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ST. LOUIS AMERICAN • MARCH 13 - 19, 2014 A13 MAP CORNER This special Newspaper In Education initiative is made possible through The St. Louis American Foundation and its NIE Corporate Partners: The St. Louis American is proud to partner with Hazelwood, Ferguson- Florissant, Normandy, and the St. Louis Public School Districts to provide this classroom tool for STEM education for students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades, with content based on Missouri Learning Standards. stlamerican.com q Studies show that Americans eat 1.2 billion pounds of potato chips per year. How many pounds are consumed per day? _________ per month? _______ per week? ________ w If it takes 1,000 pounds of potatoes to make 350 pounds of potato chips, how many pounds does it take to make the 1.2 billion pounds of potato chips consumed in a year? _________ Using this statistic, how many pounds of potatoes does it take to make one pound of potato chips? _______ e Survey your classmates to determine Purpose: In this experiment you will study how light affects the direction of growth in a plant. Materials Needed: Shooting Potato (one that has little white shoots growing out of it) • Box with Lid • Scissors • Rocks Process: q Cut a small coin-size hole in the short end of the box. w Put a handful of potting mix in the corner of the box opposite the hole you made. e Lay the potato in the soil. r Create “obstacles” by placing rocks in the box with the potato. t Put the lid on the box and place it in an area with a lot of light. SCIENCE EXPERIMENT Use the newspaper to complete these activities to sharpen your skills for the MAP test. Activity One — Health Article: Potatoes are a very healthy food. Find a news article about health. Summarize the article to include who, what, when, where, why and how in the article. Activity Two — Medical/ Health Professional Job Listings: Look in the classified ads of your newspaper and find job listings for medical/ health professionals. What is the median pay range? What are the job requirements? Education requirements? Benefits? Opportunities for advancement? Learning Standards: I can use a newspaper to locate information. I can summarize important information. COUNT Your Chips! Train Your Potato Shoots! AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHEF AND INVENTOR: George Crum George Crum was born as George Speck in 1822 in Saratoga Lake, New York. His father was African American and his mother a member of the Native American Huron tribe. His father used the name “Crum” in his career as a jockey and George Speck adopted “Crum” as his last name. When he was young, Crum worked as a guide in the Adirondack Mountains and learned that he had a natural talent in the culinary arts. He sought work as a chef and found employment at Saratoga Springs’ Moon Lake Lodge resort in the summer of 1853. A popular menu item was French fried potatoes. Crum had a guest complain that the potatoes were cut too thick and sent them back to the kitchen. In response, Crum cut the potato as thin as he could and fried it in grease until it was crispy. Surprisingly, the guest loved the crisps and other guests requested to have them, too. “Saratoga Chips” were soon added as a regular menu item. Seven years later, Crum opened his own restaurant, “Crumbs House,” near Saratoga Lake, which featured a basket of potato chips on every table. In 1890, Crum closed his restaurant and he died in 1914 at the age of 92. He never sought a patent for his potato chips, but the popularity soon caught on. A man named William Tappendon began making potato chips to sell to grocery stores in 1895. In 1926, Laura Scudder designed the “bag of chips” by placing potato chips in wax paper bags. Six years later, Herman Lay founded Lay’s chips in Nashville, Tennessee, and was the first successfully marketed brand of potato chips. Today, they are still a favorite American snack food, with sales over $6 billion per year. Learning Standards: I can read a biography of a person who has contributed to the field of math, science, and technology. the most popular flavor of potato chip. Create a bar graph to display your results. r 1 ounce of potato chips has about 110 calories and 10 grams of fat. If you buy a bag of chips that is 8 ounces, how many servings are in the bag? ______ How many calories are in the bag? ________ How many grams of fat are in the entire bag? __________ Learning Standards: I can add, subtract, multiply, and divide to solve a problem. SCIENCE STARS Teachers, if you are using the St. Louis American’s NIE program and would like to nominate your class for a Classroom Spotlight, please email: [email protected]. Walnut Grove Elementary School 3rd grade teacher Ms. Storms with students Larry Alderson, Janiya Thomas, Angelina Moeller, and Grace Geer work on a science project for their STEM lesson. The school is in the Ferg/Flor School District. Photo: Wiley Price / St. Louis American Content—Jennifer Wirthwein • Design—Beth Sharpe Did you know on average 22% of all restaurant meals include potato chips? y Check the growth once a week for 4 weeks. Analyze: Plants grow toward the light. How will the obstacles affect the growth of the plant? Will the shoots still be able to grow towards the light? Want to Learn the Science Behind A Crisp Potato? Try this experiment at home: http://www.sciencebuddies. org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/ FoodSci_p042.shtml. Learning Standards: I can follow procedures to complete an experiment. I can analyze results. Potato chips are the #1 snack food in America. Americans eat 1.2 billion pounds per year. CLASSROOM SPOTLIGHT SCIENCE CORNER Potatoes And Nutrition ! Potatoes are a vegetable, a complex carbohydrate that provides your body with energy. According to myplate. gov, a 5.3 ounce medium-sized potato with the skin contains 45% of the daily value of vitamin C, 620 mg of potassium (comparable to bananas, spinach, and broccoli), 10% of the daily value of B6, and trace amounts of thiamine, riboflavin, folate, magnesium, phosphorous, iron, and zinc. In 2011, The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that meals that contained potatoes were significantly higher in potassium, fiber, and vitamin C. Potatoes contain antioxidants and are the largest and most affordable source of potassium and vitamin C in the produce department. However, to enjoy these nutrients you must eat the skin— that’s where 20% of the potato’s nutrition is found. Many people believe that potatoes are fattening and should be avoided to lose weight. That is not true. Without any added fat, a medium potato has 100 calories, and no fat, sodium, or cholesterol. In 2010, the University of California released research that demonstrated that people that included potatoes in their diet still lost weight. Overall diet quality is improved when adults and children consume non-fried potatoes. Healthier options include topping a baked potato with salsa, steamed vegetables, low-fat sour cream, or Greek yogurt. You can add flavor to mashed potatoes by using chicken broth instead of butter. Potatoes can also be roasted with garlic, olive oil, and herbs. They are a very versatile food. Read More About Potatoes Here: http://science. howstuffworks.com/life/botany/potato-info.htm. Learning Standards: I can read nonfiction text to find main idea and supporting details. MATH CONNECTION DID YOU KNOW? In the 1950s, small independent companies began the trend of flavoring their potato chips. Pharmacy looking for a part-time certified technician. The position offered is for 25-30 hours per week and the candidate must be schedule flexible. The candidate must be/have: -nationally certified. -previous retail pharmacy experience. -able to read prescriptions and enter into computer. -fill prescription, put away order, ring register. -includes front-end merchandising which will The most popular potato chip flavors in the US are sour cream and onion and barbecue. It takes 1,000 pounds of potatoes to make 350 pounds of potato chips.
