A Healthy
Restaurant?
Radical!
A WebQuest
for 1st and 2nd Grades
By Melissa Wyatt
Mildred Dean Elementary –
Introduction | Task | Process | Resources | Evaluation | Conclusion | Questions and Comments
How many times each week do you eat at a restaurant? If you are like most people, you probably eat
out often. Guess what? Many of the foods we eat in fast food
restaurants are NOT healthy foods. They
are full of bad things like fat and sodium and they don’t help us grow to be
our best. You want to grow up to be
healthy and strong, right? Then you need
to eat the right foods.
Click on the hamburger to find out the nutrition values in fast
foods. Find some of the foods that you
have eaten at your favorite restaurants.
What the world needs is more restaurants that serve healthy and
delicious foods! That’s where you come
in. You, and two other people, are going
to be world class chefs who design healthy meals for your own restaurant. People will love to eat at your restaurant,
you might make lots of money, and your meals will make the world a healthier
place! How exciting!
1.
Use the chart below to learn about the food guide pyramid and
healthy foods. Find out what types of
foods are in the different sections of the food guide pyramid. Notice how many servings of each type we need
to eat each day.
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Click on the
Food Guide Pyramid to learn more about it.
What kinds of food are in each section? |
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Click on the
salad to find out tons of information about how to stay healthy and be
safe. There is more information about
the Food Guide Pyramid too. Can you find
it? |
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Click on the
bear to be part of the “Kid’s Food Cyber Club.” You’ll learn even more and have fun doing
it! |
2.
Click on the pyramid below and print
out the Food Guide Pyramid for Young Children. Use it to do step 4. (You can color it if you want to!)
3.
With the two other chefs from your restaurant, cut out construction
paper pieces to show the different types of foods and how many servings we
should eat a day. The pieces don’t have
to be big. Make them about the size of a
quarter. You only need one set for the
three of you. Use this chart to help
you.
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6 brown ovals = 6
servings of the grain group
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3 green rectangles = 3
servings of the vegetable group
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2 red circles = 2
servings of the fruit group
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2 yellow squares = 2
servings of the milk group
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2 black diamonds = 2
servings of the meat group
- 1 pink star = 1 serving (or less) of the fats & sweets group
4.
Now you are ready to make a menu page for the restaurant! On your menu page, you need to include
breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Use your food
guide pyramid page and the paper pieces to make sure you include enough daily
servings from each food group. Draw each
meal on a plate and then list the foods next to the drawing. THINGS TO REMEMBER: This is a healthy restaurant! You need to draw healthy foods! And, please share the paper pieces.
5.
Match the paper pieces to the foods on your pictures. Did you use all of them? If not, you did not include all of the daily
servings for each food group. Keep
trying.
6.
When your meals are complete, write prices next to each meal. You are the chef so you get to decide how
much people should pay for your delicious food.
Don’t make the prices too high or you won’t have any customers!
7.
Staple your menu page together with the menu pages from the other two
chefs from your restaurant. Put a cover
page on the front and help each other decorate it. Agree on a name for your restaurant and write
it on the front cover of the menu.
8.
Share your menu with other students in your class. You could even have them pretend to be
customers in your restaurant and you could wait on them!
Sites used above:
http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/KidsPyra/KIDPYRbw.pdf
http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/Pubs/Pyramid/fdgdpyr1.pdf
http://www.kidfood.org/kf_cyber.html
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/
Other fun sites
about nutrition:
http://www.dltk-kids.com/nutrition/wtvcoloring.html
http://www.exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition
Other webquests about nutrition:
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/webquest2000/student/ssmippolito/home.html
http://www.sesd.sk.ca/teacherresource/webquest/elemhealthpe.htm
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Good |
Better |
Best |
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Balanced Meals |
I created three
meals for my menu but I didn’t include the daily servings for each food group. |
I created three
meals for my menu and I included all of the daily servings for each food
group. |
I created three
meals for my menu and I included all of the daily servings for each food
group. Most of my foods were HEALTHY
FOODS. |
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Used the Internet
Sites |
I used the
internet sites to learn more about nutrition and the food guide pyramid. |
I used the
internet sites to learn many things about nutrition and the food guide
pyramid that I didn’t know before. Now
I can explain the food guide pyramid to someone else. |
I used the
internet sites to learn A LOT about nutrition and the food guide pyramid that
I didn’t know before. Now I can write
or draw foods in each of the pyramid sections. |
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Worked With
Others |
The people in my
group did their work but didn’t really help each other. |
The people in
my group did their work and sometimes helped each other. |
The people in
my group did their work and helped each other. We gave each other ideas and shared the
paper pieces nicely. |
Good work! To be a world
class chef, you had to learn about nutrition and the food guide pyramid. The meals you created for your restaurant
will help people stay healthy and happy.
You might even become famous!
(Some chefs do.)
Now, think about how the information you learned can help you in
your everyday life. Will you think more
about the foods that you eat? What can
you do to make sure that you are eating foods from all of the food groups? How do you think eating healthy foods can
change your life? It really does make a
difference, just try it!
Teachers,
Feel free to e-mail me at mwyatt@newport.k12.ky.us