1. Understand how eating habits affect my health and growth.
2. Know how to put together an individualized balanced diet on a budget.
3. Understand the importance of increasing or limiting various nutrients.
4. Understand how various vitamins and minerals promote health.
5. Understand what calories are and how they relate to nutrients.
6. Use food labels to make better choices.
7. Describe how nutritional needs change based on caloric needs, basal metabolic rate, degree of physical activity, pregnancy and other factors.
8. Understand and observe safe food handling
9. Judge the effectiveness of various nutritional products.
10. Know the signs of eating disorders and where to get help.

1. Recognize the functions of nutrients
2. Evaluate individual needs based on national dietary guidelines.
3. Design a menu plan on a budget based on dietary guidelines.
4. Monitor and evaluate a diet based on nutritional requirements.
5. Evaluate nutritional claims, products and supplements (diet plans, performance enhancing products, herbs, sports drinks, weight-gain and weight-loss products, etc.).
6. Accurately and effectively Interpret food labels.
7. List and describe warning signs and behaviors associated with eating disorders, short and long-term health problems that may result and identify resources for getting help.

1. Where does my food come from?
2. What factors influence my food choices?
3. What does my body do with the foods I eat?
4. How do nutrients promote the health of each body system?
5. How can I use nutrition labels to make better food choices?
6. How do I plan and monitor a healthy diet? 
7. How do I balance my calories with my needs to maintain a healthy weight?
8. How can I handle food safely?
9. What are the different reasons I eat food?
10. How do my eating habits affect my health and growth?
11. How can I tell if I or someone I know has an eating disorder? What could I do?

Online Activities - Print work to turn in or post to blog

1. Healthy Body Calculator - Complete the questionnaire and print the results to turn in. Include a 200 word paragraph reflecting on what you learned from the activity and how you will apply it to your life.
2. Daily Food Plan - Enter the information and print the results to turn in and use it to plan your menu
3. Menu Planner - Watch this tutorial that shows you how to use My Plate to create a menu, then create an account and begin planning your menu based on dietary guidelines. You must plan a healthy menu for your family for an entire week and submit it when finished.
4. Assess your food intake - Use your My Plate account to track and evaluate what you eat every day for a month. This food log accounts for a substantial portion of your grade.
5. Assess your physical activity - Use your My Plate account to track and evaluate what you eat every day for a month. This food log accounts for a substantial portion of your grade.
6. Play the Food Label Reading Game - Use this elementary school activity to learn the parts of nutrition labels.
7. Clip and evaluate nutrition labels from at least two food items from each food group. Your evaluation must address each component of the nutrition label.
8. Address each of the essential questions in a blog or scrapbook. Essential questions require answers that are based on a variety of sources and accumulation of knowledge.

Quizzes

Essential Questions - Answer on your blog

1. Where does my food come from?
2. What factors influence my food choices?
3. What does my body do with the foods I eat?
4. How do nutrients promote the health of each body system?
5. How can I use nutrition labels to make better food choices?
6. How do I plan and monitor a healthy diet? 
7. How do I balance my calories with my needs to maintain a healthy weight?
8. How can I handle food safely?
9. What are the different reasons I eat food?
10. How do my eating habits affect my health and growth?
11. How can I tell if I or someone I know has an eating disorder? What could I do?

1. My Pyramid Tracker
2. NutritionData's Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter
3. NutritionData BMI & Calories Burned Calculator
4. Nutrition Standards Calculator

1. WHO | Nutrition health topics
2. USDA National Agricultural Library
3. Nutrition and Health
   News on gardening, health, nutrition, thrifty living, storm survival, and safe holiday food ideas from the University of Illinois Extension
4. Establishing Nutrition Standards in Schools
   A School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) conducted by The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in 2000 found that few States or school districts had specific nutrition standards. Find out what you can do to help change this.
5. macro-nutrients
6. Nutrition Resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
7. Nutrition and Health
   News on gardening, health, nutrition, thrifty living, storm survival, and safe holiday food ideas from the University of Illinois Extension
8. USDA National Agricultural Library
   Alphabetical Index of topics
9. Nutrition.gov
   US federal guide offering access to all government web sites with reliable and accurate information on nutrition and dietary guidance
10. Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
    The focal point within USDA where scientific research is linked with the nutritional needs of the American public.
11. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers.
12. MedlinePlus Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
    Health information from the National Library of Medicine. Easy access to Medline and Health topics, medical dictionaries, directories and publications.
13. Food and Drug Administration
    Home Page for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
14. About Nutrition
    Guide to nutrition information with vitamin and mineral index, articles, news updates, free e-mail newsletter, chat room, discussion forums, and recipe boards.
15. Nutrition - Wikipedia
    An encyclopedia article on nutrition, including sections on history, health, food processing, longevity, lifetstyle, policy, holistic approaches and many other areas. 
16. American Dietetic Association - Food & Nutrition Information
17. What's Right for Kids: Improving the School Nutrition Environment

    Weekly Menu Planner

1. Family Day Website
2. Family Day Brochure (Wisconsin)
3. What's Right for Kids: Improving the School Nutrition Environment (Wisconsin)

1. Nutrition Data Calculators
2. Nutrition Data
3. Recipe Nutrition
4. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
5. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference Nutrient Lists

1. Nutrition Syllabus
2. Health and Fitness Standards - Grade Level Expectations (DRAFT)
3. Curricular Resources in Nutrition
4. Interpret Food Labels (1)
5. Interpret food labels (2)
6. Weekly Menu Planner

Eating Disorders

 

Dying to be Thin

In this webquest, students will gather research into a word processing document. Research will include information on applying living skills, healthy eating practices, personal goals that revlect healthy eating practices and identifying local support groups.