This webquest is about healthy food. Designed by Malena Fraga
It is designed for learners between the ages of 9-12 years old.
It would take students two lessons to complete it.
Introduction
Difference between Healthy and Unhealthy Foods
Everyone wants to eat delicious food and enjoy the taste of life. Apart of enjoying the food, individual forgot to focus on the quality of meal. There are multiple differences between healthy and unhealthy foods through which you can easily decide what to choose for eating.
Healthy Foods. It is referred as the food which is beneficial for health in terms of nutrition and it also fits your body. Healthy food may be considered as organic food (pure from chemicals), whole foods and natural food etc.
Unhealthy Foods. The best way to describe the unhealthy food is the less nutritional food containing high amount of calories, fat and sugar. This type of food is high in protein although body needs protein but in a particular amount.
We can spot the differences between healthy and unhealthy foods thanks to the following characteristics:
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Healthy Foods
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Unhealthy Foods
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Healthy Food vs. Unhealthy Food
Examples of Foods: Healthy food is rich of energy such as fresh fruits and vegetables, leafy greens, raw nuts, sprout, yogurt and honey etc. While unhealthy food are white bread, pastas, hot-dogs, chicken roast,chips, chocolate etc
Health Effects: By consuming healthy foods fatigue, depression, headache, joint pains, lungs problem could be resolved while unhealthy food welcomes the cardio vascular diseases (CVD), obesity, diabetes and also other chronic diseases.
Task
The class will be divided into groups of two students. In each group there will be two students playing different parts.
- The first student will play the role of a nutritionist.
A nutritionist is a person who advises on matters of food and nutrition impactson health
- The second student will play the role of a dietitian.
Dietitians are experts in food and nutrition. They advise people on what toeat in order to lead a healthy lifestyle or achieve a specific health-relatedgoal.
Process
* The nutritionist will have to provide a list of healthy food and junk food.
He can visit those links and do more research on nutrition.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=9522
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/junk-food-facts
http://www.nutritioncrashcourse.com/health-foods.html
*The dietitian will have to provide balanced meal for a weak. Each meal should have the appropriate amounts of all essential nutrients and an adequate amount of water.
He can consult the nutritionist to make the suggested meal and also he can view the following links below :
http://caloriecount.about.com/article/what_is_a_balanced_diet
http://www.homehealth-uk.com/medical/healthybalanceddiet.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/treatments/healthy_living/nutrition/healthy_balance.shtml
Evaluation
You will be evaluated upon the following standards in rubric below:
Rubric
| # | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Score |
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| Nutritionist | Irrelevant Ideas | Lack of information | Good ideas but missing the resourses | Excellent ideas provided with meaningful resources | |
| Dietitian | The diet includes junk food | Not a balanced diet | A good balanced meal but with few choices | An excellent balanced meal with lots of choices | |
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Conclusion
Congratulations, by now you learned about healthy food and how to make a balanced meal that consists of all essential elements that your body needs. You learned that even junk food looks attractive and delicious, it is harmful and will cause serious health problems.
For more information here are some useful links that you might come in handy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWUq9PUYYLw
https://healthy-kids.com.au/category/25/what-is-a-balanced-diet