Eat Your Radio

Category: Schools

  • Pumpkin Superfood and Pumpkin Parfait

      Click here to see slideshow. (with Quicktime Player) With Halloween right around the corner, bright orange pumpkins are making their festive annual debut. KRCCs Ellen Mahoney visited the pumpkin patch at Rock Creek Farm in Broomfield and talked with farmer Scott Miller. Then Ellen went to Swansea Elementary School in Denver when she met with…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Student chefs cook up healthy lunches

      http://www.voanews.com/content/student-chefs-cook-up-healthy-lunches-94256594/161937.html

  • Veggies vs Hot Cheetos

    LISTEN (3 Minutes) ROCK – Go, go power Rangers!  Go, Go, Rock-a-Rock Rock.  My name is Rock.  I’m a fifth grader and it’s nice to be a fifth grader.  Very fun, too. MARIA – My name is Maria.  It’s really fun being a fifth grader, especially being in the Eat Your Radio Project. Veggies Veggies…