Healthy Eating

Introduction

                                 

Nowadays, children do not care too much about what they eat. They prefer to eat fast foods and some snacks rather than eating vegetables and fruits or some nutritious foods. However, it is important to eat healthy foods for a healthy body. Your duty is to prepare a poster to raise the students’ awareness about the importance of healthy eating. 

Task

The main purpose of this activity is to help you learn more about the importance of eating healthy foods. You will prepare a poster to raise your friends' awareness about this topic. 

To create your poster, you will;

1. revise some foods,

2. watch a video about healthy eating,

3. learn about the nutrients and their functions,

4. prepare a balanced diet,

 

Lastly, you will prepare a poster and share your findings with your friends.

 

Have Fun!

 

Process

  • Task 1: Revising Some Foods

Use the link below to revise some vocabulary by downloading the activity sheet. You will work individually. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d6sg7l5axp2472u/matching%20activity.docx 

  • Task 2: Functions of Nutrients -Video

Watch the video and answer the questions in the handout. You can also download your handout from the following link. You will work in pairs, but each of you should have a handout. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1sh_XGKJ-Q

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fs5nl3hxt1k6ab0/handout.doc

  • Task 2a: Use your answers in the video handout and the link below to fill the chart about the functions of the nutrients in the foods you revised.

http://www.healthcheck.org/page/function-nutrients 

  • Task 3: A Balanced Diet

Learn about the nutrients we need to take in a day. Keep a record of your daily diet. You can find out what the words "portion" and "diet" mean with the help of the link below. You will work individually. 

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

  • You can learn about what a healthy balanced diet means in more detail from the following link.

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/1127.aspx?CategoryID=51&SubCategoryID=166

You will compare your daily diet with your friends to see who is the one eating more healthy foods.

  • Task 4: Your Healthy Balanced Diet

Prepare your own healthy balanced diet by filling the chart in your handout. You will work with your pairs. 

  • Alternative Assessment Task 

Prepare a poster to present your friends. Your poster should contain some information you have learned from the tasks you completed. You should also add at least three photos or you can draw some pictures. You will state why it is important to eat healthy foods and you will share the healthy balanced diet you prepared with your friends.

Be careful about the grammar and spelling mistakes. 

Evaluation

CATEGORY

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Required Elements

The poster includes information gained as well as additional information and at least three pictures.

Almost all information and less than three pictures are included on the poster.

Some information and less than three pictures are included on the poster.

So much information was missing and there are less than three pictures.

Knowledge Gained

Student can accurately answer all questions related to information in the poster and processes used to create the poster.

Student can accurately answer most questions related to information in the poster and processes used to create the poster.

Student can accurately answer about 75% of questions related to information in the poster and processes used to create the poster.

Student appears to have insufficient knowledge about the information or processes used in the poster.

Attractiveness

The poster is exceptionally attractive in terms of design, layout, and neatness.

The poster is attractive in terms of design, layout and neatness.

The poster is acceptably attractive though it may be a bit messy.

The poster is distractingly messy or very poorly designed. It is not attractive.

Grammar and Spelling

There are no grammatical and spelling mistakes on the poster.

There is 1 grammatical and/or spelling mistake on the poster.

There are 2 grammatical and/or spelling mistakes on the poster.

There are more than 2 grammatical and/or spelling mistakes on the poster.

Use the link below to download the rubric. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sm2jz8i3pi2wx4/rubric.docx 

Conclusion

The students gained more information about an important topic which is healthy eating. Students worked both individually and in pairs. This way, they had a chance to work on their own to do research and practice group-work skills like collaboration and division of work. 

They also practiced presentation skills by preparing a poster and presenting it in front of the class. Presentation was a good way for the students to practice speaking skills. It was also good for the teacher to see the students' improvement. 

Credits

                    

I want to thank Hale Kızılcık for providing us this opportunity to create our own WebQuest. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1sh_XGKJ-Q

http://www.healthcheck.org/page/function-nutrients 

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/1127.aspx?CategoryID=51&SubCategoryID=166

http://nmolp.iwm.org.uk/webquests/webquest.php?webquest_id=5&partner_id… 

Teacher Page

Student Profile: There are 20 students in the class. They are 5th grade students and their proficiency level is A2. They are studying at ODTÜ Geliştirme Vakfı Okulları. They are learning English as a foreign language. They have four English lessons per week. 

This webquest is designed to raise the students' awareness about healthy eating for an EFL classroom. However, it can be also used in other subjects such as biology with some changes, because the topic is also closely related to nutrients.

All students need to have an access to the internet since this webquest contains a lot of links to some internet sites. It will take 4 sessions to complete this webquest with the presentations, but it can be given as a term project for English course. 

This WebQuest will contribute to students since they will have a chance to,

  • recycle some vocabulary items related to foods,
  • be aware of the importance of healthy eating and make their friends aware,
  • they will prepare a healthy diet to follow it,
  • practice reading, listening and speaking skills with various tasks.