Objectives:
- To help students learn which food is fruit.
- To introduce the concept of healthy food.
- To introduce concept of where food comes from.

Join us as we recreate a World War I donut recipe used by Ethel Ash. Ash volunteered with the YMCA, a uniformed organization that worked alongside the military to boost morale. She served in France where she made hundreds of donuts a day for soldiers, with limited ingredients available to her. The Spotlight Series takes a look at stories from both our Register, an interactive online database of military women, and our world class collection.Recipe:1 cup water¼ cup butter¼ cup sugar¼ teaspoon cinnamon2 tablespoons cocoa powder½ teaspoon vanilla extract1 ¼ cup self-rising flour½ cup Sweetened Condensed MilkMusic: https://www.bensound.com

Objectives:
To understand what fruit is.
To explore how fruits are developed.

Video Description:  In this close-up video, Dr. Catherine Nakalembe, Remote Sensing Scientist for NASA Harvest, shares her passion for helping farmers around the world through the use of NASA satellites to monitor crops from space to increase sustainability. She also describes how her love for hiking, photography, and travel supports her work.  Video Length:  2:09.NASA eClipsTM is a suite of online student-centered, standards-based resources that support instruction by increasing STEM literacy in formal and nonformal settings.  These free digital and downloadable resources inform and engage students through NASA-inspired, real-world connections.NASA eClips Ask SME: Close-up with a NASA Subject Matter Expert videos are professionally developed to capture a glimpse of NASA SME's personal interests and career journeys. Each can be used to spark student interest and broaden their ideas of the STEM workforce. Additional videos in this series can be found by searching GoOpenVA using "NASA eClips Ask SME".

Video Description:  In this close-up video, Dr. Inbal Becker-Reshef, Program Director for NASA Harvest, describes her journey and how her travels as a child helped her choose a career in science over her passion for art. She shares how cameras on satellites provide data to help farmers and agricultural leaders grow more food and work toward food security worldwide.  Video Length:  2:21.NASA eClipsTM is a suite of online student-centered, standards-based resources that support instruction by increasing STEM literacy in formal and nonformal settings.  These free digital and downloadable resources inform and engage students through NASA-inspired, real-world connections.NASA eClips Ask SME: Close-up with a NASA Subject Matter Expert videos are professionally developed to capture a glimpse of NASA SME's personal interests and career journeys. Each can be used to spark student interest and broaden their ideas of the STEM workforce. Additional videos in this series can be found by searching GoOpenVA using "NASA eClips Ask SME".

Video Description:  In this close-up video, Dr. Hannah Kerner, Artificial Intelligence Lead at NASA Harvest, shares her experiences in writing code and developing machine learning algorithms that enable NASA satellites to monitor where food is being grown. She describes how her hobbies of hiking, scuba diving, and volunteering intersect with her work.  Video Length:  2:28.NASA eClipsTM is a suite of online student-centered, standards-based resources that support instruction by increasing STEM literacy in formal and nonformal settings.  These free digital and downloadable resources inform and engage students through NASA-inspired, real-world connections.NASA eClips Ask SME: Close-up with a NASA Subject Matter Expert videos are professionally developed to capture a glimpse of NASA SME's personal interests and career journeys. Each can be used to spark student interest and broaden their ideas of the STEM workforce. Additional videos in this series can be found by searching GoOpenVA using "NASA eClips Ask SME".

NASA eClips Real World:  Food Security -- Monitoring Crops from SpaceVideo Description:  Discover how NASA's Earth-observing satellites gather data to monitor food growth. Dr. Inbal Becker-Reshef describes how mathematics is used to interpret satellite data and describe vegetation and crop yield. Dr. Hannah Kerner shares how algorithms and models use NASA data to describe and predict food supply and food shortages. This work through NASA Harvest provides tools for farmers and governments to describe and predict food security worldwide. Video Length:  5:25.NASA eClipsTM is a suite of online student-centered, standards-based resources that support instruction by increasing STEM literacy in formal and nonformal settings.  These free digital and downloadable resources inform and engage students through NASA-inspired, real-world connections.NASA eClips Real World segments (grades 6-8) connect classroom mathematics to 21st Century careers and innovations.  They are designed for students to develop an appreciation for mathematics through real-world problem solving.

This resource would be best used in a Spanish level 2 or 3 class where students are learning how to talk about food. In the resource, native Spanish speakers are individually talking about their favorite foods (dishes, individual foods, etc.) and sometimes refer to their origins. Students will be guided through understanding others talk about their favorite foods.

Objectives:
* Learn about Native American culture
* Introduce codependent plants (ecosystems)

This resource can be used as an anticipatory set to begin a unit on Navidad (Christmas). Ideally, students are familiar with the Spanish speaking countries and where they are located on the map.

Display the image as a warm up activity and have students respond in writing to the following questions:

1) Mira a los platos tipicos de cada pais, ¿Adonde quieres viajar?
2) ¿Qué quieres comer?
3) ¿Cuál país tiene un plato similar a los Estados Unidos?
4) ¿Cómo se llama uno de los platos tipicos de Mexico?

Then, students can pair up to review answers and practice their interpersonal speaking.

Share out as a whole group.

Then, to dive deeper into the image, students can choose a specific dish that they want to research further. Students will answer the following questions:

1) ¿De cuál país es este plato?
2) ¿Es un aperitivo, plato principal, o postre?
3) ¿Cuáles ingredientes hay en este plato?
4) ¿Tu familia come algo similar durante la Navidad?
5) ¿Quieres probar este plato?
6) Describe un plato tradicional que tu familia come en Navidad?

A follow up or culminating activity can be for students to make a dish from a particular country to share with the whole class at the end of the unit.