Introduction
You are a medical writer researching health information. You will go to the various websites that are provided with instructions that take you all over
the web, watching videos and doing activities with nutrition facts. The ending product
will be a nutrition pamphlet that you will make that will be handed out a
local doctor’s office. The pamphlet will be graded by a rubric.
Good Luck!
Task
As you gain knowledge of nutrition you will transform all the facts you have obtained into a creative pamphlet using Word to inform your readers what nutrition is and why it is important.
Process
The first step: Watch the video on digestion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKaBQrFdNtw. How could you effectively inform someone on the process your body goes through during digestion?
The second step: Vistit the website http://kidshealth.org/kid/nutrition/recipes/garden_lunches.html?tracking=K_RelatedArticle#cat119 and read the article staying healthy. list five ways that you would reccomend to help stay healthy.
The third step: http://www.nourishinteractive.com/nutrition-education-printables/585-estimate-portion-size-food-groups-kids-information-household-items this link has the matching myplate game, play the game. Can you use the my plate diagram to list the five compnents of a healthy plate?
Use the healthy plate diagram to list food that would fall under each category.
The forth step: the construction of your pamphlet. use the website and sources to answer the questions listed above. Take your answers and include them in a pamphlet using word processor and the pamplet layouts. Be crative. You will distibute your pamplet in your local doctors office.
Evaluation
| CATEGORY | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Graphics/Pictures | Graphics go well with the text and there is a good mix of text and graphics. | Graphics go well with the text, but there are so many that they distract from the text. | Graphics go well with the text, but there are too few and the brochure seems \"text-heavy\". | Graphics do not go with the accompanying text or appear to be randomly chosen. |
| Knowledge Gained | All students in the group can accurately answer all questions related to facts in the brochure and to technical processes used to create the brochure. | All students in the group can accurately answer most questions related to facts in the brochure and to technical processes used to create the brochure. | Most students in the group can accurately answer most questions related to facts in the brochure and to technical processes used to create the brochure. | Several students in the group appear to have little knowledge about the facts or technical processes used in the brochure. |
| Writing - Organization | Each section in the brochure has a clear beginning, middle, and end. | Almost all sections of the brochure have a clear beginning, middle and end. | Most sections of the brochure have a clear beginning, middle and end. | Less than half of the sections of the brochure have a clear beginning, middle and end. |
Conclusion
Today you have completed your first webquest congratulations! You will print these pamplets off and we will, as a class, distribute them to the community. During this quest you have learned about nutrition and healthy eating. After your research, will you improve your nutrition? Will you convince others to become more nutritious?
Credits
Thanks to the sources that provided the students with games, videos, and articles that aided in their pamplets. These sites were listed in the process and steps section. Also thanks to rubistar.com for the layout of the grading rubric.