What Can I Eat With Food Allergies?!

A WebQuery for High School Students

Megan Serna
sernam@cwu.edu

Introduction

Today we are seeing more and more young students developing food allergies and as a young person it is difficult to know how to deal with this. You all know that I am allergic to wheat and soy and this is something that has been extremely difficult for me to adjust to. Food allergies is something that everyone needs to be aware of and know how to deal with them if they are allergic to a type of food. My task for you is to research a food allergy and make two full day meal plans, one being where you are going to be making and preparing your own food from home and the other where you will be eating out at at restaurants all day.

Task

For this project you and a partner are going to be researching a certain type of food allergy that I will assign you. With more and more people getting food allergies these days I feel that it is important for you to know what the affects of living with a food allergy are and how you can manage and deal with it.

You and your partner are going to come up with two full day meal plans for the food allergy that you have. Day one is going to be where you are going to go grocery shopping at the store and get food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. With this you are going to have to look at the costs of the items and see how much more expensive it is to buy certain types of food. If you cannot find the price of the food try and go to the grocery store to get the price.

For day two you are going to be making a meal plan for going out to eat at a restaurant for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You are going to also have to keep track of how much money you are spending on you meals when you eat out.

All of this is going to be done in a notebook format. In the beginning of your notebook you are going to have the first two pages be research that you have found on the allergy and how it effects the person and how to cope with it. Next you would have your two day meal plans and then at the end of your notebook you will write a reflection on what you have learned from doing this project, one page. Make the notebook fun and creative, use pictures and color to make the notebook more appealing.

The Process

When you are putting together your notebook you may want to ask yourself:

What types of food are healthy for me?
Am I making sure that I am getting the proper nutrients in my diet?
How are you and your partner going to divide the work up?
Where should you start?
What kinds of information will you need?
Where can you find it?
Does this information make you think differently about what types of food you are eating?
How would you feel if you were allergic to a certain type of food?
Can allergies to a certain food be life threatening? If so, how?
What patterns can you detect in the information you have collected? Any similarities or differences that are important?
What are you going to do to make sure you stay away from those foods?
How would you help someone dealing with a food allergy?

Resources

Use this space to point out places on the Internet (or physical resources in the classroom) that will be available for the learners to use to accomplish the task. Embedding the links within a description of the resource will also assist your learners to know in advance what they're clicking on. Although there are five links below, you may have more or less than five -- depending on what is required by your WebQuery. If you are working with very young children or the task is to be conducted fairly quickly, you can reduce the number of links. If your students are older or the task requires more time to complete, increase the number of links. Also, the more choice you give your students in terms of their task the greater the number of links they will need.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/allergies/allergy.html

This website gives you great information about allergies and how to deal with them. This site also gives you great links to other great resources that you can use to help you put your notebook together.

http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/allergies/hic_special_diets_for_food_allergies.aspx

This is a website that is great for getting special diets for your food allergy that you have. You can find great links to other great websites as well

http://www.medicinenet.com/food_allergy/article.htm

With this website you can find out what a person with food allergies goes through and this would be great information to use in your first two pages of your notebook

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com

This is a great website for you to use to make your grocery store food list for your meal plan for eating at home and making your own meals

http://www.restaurants.com

On this website you can find certain resturants that you are interested in and they can lead you to either their website or what they have on their menu

Evaluation

Located below is a rubric of what each student is expected to complete as their project. Each section will be graded separately and in order to gain the maximum points students must complete in detail every section of the rubric.

Research Report : Behavioral Change
Teacher Name: Ms. Serna

Student Name: ________________________________________

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Organization	Information is very organized with well-constructed paragraphs and subheadings.	Information is organized with well-constructed paragraphs.	Information is organized, but paragraphs are not well-constructed.	The information appears to be disorganized.
Content	Student has included both longevity quiz scores and the recording from each, their journal entries, two behavioral changes and their outcomes in their final paper.	Students has included all parts of the assignment but findings are not detailed enough.	Student has included all parts of the assignment, but findings are very vague in each section.	Student did not include all parts of the assignment.
Grade checks	Students work was completed in detail at each grade check point.	Students work was complete at all grade check points but not in detail.	Students work was incomplete at some of the grade check points.	Students work was incomplete at all grade check points.
Resources	Students documented all resources used in the completion of this project.	Students documented most of the resources used in the completion of this project.	Students documented some of the resources used in the completion of this project.	Students did not document resources used in the completion of this project.
Partner check	Student was present at the partner check point and discussed and recorded ways to better their behaviors.	Student was present at the partner check point and discussed was to better their behaviors but failed to record.	Student was present at the partner check point but did not participate.	Student was not present at the partner check point.

Conclusion

In the completion of this project I hope you have gained a new perspective on how being allergic to certain foods can effect your choices of eating and how to deal with them. Through this project each student should have learned how a person with a certain allergy would deal with this situation. This project should also help the student understand how much time and planning goes on when you are dealing with a certain type of food allergy and also how expensive it can be. So, if you ever get a food allergy later in life, like me, you will have some common knowledge of how to cope and deal with it.

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