These are annotated bibliographies put together by the following people: Jackie, Alicia, Michelle, and Kait. We are working together on a collaborative research project involving students lunches: bought vs. brought.
1. Unhealthy School Lunches Not Making the Grade, June 21, 2010
Even though it's always been a controversial topic to debate about, don't you think our students' health and weight issue is something we should talk about? After reading the article regarding whether or not school lunches are making the grade in nutritional terms, my group members and I investigated the dilemma through interviewing those in the food service industry as well. While many researches have proven that processed foods are high in fat, sugar, and salt, food service directors and committees protest that they are not. When looking at a typical meal served in a school cafeteria, how much of it is truly nutritional versus being fatty and loaded with carbs and sugars? In the United States, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that 17% of youngsters between the ages of 2-19 years are considered obese. These factors also begin to cause health problems such as Type II Diabetes, high blood pressure, low self-esteem, and even cause children to do poorly in school. So if you think about it, aren't children in school 180 days of the year, 5 days a week which means that they eat at school practically everyday excluding summers and weekends? This means that something the kids are eating, perhaps the daily school lunch are impacting the childrens' diet and unhealthy food consumption that results in negative affects for the students. Although the lunches may provide food groups required across the country to fulfill the health regulations, they still seem to be loaded with unhealthy ingredients that do harm for the students rather than good.
2. United States. School Meals. , 2011. Web. 15 Apr 2011. <http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/>.
We used this article to develop our definition of "nutritionally beneficial." The article talks about the Obama Administration providing nutritious meals in schools to improve the health of our nation's children. The criteria that we pulled to use for our checklist was increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free orlow-fat fluid milk.
3. Glassboro School District.
Our group used this website in order to further our knowledge of exactly what a monthly calendar of bought lunches includes. We used this to compare what the children are being served to the Obama Administrations definition of what is nutritionally beneficial.
4. YouTube. Kong, Michelle. Michelles mess 004
This video was used in our project to show video proof of what exactly the children whom are buying lunch are eating.
5. Glassboro Public Schools. Website
The website above helped our group to look at the regulations that the Glassboro school district has on bought lunches. We then compared this website to the following website to decipher which would help us further our studies in what is more nutritionally beneficial.
6.Congregational Budget Office. Website
This website was used to take a look at under what circumstances certain children would receive free or reduced lunches.
7. Little Village Academy. Website
School website that was included in our final project. This school was involved in a news article that describes that Little Village Academy actually banned children from bringing in a lunch from home.
8. Green Living Ideas. Website
A website that includes different ideas on how to make a brought lunch both healthy and eco-friendly.
9. WebMD. Website
A list of 10 easy lunch ideas that is suggested for parents to pack for either themselves or even children.
10. Reilly, P. (2011, March 31). Special Education. (J. Bosworth, Interviewer).
The following person interviewed, Ms. Pam Reilly, works at Durand Academy and Community Servies. Durand is a private special education school consisting of children from the ages of 5-16. Pam teaches a class of 9 students ranging from ages 9-13. This particular school does not have a cafeteria, so the children must pack their lunches every day. The interview was focused on whether or not the children seem to eat healthy.
11. Clark, B. (2011, March 31). Food Service Director . (M. Kong, Interviewer).
After settling on a topic question for our collaborative group project, our group instantly got started on scheduling our interviews with two different lunch directors in Glassboro, New Jersey. With this appointment, we collected interview questions as a group and sent one member to discuss the information regarding bought lunches from the cafeteria with the head director of food services. After interviewing Beth Clark, the head director of food services, I learned a lot of great information about school lunches and the benefits the school's lunches provide over brought lunches from home. As our representative, our group member, Michelle Kong, interview Beth Clark (director of food services in the Glassboro public school district, and concluded that bought lunches were a lot more nutritious for students compared to brought lunches from home. The interview consisted of numerous questions and responses that ultimately swayed our conclusion to bought lunches being a lot more healthier than any meals brought from home. (Clark, 2011).
