đź“ť Inside The Food Detectives Workshop: For Teachers, It's As Easy As 1-2-3
Facilitating the Food Detectives workshop in your fourth grade classroom is as easy as pie.
We know teachers are busy. That’s why when you request a workshop, we send you a free kit in the mail with everything you need, including access to our interactive website that leads your class through the program.
Let’s dive into how easy it is to turn your fourth graders into Food Detectives!
📚It’s Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy
Interested in facilitating a Food Detectives workshop? It’s as easy as 1-2-3!
1. Request a kit
Click on “Request A Box” on the homepage of our website and you’ll be taken to our online order form. We will collect information like your name, school, preferred workshop month, and class size so that we can get you the right number of booklets and stickers at the right time.
2.review the materials and Prepare your classroom
Your kit includes:
A facilitator’s guide with everything you need to know
A workbook for each student to fill out throughout the course
A Food Detectives sticker for each student
Laminated food products for students to explore
Access to our super-secret program website
We designed the workshop to be easy to teach with minimal prep. For classroom setup, you’ll just want to make sure you can access the website and play back the videos, and arrange your students into five groups. That’s it!
3. facilitate the program
Once you’re ready to teach, just project our website onto your smartboard and we take it from there. Our easy-to-navigate site leads students on their journey to become Food Detectives through a mix of animated content, live action videos, and timed investigations.
Our curriculum typically takes about three hours to teach, and is broken up into five lessons:
Introduction
The Front of the Box: Marketing
The Back of the Box: Nutrition Label & Ingredient Lists
Inside the Box: Additives
Final Challenge: Food Fight!
It is easy to start and stop at any point, so you can work it into your schedule. Most teachers find that teaching it in 20-40 minute segments over the course of 1-2 weeks works best, but you do you!
🧑‍🏫 What do teachers need?
No printing, copying, or hole punching required. All you need to teach the workshop is:
A stable internet connection
A projector or Smartboard and speaker
An appetite for adventure!
đź“ť What do students learn?
Three hours of high-quality, interactive, standards-aligned content - it doesn’t get much better than that! In this course students learn about
Food Marketing – Food companies spend $2 Billion/year marketing to kids. Why?
Nutrition Labels– Explore key information like servings, serving sizes, and sugars.
Ingredient Lists – The best way to find out what’s really in your food..
Additives – What are all of those mysterious sounding ingredients?
Critical Thinking – Take everything you learned, analyze food products, and practice making informed food choices
đź“Š The Data Is In - Our Program Makes An Impact
We have almost two decades of data and it consistently shows that students score 35% higher on our nutrition education assessment after taking the workshop. Not only that, but they self-report being more curious about what is in their food, and say they are likely to change the way they shop.
Teachers love us too! 100% would recommend the program to other teachers, 85% find it personally informative, and many tell us it is one of the units they look most forward to teaching every year.
🍎 Final Word
We are passionate about food education, and we know teachers are too - but it can be hard to find or design impactful food-based curriculum. That’s why we designed a program that is fun, informative, and easy to teach.
Want to find out how easy it is to teach our workshop? Request a Box and find out!