1. Lesson #2 Title
Quest for Healthier Eating Habits
Author
Josh Worsham: jworsham@henry.k12.ga.us
Lesson Overview
This is an activity designed to help teens use higher level thinking skills when deciding what food and
drink will enter their bodies! Although everything is outlined in this lesson plan, the WebQuest itself
includes much of the information listed here and flows better in my opinion. However, the WebQuest
does not include the instructions on how to use Google Documents or Cacoo.com.
Curriculum Subjects
Health
Estimated Duration
2-3 hours
Grades
9th graders or others in high school health class
Curriculum Goals
HE H.S.1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease
prevention to enhance health.
HE H.S.2: Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and
other factors on health behaviors.
HE H.S.3: Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and
services to enhance health.
HE H.S.4: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to
enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
HE H.S.5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
A3 Represent and interpret information in graphic form.

2. Objectives
Students will participate in higher level thinking about how they currently eat, develop a plan
leading to a healthier, nutrient rich diet.
NETS Standards
2. Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively,
including at a distance,
to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students:
a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital
environments
and media.
b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media
and formats.
c. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other
cultures.
d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:
a. plan strategies to guide inquiry.
b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of
sources and
media.
c. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to
specific tasks.
d. process data and report results.
Prerequisites
Before engaging in this lesson, students must know or be able to use personal computer
including PowerPoint software and a web browser. Knowledge of how to create a login for sites
like Google is also helpful.
Lesson Procedure
Motivational – Preparatory activities:

3. Teacher Preparation
Plan for computer lab time, set up projector and ensure there are enough computers with the
required software and internet connections.
Activity Introduction
In this WebQuest: http://www.zunal.com/WebQuest.php?w=71952, you will take a fun and
interesting journey that will require higher level thinking about how you eat, and how to plan for
a healthier, nutrient rich diet.
1. Have student look up WebQuest on an internet search engine, so they can understand the
concept.
2. Direct students to the web address of the WebQuest.
3. Have them read the introduction page and scan the rest of the pages.
4. Clarify what the expectation of the final product each student must produce to show what they
learned while completing the WebQuest.
Information presentation and information processing (analysis/synthesis) activities:
Review each resources provided in the WebQuest (along with others you find on the internet)
and answer some simple questions. Compare the answers found in the resource with how you
currently eat. For example: How many meals are recommended for a teenage female?
Application activities:
Activity 1: Introduction section: http://www.zunal.com/introduction.php?w=71952
List 3 significant changes can you make to your current eating habits that will benefit your
health?
Activity 2: Task Section: http://www.zunal.com/tasks.php?w=71952
Review each resource provided in the WebQuest (along with others you find on the internet) and
answer some simple questions. Compare the answers found in the resource with how you
currently eat. For example: How many meals are recommended for a teenage female? The
resource may say five, and you are currently only eating two. After these questions are answered,
prepare a Google docs presentation that you can share in class. See instructions below
1. Go to Google.com and sign up for an account, you will need this to complete the WebQuest.
2. After your account is active, look at the top of the page for the word "more". Click on "more"
and look for the word "documents". Double click on "documents".
3. Once you have arrived at Google documents, click on presentations. This program works very
similarly to PowerPoint. The advantage is, sharing your presentations and working
collaboratively is much easier.

4. 4. Use this program to create the presentation required in the WebQuest. When you are finished
with your presentation, click on the arrow next to "share " at the top right hand corner and
change the setting to public. Finally, share the presentation (using the same share button) with
me at: josh30000@gmail.com.
The presentation must describe three things you plan to change to make your diet more healthy,
along with information to support these choices. Also, please include what you learned and your
answers to the questions below.
Questions:
1. What amount of calories are recommended for you?
2. Where can I find out how many calories popular foods contain?
3. What percentage of your diet should be protein, carbohydrate, and fat?
4. Where can you find out what nutrients foods contain?
5. What food can you remove from your diet that will reduce unhealthy calories?
Use the website cacco.com to create a graph that you will include in the presentation as well. See
instructions below
Students,
1. Go to http://www.cacoo.com and sign up for an account.

5. 2. Click on the pink button near the top right edge of the screen that says: create new diagram.
3. Create one useful graph to use in your Google docs presentation required for the WebQuest
assignment.
4. When you graph is finished, click on save.
5. Then click on export, which will allow you to save the graph to your computer.
6. This file can now be inserted into your presentation as a picture!
Closure/review activities:
Included in the presentation required above

6. Assessment / Evaluation
also available at: http://www.zunal.com/evaluation.php?w=71952
Accommodations / Differentiation
Cognitive Difficulties: Partner students with those who finish quickly.
Physical Difficulties: Have Para-professionals input data for the student
Sensory Difficulties: Use screen readers or microphone as necessary
At-Risk Students: Allow them frequent breaks as needed. Listening to music on
headphones is often a nice break for them.
GATE Students: Challenge them to create their own WebQuest to further enhance this
activity.
Materials, Resources, and Equipment
computer with projector (recommend to introduce the Web quest)
computer lab with enough computers for each team
Microsoft Power Point enough copies for each team
multi-media tools
library