Introduction
The nutritional value of school lunches has gotten worse and worse over the past few years. Children often spend their lunch time eating only cookies, candy bars, or potato chips. These unhealthy lunches are causing American children to become unfit, poorly nourished, and easily tired. Your job today is to work with a team of others to create a school lunch menu consisting of 3 nutritious meals.
After we all have a general knowledge of a nutritious diet, the food pyramid, and number of servings from each a day, we will divide into groups to take a closer look and apply the information. Based on what you have learned you will create a menu filled with healthy foods that everyone will enjoy!
Task
Your task is to investigate several aspects of a nutritious school lunch and create a menu that everyone will enjoy. These menus will be shared with the class and proposed for actual use by the school cafeteria by creating a google slides presentation.
Process
Day 1:
You will be put into groups of 3. Each group member will be resopnsible for creating one healthy meal for the school lunch menu. It should also contain all 5 food groups. On day one you will first refresh your understanding of My Plate and what it means. Go to the following website: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/fodd-groups/ and spend about 5 minutes looking at the items in each of the food groups.be using the following websites to research healthy recipe ideas for you menu.
Then, go to the Blast Off game and play the game to see if you can properly fuel the body for the day.
Finally, begin searching websites for healthy recipes for your meal. Remember to write down the name of the recipe as well as the ingredients so you can add them to your final presentation. Before you decide to add a recipe to your menu ask yourself: Does it have fruits or vegetables, does it have a lot of sugar, could I find a healthier choice? You need to decide on one meal for your part of the menu.
Recipe seach sites:
Day 2:
Get into your groups. One person should create a new presentation and share it to the other 2 members.
Then, working together create the presentation. Each presentaion should inclue a title page, 1 page for each menu day, and one page for each days ingredients.
Each member should check the final presentation for grammar and spelling errors. ONLY THEN SHOULD IMAGES BE ADDED.
Day 3: Your group will share their presentation to the assignemnt in Google classroom. Then, they will present their presentation with each member talking about the part of the menu they were responsible for creating. Finally, Ms. Robare will share the presentations with the school district food and nutrition supervisor
Evaluation
30 total points possible
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Criteria |
4 - Advanced |
3 - Proficient |
2 - Progressing |
1 – Non Proficient |
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Organization |
Information is organized in a clear, logical way. It is easy to anticipate the type of material that might be on the next slide. |
Most information is organized in a clear, logical way. One slide or item of information seems out of place. |
Some information is logically sequenced. An occasional slide or item of information seems out of place. |
There is no clear plan for the organization of information. |
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Graphics |
All graphics are attractive (size and colors) and support the theme/content of the presentation. |
A few graphics are not attractive but all support the theme/content of the presentation. |
All graphics are attractive but a few do not seem to support the theme/content of the presentation. |
Several graphics are unattractive AND detract from the content of the presentation. |
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Background |
Background does not distract from text or other graphics. Choice of background is consistent from card to card and is appropriate for the topic. |
Background does not distract from text or other graphics. Choice of background is consistent from card to card. |
Background does not distract from text or other graphics. |
Background makes it difficult to see text or competes with other graphics on the page. |
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Presentation has no misspellings or grammatical errors. |
Presentation has a few minor errors but doesn’t distract from presentation. |
Presentation has frequent grammatical, and begins to distract from presentation. |
Presentation has constant errors and are distracting from presentation. |
Conclusion
Way to go, you have learned how to look up healthy recipes for yourself and your friends.
We are going to share our presentations to our district food and nutrition supervisor. We will also explain to her that we have been learning about healthy eating and wanted to share our lunch menus with her as an idea for future lunch room menus.
- For more information about healthy earing visit: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
-For more food and nutrition games visit: http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids.php