A Webquest For 6th Grade Nutrition Students

A Webquest For 6th Grade Nutrition Students

Created by Haleigh Herbert, RJ Barrett, and Trisha Winebrinner for FCCLA Star Events

Under Supervision of Gayle Murdock, Advisor

	Introduction	Task	Process
	Evaluation	Conclusion	Credits

INTRODUCTION

Do you want to be in the groove? Do you want to be a hip 6th grader? One way to do this is to have good nutrition and sufficient exercise.

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TASK

You will be learning how to have awesome nutrition by going to a website to learn about the exercise pyramid and the food pyramid. then you will draw these two pyramids on poster board. To complete this activity you will write what food you ate and what exercise you did in the correct pyramids in a 24 hour period.

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PROCESS

1.Go to www.kidshealth.org to learn about the food pyramid. Click on Enter teens. Then click on the Fabulous food guide pyramids. Go through all the different food groups.

Bread, Cereals, Grains

Vegetables

Fruits

Meat, Poultry, Fish

Dairy

Fats, Sweets, Oils

2. Go to www.eatright.org to learn about the exercise pyramid. Read it and understand how the pyramid works.

3. Do the Handout on the Food Pyramid. You are going to be writing down what foods you eat for three days and then check what food group it goes it by putting a check in the correct box.

4.Do the Handout on the Exercise Pyramid. You are going to write down the exercises you have done in a weeks time.

5. Now you are ready to make a poster of the two pyramids. Draw the food pyramid on one side of the poster and the exercise pyramid on the other. Label the pyramids with their correct title and label each section of the pyramid with their correct section.

6. Refer to your food pyramid handout and decide what day is most typical for you for the three days. Fill in the foods on the food pyramid you have created on the poster board.

7. Fill in your exercise pyramid with the exercises you have wrote down on your handout for a weeks time. Put it in the correct section of the pyramid.

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EVALUATION

Making A Poster: Get in the Groove!

Teacher name: Ms. Murdock

Student Name ___________________

CATEGORY	Excellent	Good	Satisfactory	Needs Improvement
Use of Class Time	Used time well during each class period.	Usually used time well during each class period.	Used some of the time well during each class period.	Did not use class time to focus on the project.
Labels	All items of importance on the poster are clearly labeled.	Almost all items of importance on the poster are clearly labeled.	Several items of importance on the poster are clearly labeled.	Labels are not important items were labeled.
Title	Title can be read and is quite creative.	Title can be read and describes content well.	Title is messy and needs work on creativity.	The title is too small and/or does not describe the content of the poster well.
Content - Accuracy	All foods are in the correct groups.	Most foods are in the correct groups.	Some of the foods are in the correct groups.	Almost none of the foods are in the correct groups.

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CONCLUSION

Awesome! You know a groovy way to eat properly and stay in shape. Now you can be a totally cool and rad 6th grader!

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CREDITS

www.3dtextmaker.com
www.kidshealth.org
www.eatright.org
www.mediabuilder.com
http://home.att.net/~scorh2/Graphics2.html
www.lockley.net/webbars2.shtml
http://rubistar.4teachers.org

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