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                                   A WebQuest for Nutrition and Food Science

   

Designed by Gayle Murdock

gmurdock@frionaisd.com

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INTRODUCTION

TASK

PROCESS

EVALUATION

 CONCLUSION

CREDITS

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

You are secret agent and nutritionist, Eaton Write. You are employed by the Federal Organization for Optimal Diets or FOOD. A  article  in Nutrition Magazine stated that Fast Foods are high in calories, fats, sodium and sugar. It recently came to the attention of  the organization that a large number of American high school and college students are eating most of their meals at fast food restaurants. Your goal is to show that you can eat healthy at a fast food restaurant.

 

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TASK              

Good Morning, Eaton Write.  Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to prove that a teenager can eat healthy at fast food restaurants. Your team will include the healthy body calculator and a variety of fast food restaurants. You will then eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, each at a different fast food restaurants. You will prepare a poster that illustrates the meals you selected and the amount of fat, calories, and sodium present in each one. Your mission is to see if you can stay within the daily food requirements for a teenager. As always if your mission is not successful the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your mission.

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PROCESS

 

The following steps will assist you in completing your mission.

1. Determine your height and weight using the scale available in the room.

2. Go to the  Dietitian site-click on the healthy body calculator.

  1. Fill in the form using the following information
    • make sure that US is marked 
    • enter the age as 18 (even if you are not)
    • enter appropriate gender
    • make sure no is entered on amputee
    • go to second page
    • activity level
      1. enter in whole hours or decimals
      2. must equal 24 hours
      3. use decimals for portions of an hour
      4. approximate the number of hours you sleep
      5. very light (classrooms, watching television, car)
      6. light (band, PE, walking)
      7. moderate (after school activities such as tennis, golf, etc)
      8. heavy (football, basketball, running)
    • weight goal-maintain weight
    • change the calorie distribution to
      1. fat-30%
      2. protein-15%
      3. carbohydrate-55%
    • use the tape measure and follow the instructions to measure your Body Frame and then mark the appropriate measurement
    • leave the waist to hip measurement blank
  2. Fill in the sheet with your Basal Metabolism Rate (BMR) information

3. From the BMR worksheet determine how many calories, how many grams of fat and how many milligrams of sodium a teenager needs.

4. Go to one of the following sites and make your breakfast selections. Write down  where you ate, what foods you selected and the calories, grams of fat, and milligrams of sodium it contains.

  1. McDonalds
  2. Burger King
  3. Taco Bell
  4. Dunkin Donuts
  5. Hardees
  6. Arby's
  7. Jack in the Box

5. Go to one of the following sites and make your lunch selections. Remember you may go to a restaurant only once. Write down  where you ate, what foods you selected and the calories, grams of fat, and milligrams of sodium it contains.

  1. Wendy's
  2. Chick-fil-A
  3. Subway
  4. Schlotzsky's
  5. Pizza Hut
  6. Taco Bell
  7. Burger King
  8. McDonalds
  9. Arby's
  10. Hardees
  11. Jack in the Box
  12. Kentucky Fried Chicken
  13. Long John Silvers

6. Go to one of the following sites and make you dinner selections. Remember you may go to a place only once. Write down  where you ate, what foods you selected and the calories, grams of fat, and milligrams of sodium it contains.

  1. Wendy's
  2. Chick-fil-A
  3. Subway
  4. Scholotzsky's
  5. Pizza Hut
  6. Taco Bell
  7. Burger King
  8. McDonalds
  9. Arby's
  10. Hardees
  11. Jack in the Box
  12. Kentucky Fried Chicken
  13. Long John Silvers

7. Double check your figures and make sure you are within your daily dietary needs. It may be necessary to go back and adjust what you are.

8. Design a Poster that contains the following information-be sure to be neat, organized and colorful

  • Breakfast
    • where you ate
    • what you ate
    • the amount of calories, fats, and sodium in each food
  • Lunch
    • where you ate
    • what you ate
    • the amount of calories, fats, and sodium in each food
  • Dinner
    • where you ate
    • what you ate
    • the amount of calories, fats, and sodium in each food
  • Chart
    • either a pie chart or a bar graph that shows  much of your daily calories came from each meal
    • either a pie chart or a bar graph that shows much of your daily fat grams came from each meal
    • either a pie chart or a bar graph that shows much of your daily sodium came from each meal
  • Pictures from magazines or graphics (does not have to be a picture of exact foods-example-it does not have to be a McDonalds Hamburger)

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EVALUATION

Your Project will be graded based on the following:

Basal Metabolism Rate Form                               20 Points

Breakfast                                                             10 Points

Lunch                                                                  10 Points

Dinner                                                                 10  Points

Poster-

Breakfast                                                   10 Points

Lunch                                                        10 Points

Dinner                                                       10 Points

Graphs                                                       20 Points

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CONCLUSION

 

At the conclusion of your Mission you will have proved that it is possible to eat healthy at a fast food restaurant.

 

 

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CREDITS

Clips A Hoy

Media Builders

Microsoft Clip Gallery

Matty G's Theme Music


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