The projects centered around how health and fitness benefit our lives. Each teacher chose supporting questions to be researched and answered by the students in the process of investigation. Some questions posed were: How does nutrition affect our daily life? What are the effects on your well being if you don’t take adequate care of your body? Following the gathering of information, the results of students’ learning was documented in the form of movies, graphs, and print materials..

Melanie Hodge-Lewis (3rd Grade): Students kept a Commit to be Fit Journal, researched various foods to determine if they were a trick or a treat, and surveyed school faculty for opinions about the most important meal of the day. The latter two were made into videos.

Amy Laskowski (5th grade) and Gretchen Atkins (4th grade): Student conducted research, wrote scripts, and created videos on conducting a healthy lifestyle. Topics included Good Hygience, Healthy Snack Alternatives, Childhood Diseases, Test-taking Tips, and Fat vs. Muscle

Monica Moorman (2nd Grade): Students made pictograms of their food journals, created and recipes for healthy snacks that they turned into videos

Wellington Andrees (Science): Students researched Yoga, Tai Chi and Karate. They will create an exercise program for each and then created video so that they could be used in all of the classes. This was especially useful since due to construction, the school has no playground and must do the required physical education within the classroom

Selene Vasquez (Media Specialist): Assisted students and teachers with research and posting of projects on the web.