into the same real world as kids that go to successful private schools."

　　And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, available online at www.tingvoa.com and on the VOA Learning English on Facebook. I'm Steve Ember.

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　　Contributing: Mike O'Sullivan and June Soh

　　這里是VOA慢速英語教育報道。

　　美國大約五分之一6歲至19歲之間的人肥胖。為了降低該數(shù)字，一些學校開始教學生怎樣更好地選擇食物。

　　教師和學生：“我可以吃菠菜和什么呢？誰能給我一個組合？菠菜和——Diego，你來說�！薄扒炎樱俊薄扒炎�，菠菜和茄子。這是我的第一個組合�！�

　　Hannah Chen正在華盛頓一個數(shù)學班教給八歲和九歲的孩子怎樣對食品進行搭配。

　　Hannah Chen：“我們將食品搭配成不同類型的組合，例如批薩，我們提供兩種配料，孩子們可以進行選擇，看一下用這些配料可以搭配成多少各種各樣的組合。”

　　EW Stokes政府特許學校開始在三年級的數(shù)學和英語教學中涉及食物的話題。這所學校與加州舊金山環(huán)保組織“幼苗項目”達成了合作伙伴關系。

　　Peter Nalli是“農田到課桌”項目的課程主任。他表示，他們這樣做的部分目的是解決兒童肥胖的問題。

　　Peter Nalli：“我們的項目的一個重要因素就是，我們相信，如果孩子在教學過程中接觸到的是積極的，健康的食物信息，這會產生長期的有利影響。”

　　校長Makeisha Daye表示，學校從當?shù)剞r田購買大部分食物，但是也有一些由學生親手種植。

　　Makeisha Daye：“他們現(xiàn)在正在移植所有作物，這樣我們就可以使用來自我們的菜園的新鮮的香料和蔬菜。孩子們非常喜歡�！