CAFETERIA STRIKE!!!!

A WebQuest for the 5^th grade (HEALTH)

MINDY MOORE HODGE

JW MILES ELEMENTARY

This lesson will be completed in one 3 hour block!

mhodge@erlanger.k12.ky.us

Introduction

How many times have you complained about the cafeteria’s food? Now is your chance to have a say in what is served. The cafeteria workers have gone on strike. Your group is now in charge of planning the menu for the week. Don’t get too excited, there is going to be some work involved in your planning.

Every lunch meal that you plan must be 500 or less calories! Another problem is that you are not allowed to cook so you must order the food in from different fast food restaurants.

Task

As a group you must do the following:

work together cooperatively and equally

follow the daily schedule for which restaurant you will order

produce a five day lunch menu that is under 500 calories daily

write your lunch menu up on a chart paper and list the calories for each choice

after completing the menu use your food pyramid chart to figure out what foods and how many serving of each you must still eat each day

share your findings with the class

journal entry on how often you feel you eat within the food pyramid guidelines

Process

Each of you has been assigned to a group of 5 students, numbered 1-5.

1. You are in charge of Monday Pizza Hut

2. You are in charge of Tuesday Subway

3. You are in charge of Wednesday McDonald’s

4. You are in charge of Thursday Kentucky Fried Chicken

5. You are in charge of Friday Papa John’s

Use the following websites to help you find useful information about the menu items at these restaurants:

http://www.olen.com/food/book.html

http://www.sfsu.edu/~shs/dpm/fast.htm

http://ivillage.com/diet/experts/askdiet/articles/0,5050,2211776_220084,00.html

http://www.kenkuhl.com/fastfood/

**All of these sites contain information about the menu choices and calories. You should be able to do each day, keep trying all of the sites and mixing the choices up!

Now that you have made your menu you need to display it on chart paper. Use markers and make it colorful. After you have completed your menu you are ready to use the food pyramid guide. Use your personal food pyramid and see what foods (and how many servings of each) you will still need to eat on your assigned day to be within the guidelines. Add this information to the chart. Were you surprised? Now you are ready to do a journal entry. It needs to be at least one page long. Write about how often you think you eat within the guidelines of the food pyramid? What things make it easy and hard to do so? Were the choices you made for the menu the ones that you would have made if you ate at the restaurant? Why or why not?

Final activity, share the posters and information with the class.

Evaluation

Each student will receive an individual grade!!!!

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Worked cooperatively	Had trouble getting a long with their group.	Had a few problems working with their group.	For the most part got along with their group.	Worked cooperatively in their group assigned group.
Worked on the assigned day given to them	Did not work on assigned food day.	Tried to work on another food day.	For the most part worked on the correct food day.	Worked on the assigned menu day and stayed focused on their part of the menu.
Produced a group menu under 500 calories a day	The menu items chosen were not all 500 calories or less each day.	2 or more menu items were not 500 calories or less.	1 or more menu items were not 500 calories or less.	All menu items were 500 calories or less.
Made a poster	3 or more required elements were missing from the poster.	2 of the required elements were missing from the poster.	1 of the required elements was missing from the poster.	All of the required elements were included.
Used the food pyramid guidelines to see what was missing daily	Did not figure out correctly what was missing from the food pyramid 3 or more days.	Did not figure out correctly what was missing from the food pyramid 2 days.	Did not figure out correctly what was missing from the food pyramid on 1 of the days.	Figured out correctly what was missing from the food pyramid each day.
Shared finding with the class	Did not share information with the class.	Did not actively participate in sharing findings with the class.	Participated pretty well but could have shared a little bit more insight with the class.	Excellent job sharing findings with the class.
One page journal	Journal entry was less than one page.	Journal entry was at least one page long but did not fully answer 2 or more parts of the questions.	Journal entry was at least one page long but did not fully answer 1 part of the questions.	Journal entry was at least one page long and answered completely all of the questions.

Conclusion

I hope you have learned how to improve your eating styles today. Hopefully the next time you are getting fast food you will think about the amount of calories in the food items you are choosing and go with one of the lighter choices we learned about today. Also, I hope that you will try to use the food pyramid guidelines in your every day lives and try to find ways to get all of the food groups in everyday. Another thing that I helped this lesson helped you to see are all of the resources that are available to you on the internet! You can research and find out a great deal of information.

Credits & References

Food Guide Pyramid:

http://www.nal.usda.gov:8001/py/pmap.htm

http://www.kidsfood.org/f_pyramid/pyramid.html

Other useful websites that I used:

http://www.5aday.com/

http://www.dole5aday.com

Corbin, C.B. (2001). Concepts of Fitness and Wellness. Boston, MA: McGraw Hill.

Additional Books to Use:

A Book of Fruit

By Barbara Hirschlember

New York: Ticknor & Fields Books for Young Readers, 1994

Belly Laughs

By Charles Keller

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1990

The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Everyday

By Loreen Leedy

New York: Holiday House, 1994

Vegetables

By Susan Wake & John Yates

Carolrhoda Books, Inc, 1990

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