Reviews of DCX130 Sites

1. Washington Apples

http://www.bestapples.com/index.shtml

I'm sure alot of us have heard of Washington Apples. They are crunchy, juicy and delicious! Well here is the site of these apples. In here, not only do they present information about Washington Apples itself, but they also give further information on healthy living, recipes, and even meeting the grower of these apples! You can also buy Washington Apples merchandise here!

Students and teachers alike can benefit alot from this site, pertaining to the topic of apples. Here, you can find the nutrition facts of a Washington Apple. You can find quite alot of information zooming in on apples that relate to Food and Nutrition.

Students can also learn about the different varieties of apples here, and this would be interesting for them to know about in Food and Nutrition, where they would be able to choose different types of apples when shopping for apples as a consumer.

Methods on how to prepare apples are also shown here. Coring, peeling, cutting into chunks or sticks, are all different ways of preparing apples whether for further cooking or just snacking on them.

Also, here, the site provides important terms that are associated with apples that teachers can use to inform students with.

Last but not least, there is also a "Teacher's Corner" for teachers to use some of the resources as well as get some ideas on making fun activities for the classroom. Although some of the activities of this particular teacher's corner is more inclined towards students of younger age (below Sec 3 and 4), it could still be a fun activity for Food and Nutrition students.

Overall, I think that this site is quite a useful and interesting one, albeit focusing only on apples.

Overall Rating: 3.5/5

2. Learning Seed
http://www.learningseed.com/

This site actually sells lots of resources pertaining to topics mainly on Food and Nutrition. As a teacher, I am able to find a wealth of resources that would be useful in my teaching of the subject. I can choose to purchase some of these items if I want to, and thus add on to my collection of resources.

Also, this site is easy to navigate as they allow me to browse categories by subject. As such, I am able to zoom in when searching for a particular item in a subject that I may want to look for. (For example, if i click on "Food and Nutrition" I will be brought to a page where resources are listed such as a video on Germs and Viruses: A Self-Defense Guide )

In this site, there is also a section on Life Skills which have resource items that include kitchen safety, sewing seams, etc. I find it very useful to have these resources categorised neatly. On the other hand though, I find it a bit troublesome as I would have to purchase any item I may want first online, and receiving it would take quite awhile. Thus the resources here are not available for immediate use.

Some of these resources include in DVD format (videos) which I can use to show students so that they would be more excited to learn visually.

Purchasing the items would require me to have an account and log in, but even so, the site does not ship to Singapore. =(

Moreover, I feel that this is a very useful website for me as a teacher to build on my resources on teaching Food and Nutrition.

Overall Rating: 4/5