"School Commercialization Hurts All Children, Ethnic Minority Group Children Most of All" by: Alex Molnar http://www.jstor.org/pss/3211189
"Blurring Boundaries: Two Groups of Girls Collaborate on a Wiki" by: Trace Schillinger
(Available online through Galileo and other library websites)
Description: Schillinger connects her classroom with another teacher's in a vastly different part of town; the students in both classes read the same material and participate in relevant discussions online. The project culminates with both groups able to finally meet in person and learn each other's real names and connect them with their screen names. The students not only learn about the text they are reading, but also about how the differences in their cultures affect how they read and interpret the text.
BOOKS:
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child And The Repaired Consumer Culture by: Juliet B. Schor
Food Inc. - A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sick by: Participant Media and Karl Weber
Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food by: Charles Wilson and Eric Schlosser
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by: Marion Nestle
Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by: Morgan Spurlock
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by: Peter Singer and Jim Mason
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by: James Howard Kunstler
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by: Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat by: Michael Pollan
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by: Barbara Kingsolver
Just Food : Where locavores get it wrong and how we can eat responsibly by: James E. McWilliams
FURTHER RESOURCES:
- Download the Food, Inc. discussion guide HERE.
- Check out Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move" campaign website.
- The opposite of a fast food nation? A Slow Food Nation! See their website for information. Their blog has some interesting information, as well.
ARTICLES:
"Captive Kids Report: Commercial Pressures on Kids at School"
Consumers Union
http://www.consumersunion.org/other/captivekids/pressures.htm
"The Commercialized Classroom"
by: Holley Knaus
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/03/mm0392_07.html
"School Commercialization Hurts All Children, Ethnic Minority Group Children Most of All"
by: Alex Molnar
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3211189
"Blurring Boundaries: Two Groups of Girls Collaborate on a Wiki"
by: Trace Schillinger
(Available online through Galileo and other library websites)
Description: Schillinger connects her classroom with another teacher's in a vastly different part of town; the students in both classes read the same material and participate in relevant discussions online. The project culminates with both groups able to finally meet in person and learn each other's real names and connect them with their screen names. The students not only learn about the text they are reading, but also about how the differences in their cultures affect how they read and interpret the text.BOOKS:
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child And The Repaired Consumer Culture
by: Juliet B. Schor
Food Inc. - A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sick
by: Participant Media and Karl Weber
Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food
by: Charles Wilson and Eric Schlosser
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
by: Marion Nestle
Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
by: Morgan Spurlock
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
by: Peter Singer and Jim Mason
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
by: James Howard Kunstler
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by: Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat
by: Michael Pollan
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
by: Barbara Kingsolver
Just Food : Where locavores get it wrong and how we can eat responsibly
by: James E. McWilliams
MOVIES:
Fast Food Nation
Food, Inc.
Supersize Me
Killer at Large
Bad Seed: The Truth About Our Food