Introduction      Task             Process    Resources  Evaluation Conclusion

Introduction

Today's children certainly have a different lifestyle than children did a generation ago. They live in fast times with fast paced lives. Many families do not plan, prepare and eat meals together due to work and responsibility schedules. Children and pre-teens find themselves eating on the run all too often.  A prevention plan for making wiser choices regarding on-the-go eating must be addressed. Better choices should start now in a pre- teen's daily diet to ensure a healthy, long life.

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The Task

In order to complete the project, you will need to answer the following questions.

• What is a "healthy" diet as defined by Health Canada in the Canada Food Guide?
• What components of food make it a good or poor choice?
• What is the nutritional information of common foods?
• What are alternate choices to "junk food"?                                        Back to Top

The Process and Resources

1. Define the components of a healthy diet through the Canada Food Guide.
2. Research Using the Food Guide and Guidelines for food types/servings that will contribute to a healthy diet for all people.
3. Explore the guidelines for a healthy diet from the sources below. Describe the important components of a healthy diet.

• Your body's daily needs or Calorie needs
• Find out about the nutritional information of you favourite fast food. Site 2
• Collect information on the nutritional content of specific foods at either your local supermarket, search Google (using keywords like nutritional value of foods or more specific like Oreos), visit CALORIES IN FOODS,  FOOD FACTS, SITE 2 or go to a NUTRITION SITE or NUTRI-FACTS that you can search for specific types of foods. Record what you find on your WORKSHEET.
• Collect information so that you can argue in your brochure and poster that there are alternative healthy foods that are just as good as less healthy foods.

OTHER RESOURCES:

http://kidshealth.org/kid/

http://www.eatright.org/

http://www.exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition/

FUN FACTS

http://www.familyfoodzone.com/

http://www.fitwatch.com/database/foodcomparison.php

 

 

• Brainstorm with your partner in designing a "Prevent Bad Food Choices" brochure, that would help educate students in our school. This brochure should:
  • Define the components of a healthy diet.
  • Show the Food Rainbow as a complete visual aid for daily eating.
  • Detail the differences between a healthy diet and an unhealthy diet (including recommended servings size, food types with nutritional information).
  • Compare healthy and unhealthy foods in an effort to convince students to eat healthy foods.

• Brainstorm with your partner  in designing a "The Choice is Yours" poster that illustrates your recommended food choices for a breakfast, lunch, or dinner to be displayed throughout our school
  • Compare 2 different types of meals -- one nutritional and one not
  • Tie in your definition of a healthy diet and the Canada food guide in illustrating how their  selection should be a healthier choice.
  • Creativity counts, remember you are speaking to kids your age.

Evaluation

Your project will be assessed using the following rubric.

 

ITEM	EXCELLING(4)	ACHIEVING(3)	DEVELOPING(2)	EMERGING(1)
Basic Knowledge of Nutrition.	All quetions are answered completely and correctly in defining a healthy diet in relationship to the Canada Food guide and calorie needs.	All questions are answered completely and correctly.	Most questions are answered completely and correctly.	Information is inaccurate and incomplete. Little effort is shown in researching topics.
Basic knowledge of food components.	All questions are answered completely in defining assigned food component and its relationship to the effects on the body , the recommended daily amounts and importance in the diet.	All questions are answered completely and correctly.	Most questions are answered completely and correctly.	Information is inaccurate and incomplete. Little effort is shown in researching topics.
Preparation of Brochure	Brochure contains excellent examples of healthy foods and non-healthy foods. Makes excellent connection to body needs and food nutritional value. Comparison is extremely convincing.	Brochure contains good examples of healthy foods and non-healthy foods. Makes good connection to body needs and food nutritional value. Comparison is convincing.	Brochure contains few examples of healthy foods and non-healthy foods. Makes few connection to body needs and food nutritional value. Comparison is somewhat convincing.	Brochure is inadequately prepared and does not included components required.
Preparation of  posters.	Poster illustrates a complete comparison of a healthy and unhealthy meal. Message in poster is extremely convincing. Creativity is exceptional.	Posters illustrates a good comparison of a healthy and unhealthy meal. Message in poster is somewhat convincing. Creativity is good.	Poster illustrates  comparison of a healthy and unhealthy meal. Message in poster is not  convincing. Creativity is minimal.	Poster is inadequately prepared. Theme is not completely shown through posters. Little effort is shown.

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Conclusion

As a result of this webquest, you will have discovered the components of a healthy diet/ You should be aware of Canada's Food Guide and what types of food and quantities are needed for better nutrition. You should have a working knowledge of calorie needs for teens that coincide with healthy eating. You also learned how to analyze and modify eating habits regarding fast foods. Finally, you have promoted a healthy diet to peers and maybe made a difference in someone's life and health. Prevention of poor food choices is a life time process. Continue to evaluate your eating habits and work towards healthier living.

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