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Nutrition
Essential Question: What effect does nutrition have on the
average teenager? Choose one project. Make sure to use all of the important documents
such as the contract, planning paperwork, and any drafts of the work you have
done before your final. Mathematical/ Logical (Number smart): Calculate your calorie intake for 3 days. Calculate the intake of someone that you
believe to eat a nutritious diet.
Compare calories, fats, carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, etc.
According to the numbers who eats a more nutritious diet? In reality who leads a healthier lifestyle?
Why? Create a presentation with all of
the numbers as well as your explanation for who is healthier and why. Linguistic (Word Smart): Write a 3-5 page paper that compares and
contrasts the new versus the old food pyramid. First explain how both were created. Then explain why the change for the new
pyramid, then compare and contrast the two.
Next discuss the question, “What does a nutritious lifestyle look
like?” Finally. With that said, do you have a healthy lifestyle? Music: Choose 3 or 4 commercial jingles that you have heard. What kinds of food are they for? Would
these foods be considered nutritious?
Where do they fit in on the food pyramid? As your parents or other adults around you
about the food jingles they remember from when they were younger. What kind of food jingles do they
remember? Where would their foods fit
on the old food pyramid? Which era
advertised for a more nutritious lifestyle?
What makes you think so? Create a presentation that explains which
jingles you used and why and the discussion you had with an adult in your
life. Also explain your findings to
the class in 3-5 minute presentation. Interpersonal (People Smart): Interview 5 people in
your life of different ages about their average daily intake of food. Make sure to get a typical day’s food in
writing. Then write a paper about the “average
NH food intake” from the information that you have collected. Finally present your finding to the class
in some way. Intrapersonal (Self Smart): Create a 10 day food
diary writing down everything that you eat.
After 10 days look at what you ate.
Argue whether or not it was nutritious based on the new food pyramid
and the information you have found about a nutritious diet. You may present your findings in a paper or
poster or power point presentation. Naturalistic (Nature Smart): What do pesticides do
to our food? What sorts of chemicals
are being fed to the animals that we eat on a regular basis? What effect do
these pesticides and chemicals have on our nutrition? How can you cut down on the intake of these
things? What should people do to the
vegetables and meat that they buy to avoid them? Create a presentation either with power
point or through a poster and a 3 -5 minute presentation to the class. Spatial (Art Smart): Storyboard a 3-5 minute movie to promote a
nutritious lifestyle. Use the
information about the new food pyramid and the text on a healthy
lifestyle. Also look at some of the
resource webpages to help you decide what
information is the most important to put in your movie. Then present your
story board to the class. Bodily Kinesthetic (Body Smart): Create a model of a nutritious
lifestyle. In your model be sure to
use the information you have learned from the text, any webpages
you have used as well as the new food pyramid. You will need to be able to defend your
model and tell me and the class, how it shows what a nutritious lifestyle
looks like.
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