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Build A Better Meal A WebQuest for 6th Grade (Health) Designed by Jason Bjerkelund
Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits | Teacher Page Think about the last time you at ate at your
favorite fast food restaurant…mmm, tasty…now write down what you
had to eat (if you have never been to a fast food place, you will still
create a meal). Along with your meal, write down how
many calories you think the meal
was (remember a calorie is defined as a unit of heat that measures the energy
available in foods). Your mission today is to create one meal
from three different fast food restaurants, look at the nutritional values
and see how those compare to your own Recommended
Dietary Allowance (RDA) (remember to use your personalized chart from www.mypyramid.org or go there to get
your personalized RDA chart). After gathering that information, it
will be you job to create a meal from one of those three previous fast food
restaurants that is the healthiest
by using the nutrition guide provided by that restaurant. Students are to use
various websites from fast foods restaurants to create three meals that they
(or an average person) would eat. They will record calorie and calories from
fat information and record them on their data sheet. After they have created
and recorded three meals (one from each fast food restaurant) students will
then be asked to use the restaurants nutrition guides to create the
healthiest meal possible – including an entrée (main item), a
side, and a drink. After recording the new meal data, students will crate a
graph comparing all three of their original meals and the three new healthier
ones to how much an average male/female in their age bracket should use in a
day. Students will need a pen/pencil, a data
sheet, and access to a computer with
an internet connection to begin.
Sites to use: Burger King – http://www.bk.com/Food/Nutrition/NutritionWizard/index.aspx McDonald’s – http://app.mcdonalds.com/bagamcmeal Jack-in-the-Box – http://jackinthebox.com/ourfood/build.php Wendy’s – http://www.wendys.com/food/NutritionLanding.jsp Subway – http://www.subway.com/applications/NutritionInfo/INDEX Carl’s Jr. – http://www.carlsjr.com/nutrition/ Taco Burgerville – http://www.burgerville.com/html/pdf/nut_guide.pdf Record the data on your
data sheet. You need to make sure you have listed the type of main dish (a
burger or type of sandwich), a side dish (like fries or onion rings), and a
drink (could be a shake or soda pop). Next to each item write down their calories
and calories from fat. Total up the entire meal. Do this for each meal
(remember you need to make one meal
from three different fast food restaurants). Example: McDonald’s
Restaurant – Typical Meal
Calories
Food Item
Calories
from fat (g) Entrée:
Quarter Pounder w/ cheese 540
260(g) Side: Medium French Fries
350
150(g) Drink: Medium Coke
210
0(g)
TOTAL: 1,100
410(g)
Example: McDonald’s
Restaurant – Healthy Meal
Calories
Food Item
Calories
from fat (g) Entrée:
Healthier choice
xxx
xxx(g) Side: Healthier choice
xxx
xxx(g) Drink: Healthier choice
xxx
xxx(g)
TOTAL: XXXX
XXX(g)
Example:
Click the Microsoft Excel icon for
instructions on creating a graph or chart using Microsoft Excel (as used in
the example above)
• What do you notice about the
typical meal and the healthier meal? • How did you get one to be
healthier than the other? • What can you do when you eat at
fast food restaurants in the future that may help you eat healthier? • What did you learn from this
WebQuest? Write a reflection answering these
questions.
After finishing this WebQuest, you should be able to look at a
nutrition guide (or a meal builder) and figure out how to eat healthier when going
to fast food restaurants by looking at the total calories and calories from
fat that each meal (or food item has). You should also be able to see how
much of your RDA eating one fast food meal can take up if you are not making
healthy decisions. Web sites used: The WebQuest Page
– edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
for the template of this WebQuest and WebQuest information Burger King – www.bk.com McDonald’s –
www.mcdonalds.com Jack-in-the-box – www.jackinthebox.com Wendy’s – www.wendys.com Subway – www.subway.com Carl’s Jr. –
www.carlsjr.com Taco Burgerville – www.burgerville.com Clipart images used: www.school.discovery.com/clipart Further Information Book:
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (2002) Perennial Publishing Video: Super
Size Me (educational edition) Written and Directed by Morgan Spurlock Last updated on April 19th, 2006. Based on a template from The WebQuest Page |
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