FDA/NSTA Web Seminars:

Teach Science Concepts and Inquiry with Food

This Web Seminar, sponsored by the FDA, took place on April 9, 2008, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Eastern Time. Presenting was Richard Bonnette, a Consumer Safety Officer with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the Division of Biotechnology and GRAS Notice Review at the FDA. Mr. Bonnette talked about salt.

• See this Web Seminar's Archive
• PowerPoint Presentation (1.46 MB)
• Presentation - PDF version (1.84 MB)

This web seminar was the first of two related to the FDA Symposium that took place at the NSTA National Conference on Science Education in Boston, Massachusetts. The program focused on salt. The presenter defined the term “salt”, talked about where it is found and how it is made. He also talked about salt and health and the FDA activities related to salt. The Web seminar was designed for educators of grades 5-8.

Twenty-five (25) participants were present at the live Web Seminar in addition to the presenter and NSTA staff. Participating educators represented the states of California, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming. Seminar participants received a one year subscription to one of NSTA’s SciGuide for completing the evaluation form at the end of the program.

Here are some comments provided by the participants at the end of the Web Seminar:

• "This Web Seminar gave me some insight on how I might use labels and
  some research to help the students learn about nutrition and physiology.”



• “I really liked the program with the presentation, the chat, and the audio.
  It was very neat.”



• “I like this way of getting information on a wide variety of topics. I
  don't have to travel, but I'm getting great information to share with my
  students.”



• “I learned how salt actually affects the human body in relation to kidney
  function and blood pressure. It was also interesting to learn the amount of
  salt in foods and how much salt we should actually have in our diet.”

Thanks to the participants and the presenter for the learning opportunity, the interactions, and a job well done!

Websites

• U.S. FDA/Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
  http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  http://www.fda.gov/
• Making Your Calories Count
  http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/labelman.html

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For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org

Underwritten in part by FDA