An apple a day keeps the doctor away!

Introduction

What do we need for a healthy life style? Are there healthy fast food options?

Task

To find out more about healthy food and a healthy life style, you will check out a couple of websites.

First, you will become an expert when it comes to healthy food.

As an expert, you will then create your own online cookbook.

You will be able to print out and share your favourite recipes in class.

Have fun!

Process

1.) Find out more about healthy food and a healthy life style.

   a.) Take time to check out the website: http://www.cyh.com/subdefault.aspx?p=255

• Chose the topic Your Food and find out more about: Fast food or Food- eating and sport.

• Write down in your own words about five things you have learned. Write a short essay of 15 sentences (you are welcome to write more, if you like).

  b.) For more information go to: http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/#cat20396

• Go to Food & Fitness Q&As and answer the following questions:

   Are there healthy fast-food options?

   Which foods will give me energy?

To answer these questions, you need to read or listen to the articles. Write a short essay.

Now you are an expert, when it comes to healthy food and fitness. Well done!

2.) Create your own cookbook

Are you ready to create your own online cookbook? Great!

• Please visit the following website: http://www.desktopcookbook.com

You will need to register for free membership. Once you are registered you can use the online forms to add text, recipes and pictures to your cookbook. Save the cookbook online as you create it.

For more detailed instructions follow the link:

http://klett-online.ch/openworld/content/link_dateien/pdf/w_131_1.pdf

Add five recipes to your cookbook from the internet and input two of your own recipes, translated from German to English.

In the end you will hand in a printed version of your cookbook and two essays.

Have fun!

Evaluation

Congratulations, now you are an expert for a healthy life style!

Raiting:

Task 1.a you can score 4 points.

Task 1.b you can score 2 points per question.

Task 2.) you can score 10 points.

Task achieved (3-4 points) not achieved (0-2 points)
1.a

Five (or more) facts about fast food, or food-eating and sports are described correctly in own words. At least 15 sentences are written.

 Less than five facts are described incorrectly. Less then 15 sentences are written, partly copied of the website.
1.b Both of the questions are answered correctly and written in own words. One of the questions (or both) are answered incorrectly. The answers are partly copied of the website.
2 5-10 points 0-5 points
2 The online cookbook is printed and there are at least seven different recipes available. At least two of the recipes are indicated as translated. Those recipes are translated comprehensible. The cover of the cookbook is appealing. The online cookbook is not printed or there are less than seven recipes available. It lacks of translated recipes or the translation is incomprehensible. The cover of the cookbook is not appealing or even missing.

   

You can score 18 points in total!

  

Conclusion

This webquest is based on the topic healthy food. The students are encouraged to find more information about
healthy food in the internet. They write down about the interesting subjects they have found, and what they have learned.

The end product is a self made cookbook, which might inspire the students to do more cooking.

I do hope, you have had fun during this webquest!

Hopefully your cookbook will become in handy!

Credits

Websites

Kids´s Health: http://www.cyh.com/subdefault.aspx?p=255

Food & Fitness: http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/#cat20396

create your own online cookbook: http://klett-online.ch/openworld/content/link_dateien/pdf/w_131_1.pdf

DesktopCookbook: http://www.desktopcookbook.com/default.asp

Lehrplan 21: http://vorlage.lehrplan.ch/index.php?nav=110|121&code=b|2|1&la=yes

Figures

Turinboy. Red apples: https://flic.kr/p/5pkYxK

sharyn morrow. Adam did the cooking, in my panda pan: https://flic.kr/p/4ox77q

Teacher Page

An apple a day...

 

Unit 7 of the Open World Workbook 1-8 is all about food and fitness. Students are encouraged to do a health check at the beginning and will learn a lot about healthy food, eating habits, fast food and sports.

Food and especially sports are important subjects for students. This is why the webquest uses this subjects to promote an online research. Students will read through many interesting articles and have to decide what to write about. The essays the students will produce could be seen as an efficiency statement for the teacher to check the level of progress.

It is important, that the subjects of class are related to the everiday life of the students. Therefore, in exercise 2.) students create their own online cookbook. Students have the opportunity to input everything they have learned about healthy food. Furthermore, students can share their own cookbook in class. Maybe those cookbooks could come in use on a school trip.

In Lehrplan 21 an aim is to enable students of writing different texts. In this webquest, students practise the writing of essays. Another aim of Lehrplan 21 is the skill of translating different texts of German (or Swiss German) language into English. Students will practice the translation of recipes.

In the end the teacher can create a circle in the classroom, where all the students present their own cookbooks. This will create an environment for speaking activities.