Introduction
" Every time you eat it's an opportunity to nourish your body"
Welcome to your journey that will guide you to a healthier lifestyle. Do you want to feel better? Do you want to start to eating healthier? Do you know what foods you need to eat? This Web Quest will teach you about nutrition and how to eat healthier. You will be able to use the information you learn in your everyday lives and help your family and friends make healthier choices as well. I know most of us want to be healthy and feel good but don't know where to start or how to do it. This Web Quest will get you started and teach you how to start eating healthier and feeling better. Let's get started!
Task
In this journey you will learn about nutrition and how to make healthy food choices. You will visit websites that will inform you about why it's important to eat healthy and what foods you need to eat.
Along the way you will complete a few assignments. You will create a video and a healthy meal plan for one week, which includes three meals and two snacks a day for seven days. You will be creating the meal plan for yourself, so you'll take into consideration your age, weight, food tastes, any allergies, etc. Then you can use this meal plan in your real life afterwards! Or share it with your friends and family, you’ll have some great ideas to move forward with to start making healthier food choices in the future and feel better!
Process
Here are the steps you need to take on your nutrition journey. Enjoy!
Step 1: Read some background information on nutrition and why it's important to eat healthy:
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Why is it important to eat healthy? - https://www.who.int/initiatives/behealthy/healthy-diet
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Take charge of your health guide - https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/weight-management/take-charge-health-guide-teenagers
Step 2: What's in my food? Check out the links below to find out how many calories, fat, etc. are in certain foods:
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What are empty calories? - https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/empty-calories
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Chart of food indicating how many empty calories - https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/empty-calories
ASSIGNMENT1
Post a table of contents on some of your favorite foods you currently eat and how many calories, fat and saturated fat they contain on google classroom. .
Step 3: Read the following links and watch the video about how to make healthy meal choices:
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Tips for planning a healthy diet - https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/eight-tips-for-healthy-eating/
ASSIGNMENT 2
Create a video of yourself making a healthy meal. Have fun with this and be creative! Please upload it to YouTube and paste the link on Google classroom.
Step 4: How much and what foods should I be eating?
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Food intake suggestions - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet
ASSIGNMENT 3
Create a healthy meal plan for one week, which includes three meals and two snacks a day for seven days. You will be creating the meal plan for yourself; take into consideration your age, weight, any food allergies, etc. You don't need to keep track of the exact amount of calories per day, but just keep in mind about how many calories you should be consuming and try to stay in that range. Create your meal plan in a word document or spreadsheet and submit it.
Evaluation
You will be evaluated based on the following rubric:
| Category | Excellent | Very good | Good | Fair | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spelling and Punctuation | One or fewer errors in spelling and punctuation in the assignment (9-10) | Two or three errors in spelling and punctuation in the assignment (7-8) | Four or five errors in spelling and punctuation in the assignment (5-6) | More than five errors in spelling and punctuation in the assignment (<5) | 10 |
| Participation |
Actively participated (14-15) |
Moderately participated (12-13) | Slightly participated (10-12) | Less participation (<10) | 15 |
| Assignment 1 (table of content ) | Contain all the elements (24-25) | Contain most of the elements (20-23) |
Contain less elements (15-20) |
Very poor elements (<10) | 25 |
| Assignment 2 (video) | Video assignment was completed, great quality, followed guidelines, used creativity. (24-25) | Video assignment completed, quality was okay, somewhat creative (20-23) | Video assignment completed but poor quality, not creative. (15-20) | Video assignment not completed (<10) | 25 |
| Assignment 3 (word file or spreadsheet) | Well executed and completed meal plan (24-25) | Some what okay and completed meal plan (20-23) | Very poor organized meal plan. (15-20) | Assignment was not completed (<10) | 25 |
| TOTAL | 100 |
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Conclusion
Congratulations! By completing this Web Quest you have learned the value of healthy eating. Great job creating your healthy meal plans! I hope you enjoyed your journey and you'll be able to take the information you learned with you and apply it in your everyday lives. You should be able to use the meal plan you've created and integrate it at home. Would your family be open to trying some of these new meals you've designed? This may be a good opportunity to get everyone in your family to cook together as well as spend some time together making and eating healthy meals. By making these healthy choices you'll reward yourself by feeling better and most likely look better as well!
Credits
The following websites were referenced in this Web Quest:
- https://www.who.int/initiatives/behealthy/healthy-diet
- https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/weight-management/take-charge-health-guide-teenagers
- https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/empty-calories
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/empty-calories
- https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/eight-tips-for-healthy-eating/
- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bREPaPWc2zI&t=201s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmh_xMMJ2Pw&t=11s
Teacher Page
NATIONAL HEALTH EDUCATION STANDARDS
Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
Standard 2: Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.
Standard 3: Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.
Standard 4: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
Standard 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
Standard 6: Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.
Standard 7: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
Standard 8: Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.