ONLINE WEB RESOURCES

Online Web Resource No.1 - FUN FOOD FACTS

http://www.nms.on.ca/Elementary/fun_food_facts.htm

This website is all about fun facts about food. I mean literally fun facts like “the founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in Hamburgerology”. Its sounds funny right!!! But there is actually a place called Hamburger University and MacDonald’s owns it.

This website could be useful for introducing subjects to students like fast food or can even be used an ice breaker. I think it will be bring an element of humour to the subject.

Online Web Resource No.2 - UNWRAPPED
http://www.foodnetwork.com/unwrapped/index.html

Unwrapped is an awesome show and whoever who is a food lover who has watched will agree with me. This programme is all about uncovering the process behind how commercial products like ice cream, salsa and even Tabasco sauce(which by the way takes years to produce).

This programme is useful for home economics especially when we want to methods of preservation. You can use the videos to show blast freezing methods and of course it can also serve a source of general knowledge for students.

Online Web Resource No.3 - FOOD PYRAMIDS

http://www.gourmetgiftbaskets.com/Listing-Of-Special-Food-Pyramids.asp & http://www.oldwayspt.org/mediterraneandiet (many more)

As we all know, food pyramids are a compulsory subject in home economics and some of our students may already know about it. That is where this website helps. It shows all the food pyramids that are used in the world (Asian, Mediterranean, Latin and many more) and they all differ from one another. This can be used as a bus-stop activity for lower secondary students to compare and contrast pyramids.

Online Web Resource No.4 - KIDS CRAFTS

http://www.freekidscrafts.com/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_cat&catid=51&page=4

This website is mainly a crafts website. The interesting part is that they use food to do their crafts. And as you can see from the picture, kids can be creative when they are allowed to think out of the box. I think this website is a good source for ideas for students to get ideas for food presentation especially when they do their food practicals or coursework.

Online Web Resource No.5 - HEALTH & DIET-RELATED DISEASES

http://www.clearlyhealth.com/videos/diabetes/introduction

This is a website on health and is focused on diabetes, heart, stroke and osteoporosis. However, I think that this is a very good source to explain diet-related disease for the upper secondary students. This website shows how the diseases affect our body using animation and is simple to understand. I have used this before and I think students will find it beneficial.