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Week 1 - Introductions

Welcome to the Mission Nutrition Project!

Your mission in this project is to learn about what foods keep your body healthy. You will be learning and sharing this information with global learning partners. As we study each part of the Food Guide Pyramid, you will take part in several activities:

• You will keep a food diary before we start the project, then again at the end.
• You will be asked to describe foods in certain categories that are native to your country.
• You will learn what others around the globe eat to stay healthy.
• You will use the knowledge you learned to write, and solve "Nutrition Mysteries" for others.
• You will graph the results of the differences in your food diary to see if our learning helped you change the way you eat.
• To celebrate learning together, your teacher may plan a Multicultural Feast (well-balanced, of course!).

This project will last for 8 weeks. Since this is a Science project, you will be expected to do what a scientist does-- document your data, research, communicate with others, compare results, and share your findings. You will have at least one assignment each week to complete.

This first week however, you have two small assignments. The first assignment is to keep a food diary of what you eat throughout this week. Your teacher will give you 5 minutes at the start of each science class to fill out your food diary worksheet.

As you will be working with scientists from around the globe, your second assignment this week is to introduce your school and class to the rest of our project teams. Your teacher will help you write this introduction. Be sure to tell about the location of your school by using your global address of longitude & latitude. You can find that information by visiting these sites:

Times Around the World from Kidlink
World Time Zones

While you are at the above site, you can use them to help you figure out your "GMT Offset Time" or what time Greenwich Mean Time is equal to on your local clock. Greenwich Mean Time is the time used around the globe to collaborate. You will need to know that information when we plan our "Multicultural Feast" at the end of the project. Then you will know what time to meet the other participants in the chat room. So be a good scientist and record your global address and GMT Offset time in your notebook. Also be sure to include them in your introduction paragraphs. When your class has written the introduction, email it to bschulz@beaumont-publishing.com

OK..... let's get started! Fill out those diaries, and send in that introduction. I am looking forward to hearing from you!

Barb Schulz - Moderator
Author of Scribes Online
and soon Expeditions Online

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