Eat Your Radio

Author: Shelley Schlender

  • Superfoods – Apples at Ashley

    Superfoods are natural foods high in vitamins, minerals, fiber and other healthy nutrition.  In this video, Ashley 5th graders encourage classmates to enjoy apples in the school lunchroom on a Superfoods Day that features Miss Anne Wilson, the Superfoods Lady, dressed up in her apple costume.  Ashley broadcast the audio portion of this presentation during…

  • Walk to School Day

    Students at Ashley Elementary encourage friends and family to join in for national Walk to School Day.  The audio version of these announcements broadcast throughout the school on the morning announcements, and here they are as videos for Eat Your Radio.  This was also part of “Bike to School” Day. Ashley 5th grade students featured:…

  • Students rehearse questions for school lunch survey

    Middle school student Sam practices being a lunch eater who teacher Mr. D is interviewing, while other students film from different angles.  This is in preparation for actually interviewing real students about school lunch, and also learning how to make a video with a lot of interesting angles mixed in.  Sam says that he actually…

  • Middle School Students talk about Supersize Me

    Middle School Students in Scott Griffith’s cooking  class at Centennial Middle School talk about how watching Supersize Me has affected their views about fast food.

  • Cooking Class at Centennial Middle School – Day 1

    Centennial Middle School Cooking Class. Teacher Scott Griffith talks with students about the cooking projects up ahead:   Teacher Scott Griffith welcomes middle school students to Centennial Middle School’s first cooking class, and students make a wish list of what they want to create.

  • CU Health Science Professor Richard Johnson – The Sugar Fix

    In case you think table sugar is safer than high fructose corn syrup, and juice is better that soda . . .

  • The Rise of Asthma and Autoimmune Disease

    This program broadcast on KGNU’s science show.  To hear the interview, LISTEN to the show. We look at the strange rise in autoimmune diseases, allergies and asthma, with experts from the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center and with National Jewish Health Immunlogist Andy Liu in Denver. And, we explore whether genetically modified crops might…

  • Super Salad Contest – Entry form at Ashley

      Editor’s Note:  This video shows students sampling the popular, student-invented salads that were featured at Ashley’s International Day.  On this day, a big green mailbox was next to the salad bar, along with “voting” forms, and students voted on their favorite salad of the six finalists there at the salad bar.  The top fruit…

  • New Tool for Measuring Academic Achievement in Colorado

    Editor’s note – This is a story about the new standardized test model for Colorado, and it shows students as part of a report that was heard around the world.

  • Singing the Praises of School Breakfast

    LISTEN (3 Minutes) One year, Colorado considered cutting funds for the school breakfast program.  At the last minute, the funding was allowed to say.  Students at Ashley Elementary made up songs, and created this story, that broadcast on KGNU, to explain why they are glad that this program continued.  For them, free and reduced breakfast…