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CLASSROOM SPOTLIGHT SCIENCE STARS African-American MD & Columbia Former US Surgeon General Elementary 3rd Regina Benjamin grade teacher Regina Benjamin was born on Rebecca Weiss shows October 26, 1956, in . students Kaleze Doss, Armond She was raised by her mother Strother, Christopher Williams and grandmother. In 1979, she and Raniah Malone how to use the newspaper to find STEM graduated from Xavier University in lessons. Lousiana with a BS in Chemistry. She served as an intern with the Photo by Wiley Price/St. Louis CIA and attended Morehouse American School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University Teachers, if you are using the St. Louis American’s NIE program and would of Alabama in 1984, and her MBA from . like to nominate your class for a Classroom Spotlight, please email: nie@ Benjamin is also the recipient of 22 honorary degrees. stlamerican.com. Because Benjamin received help from the government to pay for her medical school, she had to work in a community SCIENCE CORNER Healthy Habits that needed physicians. In 1990, she started the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic on the Golf Coast. She treated Your health has three To be physically healthy, it’s For your mental health, you need patients who had not been able to afford health care due main categories: important to eat healthy foods to have strategies to help you to lack of insurance or money. She allowed patients to pay physical (body), mental for energy—fruits, vegetables, cope with stress. Some might whatever they could afford, in whatever form they could. (mind), and spirit protein, dairy, and whole include yoga, art, music, talking Sometimes, patients volunteered their services to pay for (social/emotional). It grains. It’s also important to drink to friends, etc. Social/emotional medical treatments. This clinic was rebuilt many times, due is important to have plenty of water. Your heart and muscles health is important, too. You need to to Hurricane George, , and a fire. healthy habits in all three need daily exercise. Strive to get a have positive friends who support you In 1995, Benjamin became the first African-American woman categories because all of the categories minimum of 30 minutes a day. Ideally, and encourage you. Positive self talk is and the first physician under the age of 40 to be on the work together. For example, if your you should get 60 minutes. important, too. Can you think of three American Medical Association’s board of trustees. In 2002, physical health is poor, it can Your body also needs rest kind things to say to yourself? she became the first African-American woman to become affect your mental health or and relaxation and a Learning Standards: president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. your social/emotional health. good night’s sleep. I can read nonfiction text for main idea In 2009, she became the US Surgeon General, nominated by Strive to be healthy in all Be sure you sleep for and supporting details. I can make President . As surgeon general, she stated that areas. 8-10 hours per night. text-to-self connections. individuals should strive to be healthy, instead of simply waiting to treat a sickness. She promoted eating healthy SCIENCE INVESTIGATION foods, including MyPlate and exercising, as well. In May Fatty Foods 2013, the Reader’s Digest ranked her as one of the “100 Most Trusted People in America.” She resigned in 2013. Have you ever wondered how much fat is in the squares so you remember food you eat? In this experiment, you which food you rubbed on Benjamin was featured in many magazines, including Time, will get to see the fat first hand. each one. People, Reader’s Digest, and Clarity. She received many awards and honors, including: Time magazine’s “Nation’s 50 Materials Needed: Now you have to leave e Future Leaders Age 40 and Under,” ABC World News Tonight’s Brown Paper Grocery Bags them overnight. The next day • “Person of the Week,” and CBS This Morning’s “Woman of (cut into small squares) you’ll see which foods have the Year.” She was the recipient of the Nelson • Different Foods to Test (Ex: french the most fat. The foods that fries, potato chips, a baked potato, peanuts, Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights in 1998, and leave the greasiest spots are peanut butter, an apple, a banana, a hot dog, in 2000, she won the National Caring Award, inspired by the fattiest food. and butter) . She was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award • Scissors r Which foods had the Fellowship and was the recipient of the Chairman’s Award Procedure: most fat? Which had the least? during the worldwide broadcast of the 42nd NAACP Image Were you surprised by the q Make a prediction—which foods Awards. results? do you think will be the fattiest? Rank them from most fatty Learning Standards: I can read about a person who to least fatty. Learning Standards: I can follow a sequential set has made contributions in the fields of science, technology, of directions to complete an experiment. I can make w Rub each piece of food onto a separate paper bag engineering, and math. I can make text- predictions, and analyze results. I can make text-to-world square. Count to twenty while you rub so that you test to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections. each food for the same amount of time. Be sure to label the connections. MAP CORNER MATH CONNECTION Food Fractions Enjoy these Apply your critical thinking skills to solve activities that these problems. c You are making homemade ice cream for 8 people. The help you get to recipe calls for 2¼ cups of cream for every 2 people. How know your St. z At a birthday party, you were much cream will you need ______Louis American told you could have .6, 60%, 3/5, newspaper. or 6% of the candy from the piñata. v There is 1/2 of a quiche in the Which 3 will give you the same size refrigerator. For breakfast, you eat Activity One — portion? ______1/3 of it. How much quiche is Functions of the remaining______Newspaper: Different parts x 4/7 of the birthday cake was eaten at of the body control different your party. The next day, your brother Learning Standards: I can functions—your lungs control your breathing, your heart ate 1/2 of the leftover cake. You get add, subtract, multiply, and controls the blood flow, etc. The newspaper divide to solve a problem. to have all the cake that remains. How has various sections that also have unique much cake is left? ______functions. Look through the newspaper. What sections does it include? What type of information can you find in each section?

DID YOU KNOW? According to the President’s Council on Fitness, Only one in three children are Activity Two — Sports & Nutrition: More than 6.5 million physically active every day. Food for Thought: —Look through the newspaper to find children live in food deserts—areas that are examples of food choices. Divide them into three categories: more than a mile away from a supermarket. 4 out of 100 school aged children Green light foods (these are foods you are encouraged to eat (age 5-11) has a food allergy. often), yellow light foods (they are ok in small quantities), 17.7% of school age children and red light foods (only to be consumed in small quantities (age 6-11) are obese. Nearly 45% of children living in on rare occasions). According to the Center for Disease Control poverty are overweight or obese Learning Standards: I can use the newspaper to locate and Prevention (CDC): 83.8% of school age compared with 22% of children information. I can make text- Health Facts children (age 5-11) are in excellent or very living in households with incomes to-text and text-to-self G good health. four times the poverty level. reen Yellow Re connections. Lig d ht Light Light Content–––Jennifer Wirthwein • Design–––Beth Sharpe Updated by–––Jonathan Irving