Why is Health and Nutrition Important in my Life?

A WebQuery for 8th Grade

Designed By

Linse Vlahovich
VlahovichL@cwu.edu


Introduction | Task | Process | Resources | Evaluation | Conclusion

Introduction

You yourself have just graduated from college with a degree in health and physical education. The new school year is just about to start and you are finally getting the chance to teach in your very own health classroom. It is officially your job to teach to your students about leading a healthy lifestyle and why health and nutrition is so important as a part of your daily life. It is going to be your job to teach your about healthy nutrition options as well as ideas for different types of exercise, and maybe even health risks someone may be looking at if they don't lead a healthy lifestyle

Task

Your job is to create a booklet that is dedicated to healthy food and exercise options. Your booklet needs to be colorful and involve words, explanations and pictures so that your students can easily understand what the booklet is trying to tell them. You may create this booklet anyway that you would like, using print outs, glue, staples, hand written explanations or even typed explanations. There must be enough information so that students are able to view multiple healthy nutrition options for different meals of the day, as well as an array of work out opportunities.

It is your job to utilize your resources; you may use the internet, the library or even books that are found in our health classroom.

The Process

When putting together your booklet you may want to ask yourself:

~What are some healthy food options for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack time?
~Is this physical activity that I want to engage in myself?
~Do I have different types of foods that anyone can enjoy?
~Am I thinking of lifetime activities such as walking, running, or bike riding?
~Am I involving too many sports?
~What does a healthy meal consist of?
~What are the rules for eating healthy? How times a day should I eat? Portion sizes? etc...
~Food Pyramid?
~ How often should you work out?
~ What does being healthy really consist of?
~Am I at risk?

You are creating this booklet so that a person can start to lead a healthy lifestyle. You want to be a role model!

Resources

Here are some resources for your use. These might help you find information to you use in your booklet, you may also use other resources that you find on your own, just make sure that you have a page that lists all of your resources. Other great places to find information maybe the school library, local library, or from books in the classroom. Don't limit yourself!
 

Evaluation


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Content
explanations are fully a clear. There are multiple options for nutrition and fitness as well as an overview of different health risks.
explanations are present but not in depth. Multiple options for nutrition and fitness. Health Risks are Listed.
explanations are short. There isn't an array of options. Health risks may be listed.
Explanations aren't present. There are only a few options to chose from. Health risks may only be listed of present at all.
Grammar
No spelling or grammatical errors
very few spelling or grammatical errors
some spelling and grammatical errors
an abundance of spelling and grammatical errors
Art
Pictures are present and meaningful. Pictures are in color and are present on several pages.
Pictures are present but may not be in color. Pictures are present on several pages.
Pictures may or may not be in color. There are very few and may not be meaningful.
Very few pictures are present if any.
Presentation
You are able to go in depth with your booklet, come across as knowledgeable; not having to ready each page before hand. Explain multiple pages to your classmates. You are the teacher, and are able to teach and share information from your booklet.
Student was able to share some information with the class without reading directly from pages in the booklet.
Student had to read often directly from booklet, but was still able to add other in depth information
Student did not go into depth at all, and had to read directly from every page of the booklet.

Conclusion

Now that you each have created your own booklet, the more you learn throughout your lives and the more learn throughout this class can be added to this booklet. Later in life you can return to this booklet you remind you why you want to lead a healthy lifestyle and why it is so important for everyone, including you and your family.

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