学生在学习期间应注意健康的饮食习惯
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
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
这里是VOA慢速英语教育报道。
美国大约五分之一6岁至19岁之间的人肥胖。为了降低该数字，一些学校开始教学生怎样更好地选择食物。
教师和学生：“我可以吃菠菜和什么呢？谁能给我一个组合？菠菜和——Diego，你来说。”“茄子？”“茄子，菠菜和茄子。这是我的第一个组合。”
Hannah Chen正在华盛顿一个数学班教给八岁和九岁的孩子怎样对食品进行搭配。
Hannah Chen：“我们将食品搭配成不同类型的组合，例如批萨，我们提供两种配料，孩子们可以进行选择，看一下用这些配料可以搭配成多少各种各样的组合。”
EW Stokes政府特许学校开始在三年级的数学和英语教学中涉及食物的话题。这所学校与加州旧金山环保组织“幼苗项目”达成了合作伙伴关系。
Peter Nalli是“农田到课桌”项目的课程主任。他表示，他们这样做的部分目的是解决儿童肥胖的问题。
Peter Nalli：“我们的项目的一个重要因素就是，我们相信，如果孩子在教学过程中接触到的是积极的，健康的食物信息，这会产生长期的有利影响。”
校长Makeisha Daye表示，学校从当地农田购买大部分食物，但是也有一些由学生亲手种植。
Makeisha Daye：“他们现在正在移植所有作物，这样我们就可以使用来自我们的菜园的新鲜的香料和蔬菜。孩子们非常喜欢。”
教师Hannah Chen赞同这种说法。
HANNAH CHEN：“我们学校有一个色拉吧，孩子们非常喜欢。他们喜欢那里的水果和蔬菜。所以我认为，这对他们的生活产生了重要的影响。”
她说，三年级的学生还学会了怎样阅读食品包装上的糖和脂肪含量。她说，EW Stokes政府特许学校计划明年将“从农田到课桌”项目扩大到其他年级。
政府特许学校获得公共资金拨款，但是不需要像传统的公立学校那样遵守同样的规则。
许多政府特许学校有专门的研究领域——例如洛杉矶附近的环境特许高中。学生们学习保护环境的重要性。Rigo Estrada说，过去他常常在街上乱扔垃圾。
Rigo Estrada：“但是现在我看了第一手录像资料，我经常到沙滩上进行清洁，我帮助开发了排水系统，我还教给小学生节约用水的重要性，我了解了环保的重要性，这确实是一个非常严肃的话题。”
学生们还学习怎样准备商业计划，帮助自己支付读大学的费用。他们从教师和学校以外的专家那里学习，例如Nancy Gale。她拥有一家制作手袋的环保型企业。
Nancy Gale：“该项目的想法是，如果这些孩子看到他们能够一起进行什么活动，能够取得什么样的成绩，他们就会意识到，和在成功的公立学校就读的孩子一样，他们的技能一定能够延伸到现实世界。”
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