There are three basic parts to the web quest:

Students spend a week evaluating their own eating habits by keeping track of what they have eaten at every meal for a week and about how much they have eaten

Students are placed in groups where they organize themselves into the various experts and begin their assigned tasks.

Finally the students work together to present their version of the information gathered in their quest to then produce their slide show.

The quest should take about two weeks to complete. The first week should not take any class time as the students are simply filling out their log of what they are eating for the week.

Actual class time should be around 5 class periods depending upon availability of computers. You would need two class periods to work on the research two class periods to work on the slide show and one or two for presentations.

Evaluate your own eating habits for one week and keep of log of what you ate at each meal. If you did not eat anything at the meal indicate this. Also list all of the food you ate that was not part of one your meals such as all of your snacks.

The group decides which person in the group will be responsible for which meal

Keep track of your eating habits for one week

Each student should study the food pyramid to find out what is involved in good nutrition

You should also visit the following sites to find out about good nutrition

Food to choose more often then less

Guidelines for Healthy Eating

As a group work through the power point presentation on portion control

Find out what a serving is described as for each of the food group

The expert for each meal will plan a menu for a person between the ages of 12 and 14 who has very limited physical activity. (Sorry but three hours of moving your thumbs on a video game controller does not count.)

The Food Guide

Meal Planning

Breakfast first

The Healthy Fridge receipts

Ten tips to Healthy Eating

Each expert will do the following

plan a menu for a week for your meal using the provided form

The menu should be one that they themselves would want to eat

Fill out the form listing what their menu is

For each day the break down of what food groups and how many servings should be listed

Contribute information to the final presentation.

The whole group will produce a power point program that will include the following information:

Daily nutritional requirements for a person you age

What risks are there to the body with poor nutrition both now and in the future

Give examples of both poor and good meal menus

What does your body gain by good nutrition both now and in the future.

At the end of the quest students will need to hand in a copy of

Their food log of what they ate for a week

The menu which they created to get out of detention

And either a disk, an e-mail or saved to the server a copy of their power Point presentation