1. Unhealthy School Lunches Not Making the Grade, June 21, 2010
Even though it's always been a controversial topic to debate about, don't you think our students' health and weight issue is something we should talk about? After reading the article regarding whether or not school lunches are making the grade in nutritional terms, my group members and I investigated the dilemma through interviewing those in the food service industry as well. While many researches have proven that processed foods are high in fat, sugar, and salt, food service directors and committees protest that they are not. When looking at a typical meal served in a school cafeteria, how much of it is truly nutritional versus being fatty and loaded with carbs and sugars? In the United States, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that 17% of youngsters between the ages of 2-19 years are considered obese. These factors also begin to cause health problems such as Type II Diabetes, high blood pressure, low self-esteem, and even cause children to do poorly in school. So if you think about it, aren't children in school 180 days of the year, 5 days a week which means that they eat at school practically everyday excluding summers and weekends? This means that something the kids are eating, perhaps the daily school lunch are impacting the childrens' diet and unhealthy food consumption that results in negative affects for the students. Although the lunches may provide food groups required across the country to fulfill the health regulations, they still seem to be loaded with unhealthy ingredients that do harm for the students rather than good.
2. United States. School Meals. , 2011. Web. 15 Apr 2011. <http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/>.
We used this article to develop our definition of "nutritionally beneficial." The article talks about the Obama Administration providing nutritious meals in schools to improve the health of our nation's children. The criteria that we pulled to use for our checklist was increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free orlow-fat fluid milk.
3. Glassboro School District.
Our group used this website in order to further our knowledge of exactly what a monthly calendar of bought lunches includes. We used this to compare what the children are being served to the Obama Administrations definition of what is nutritionally beneficial.
4. YouTube. Kong, Michelle. Michelles mess 004
This video was used in our project to show video proof of what exactly the children whom are buying lunch are eating.
5. Glassboro Public Schools. Website
The website above helped our group to look at the regulations that the Glassboro school district has on bought lunches. We then compared this website to the following website to decipher which would help us further our studies in what is more nutritionally beneficial.
6.Congregational Budget Office. Website
This website was used to take a look at under what circumstances certain children would receive free or reduced lunches.
7. Little Village Academy. Website
School website that was included in our final project. This school was involved in a news article that describes that Little Village Academy actually banned children from bringing in a lunch from home.
8. Green Living Ideas. Website
A website that includes different ideas on how to make a brought lunch both healthy and eco-friendly.
9. WebMD. Website
A list of 10 easy lunch ideas that is suggested for parents to pack for either themselves or even children.
10. Reilly, P. (2011, March 31). Special Education. (J. Bosworth, Interviewer).
The following person interviewed, Ms. Pam Reilly, works at Durand Academy and Community Servies. Durand is a private special education school consisting of children from the ages of 5-16. Pam teaches a class of 9 students ranging from ages 9-13. This particular school does not have a cafeteria, so the children must pack their lunches every day. The interview was focused on whether or not the children seem to eat healthy.
11. Clark, B. (2011, March 31). Food Service Director . (M. Kong, Interviewer).
After settling on a topic question for our collaborative group project, our group instantly got started on scheduling our interviews with two different lunch directors in Glassboro, New Jersey. With this appointment, we collected interview questions as a group and sent one member to discuss the information regarding bought lunches from the cafeteria with the head director of food services. After interviewing Beth Clark, the head director of food services, I learned a lot of great information about school lunches and the benefits the school's lunches provide over brought lunches from home. As our representative, our group member, Michelle Kong, interview Beth Clark (director of food services in the Glassboro public school district, and concluded that bought lunches were a lot more nutritious for students compared to brought lunches from home. The interview consisted of numerous questions and responses that ultimately swayed our conclusion to bought lunches being a lot more healthier than any meals brought from home. (Clark, 2011).
