Objectives:
After completeing this projects, students will be able to:
-Have a video podcast of healthy eating techniques based on research students performed
-Proper read food labels
-Recognize healthy eating habits
-Make better choices when eating outside the home
-Create a wiki for continued discussion on healthy eating
Suggested Activity Time
8 hours
Big Idea-Interdependence: Human Rights and Social Justice/Human Needs and Quality of Life-Food
Essential Question
If we are what we eat, what are we then?
Overview
America is fat. Estimates put America's obesity at 50%. We can either look at the causes or we can work on changes perspective on eating habits. We chose the latter. Helping people, specifically students, make better choices about what they eat can help make a dent in the epidemic called Obesity.
We looked at this as a three pronged problem. These were our Challenges.
1. People don't have the food knowledge they need to make healthy choices
2. People don't know how easy it is to make healthy foods
3. People don't know what to do with this information
Our focus then was to attack the problem on multiple fronts. These are our Questions
1. Give people the knowledge about growing their own food. Growing local makes healthy sense because you control what goes into the ground. How do we give this information to people?
2. Cooking healthy is a seen as a tasteless experiment where the results are inedible and the techniques are foreign to many. How can we show them that healthy food is easy to make and tasty to eat?
3. Eating out is part of American culture. Yet there isn't nutritional information on the menu. How do we give people the tools to make smarter choices when going out to eat?
With the Questions in mind, we focused on Activities/Resources
1. Let's make a video of us cooking healthy foods. Funky editing, hip music, and real students as actors are great ways to engage the audience. We then demystify the cooking process and show that healthy food is easy to make, quick to create and tasty to eat.
2. Let's make a list of things that every kitchen should have on hand to make healthy meals. Making a list helps students because they can just check things off that they have and they can take the list to the grocery store when they go shopping.
3. Let's reference books, such as "Eat This, Not That", as way of shining a light on foods nutritional value and take pressure off people to eat just salads.
4. Let's create a wiki for students to post healthy recipes and as a place for all the information we have gathered. Let's also put a discussion board on the website so people can interact with each other.
With the Activities and Resources in mind, we look towards a Solution/Action
1. Knowledge about food is key. Information will lead to better choices and thusly, obesity will be tackled.
2. The solution can be started by us, we people have to join us in our battle. Opening up the discussion is vital.
3. Eating healthy isn't just a once in a while thing. It's a life choice.
Social Change, Citizen Choice-Food
Lesson Plan
Curriculum area: Technology, Language, Science, Culinary Arts
Grade Level: Grades 9-12
Objectives:
After completeing this projects, students will be able to:
-Have a video podcast of healthy eating techniques based on research students performed
-Proper read food labels
-Recognize healthy eating habits
-Make better choices when eating outside the home
-Create a wiki for continued discussion on healthy eating
Suggested Activity Time
8 hours
Big Idea-Interdependence: Human Rights and Social Justice/Human Needs and Quality of Life-Food
Essential Question
If we are what we eat, what are we then?
Overview
America is fat. Estimates put America's obesity at 50%. We can either look at the causes or we can work on changes perspective on eating habits. We chose the latter. Helping people, specifically students, make better choices about what they eat can help make a dent in the epidemic called Obesity.
We looked at this as a three pronged problem. These were our Challenges.
1. People don't have the food knowledge they need to make healthy choices
2. People don't know how easy it is to make healthy foods
3. People don't know what to do with this information
Our focus then was to attack the problem on multiple fronts. These are our Questions
1. Give people the knowledge about growing their own food. Growing local makes healthy sense because you control what goes into the ground. How do we give this information to people?
2. Cooking healthy is a seen as a tasteless experiment where the results are inedible and the techniques are foreign to many. How can we show them that healthy food is easy to make and tasty to eat?
3. Eating out is part of American culture. Yet there isn't nutritional information on the menu. How do we give people the tools to make smarter choices when going out to eat?
With the Questions in mind, we focused on Activities/Resources
1. Let's make a video of us cooking healthy foods. Funky editing, hip music, and real students as actors are great ways to engage the audience. We then demystify the cooking process and show that healthy food is easy to make, quick to create and tasty to eat.
2. Let's make a list of things that every kitchen should have on hand to make healthy meals. Making a list helps students because they can just check things off that they have and they can take the list to the grocery store when they go shopping.
3. Let's reference books, such as "Eat This, Not That", as way of shining a light on foods nutritional value and take pressure off people to eat just salads.
4. Let's create a wiki for students to post healthy recipes and as a place for all the information we have gathered. Let's also put a discussion board on the website so people can interact with each other.
With the Activities and Resources in mind, we look towards a Solution/Action
1. Knowledge about food is key. Information will lead to better choices and thusly, obesity will be tackled.
2. The solution can be started by us, we people have to join us in our battle. Opening up the discussion is vital.
3. Eating healthy isn't just a once in a while thing. It's a life choice.