“Camp Nutrition Quest”

Class: Physical Education Class

Grade Level: 4-6 Grades

Introduction:

Our country is struggling with the issue of obesity and food nutrition and fitness.  Many adults say that children today are not healthy because they do not exercise enough, they eat too much junk food, and watch too much television. 

The Task:

Your task is an opportunity to prove them wrong. You are being asked to join with two other classmates to form a team and become camp counselors for this summer. This is a camp for kids ages 6 to 8. The camp’s focus is on creating healthy lifestyles and teaching campers how to stay fit by exercising and eating properly. You have three responsibilities as a team during experience of preparing for camp.  At the end you are expected to have prepared the following:

 

1.    Learn about heart rate, target heart rate, exercise and show what you have learned using a flow chart, web, or graph in a presentation for the campers.

2.    Develop a brochure for parents with tips about helping their children stay healthy, and include games or activities that will help them stay fit.

3.    Develop a menu for the week that includes breakfast, lunch, a healthy snack, and dinner.  Healthy foods and meals should be strategically planned to provide all the essential nutrients for one day according to the food pyramid guide.  Make the menu fun and healthy so campers will enjoy eating at meal times. 
 

Resources:

:  The Healthy Refrigerator

:  Kids Staying Healthy

 

Resources about Heart rate and Health Hearts:

 

:  Heart: Surfing the Net

:  Target Heart Rate

:  Lean about your heart 

Resource Tips on Staying Healthy and Fit:

:  10 Tips for Eating Healthy and Physical Fitness

:  Why Exercise is Cool

:  Facts about Fast Food

Resources for Healthy Food choices and a Healthy Menu:

:  Kids Food Pyramid Guide

:  Government’s Food Pyramid Guide

:  Nutrition Fun

:  Fun Cookbooks and Recipes

:  American Heart Association Cookbook

Process:

1. Find two other classmates to work together in order to accomplish the tasks.
 

Tasks

1. Chart, Web or Graph on Heart Rate, Exercise and Target Heart Rate.

2. Brochure on Healthy Lifestyle including fun games or activities that will help them stay fit

3. Menu for a Week using healthy food choices

2. Research the web sites

Take notes on the information you find and where you found the information. There might be sites that have good information for more than one task.

3. Task 1
Decide what type of representation you are going to use for this task. Transfer the information from your notes to the diagram.

4. Task 2

Choose a topic for your brochure.  Here are several ideas for topics to use.  You can use one or several of the ideas or come up with your own idea under the given criteria:

·       The Food Pyramid and Favorite Fast Food Restaurant

·       Eating Healthy

·       Keeping a Healthy Heart

·       Physical Fitness

·       Physical Games and Activities

 

The brochure should be in brochure form, either 2 panel or 3 panel brochure. 

 

5. Task 3

1.    Prepare a menu. It should include breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack for five days

2.    You can type your menu in a Word processing format or another creative way of displaying your menu.

 

Evaluation:

You will be graded on several aspects of your project.  Each task will be graded individually and the points will be added together to create your total grade. (See rubric attached)
 

Conclusion:

·       Your team with have an opportunity to demonstrate and display your chart, brochure, and menu to the class.  You should be prepared to discuss what you have learned through this project and one cool fact you didn’t know before this Web-quest.
 

·       Now that you have prepared profiles for healthy lifestyles for the campers, you too can take what you have learned to help you live a healthy lifestyle and eat healthy too!