Eat Your Radio

Category: Stories

  • 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…

  • Letters to Dr. Carrot – Decorative Writing Paper

      Ashley Elementary Students created beautifully decorated writing paper, and the decorations show their own ideas for the great and mysterious Dr. Carrot.  Ashley students created many varieties of decorated writing paper, with plenty of space in the middle for writing your own message.  So, you can choose the one you like and print it…

  • Call-in show – Colorado nutrition policy for children

    LISTEN (1 Hour) KGNU Station Manager Sam Fuqua talks with three experts on Colorado’s Nutrition Policy for children. Katherine Moos, Child Nutrition Program Manager for Hunger Free Colorado, Anne Bennett, MPH, RD Director of Nutrition Services WIC Services – Women, Infants and Children Tri-County Health Department, Cody Belzley Vice President of Public Affairs, Colorado Children s Campaign

  • Call-In show -Taking food lessons home to the kitchen table

    LISTEN (1 Hour) KGNU Station Manager Sam Fuqua talks about how to eat healthy, with Ashley Elementary Principal Ken Hulslander and Integrated Nutrition Education Outreach Coordinator Catia Chavez.  Catia Chavez explains the outreach programs provided to children (ideally in 1-hour lessons once a week for roughly 8 weeks per semester), and outreach programs for parents, such…

  • Listener Survey Gives High Ratings to “Eat Your Radio”

    . . . More than half of Donors (55%) and Voters (59%) who tuned in to the healthy eating programming say they actually changed their eating habits in some way as a result.  That is an incredibly high percentage.  — Talmey-Drake Research and Strategy Inc. With support from the Colorado Health Foundation, KGNU hired an independent…

  • Call-in Show – Superfoods

      How can parents and families help vegetables be healthy and fun? Here is a written transcript of a call-in show, for ideas from Denver Public Schools Superfoods Director Anne Wilson, and from KGNU fans who include 2nd grader Cassidy, Oakleigh Thorne from Thorne Ecological Institute and many more. Show hosted by Shelley Schlender.  …

  • The Unicycle Story

    One of the most whimsical “vehicles” in the world is the unicycle.  It’s also one of the most challenging ways to get around.  But at the appropriately named grade school, “Uni” Hill, a circus club teaches children to ride the uni-cycle.  Casey Middle School 7th grade Sophia is a graduate of the Uni Hill Circus…

  • Scratch Cooking at Randolph High

    Watch Video (Use Quicktime Player) School Lunch – from Scratch I can’t wait to taste the food they’ll serve this year! – Bruce Randolph Senior High Student This summer, Denver Public Schools Food Services kicked off an exciting project they call Back To the Future With Scratch Cooking.

  • Call-in Show – Middle school students discuss teen pregnancy

    While EatYourRadio is a project about health and nutrition, sometimes students have asked to cover other health topics.  One year, the health topic chosen by middle school students in Boulder was teen pregnancy.  We have posted that series of shows to a sister site.  Here is a link to that series, and that show.