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Nutrition: what do you eat? How do you teach kids about food?
Food Chain by The Slushey One licensed by CC BY NC Nutrition is a big focus in our curriculum at UNIS Hanoi. I teach this unit to Grade 7 students every year and the challenge is to figure out what to teach and how to spend our precious 10 hours or so. The last two years, I decided to do too much take a different direction and try and step out into some new territory or to share familiar topics in a new way. My inspiration came a little from watching Jamie Oliver’s TED talks speech where he was awarded a prize from TED for his work. If you haven’t…
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VTC2013 at SSIS
Vietnam Tech Conference (#VTC2013) Presenting by Alice Bartlett CC BY NC The first annual Vietnam Tech Conference (VTC2013) kicked off on Saturday 3rd March at Saigon South Int’l School (SSIS). There are a host of great schools here with the idea that we can learn from each other. The weekend schedule was pretty loose with workshops/presentations running on the Saturday and then some unconference work for Sunday including Speedgeeking and an Unconference session based on interest from the participants and organisers. Schedule and blog of the Conference. Here are some notes from the sessions that I was lucky enough to participate in: Open Source Software by Urko Masse (SSIS) There…