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Living a Healthy Lifestyle
A WebQuest for 8th Grade (Health)
Designed by
Knarik
Manukyan
Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits
You have a friend who is overweight and is trying to
loose some weight. She was given many-many different suggestions on what to do.
Now she is asking you to help her decide which food she should eat more, which
food she should eat less, or how to loose weight in general.
Your task is to search the internet and find answers
to the following questions:
How much of each type of food you should eat a day?
How would the exercise help you to loose weight and
stay healthy?
What time of the day should you eat?
Why is it important to drink water?
You will be assigned to a team of 4 students.
You will each be assigned to search one of the
following websites.
1. Click here to use my pyramid guide to find out how
much of each group of food do you need to eat each day. Internet
Lesson
2. Go to http://www.healthgoods.com/education/Fitness_Information/General_Fitness_Information/want_to_lose_weight.htm
to find out how the exercise can help you loose weight and give you many other
benefits.
3. Go to http://www.weightlossforall.com/eating-time.htm
to learn when it is good to eat.
4. Go to http://www.weightlossforall.com/benefits-water-drinking.htm
to find out about the importance of drinking enough water.
After you are done learning about the assigned topic,
you will write two or three paragraphs focusing the key points of each topic and
type it using word.
Then, you will come back as a group and each one of
you will share the information they got from the websites.
Resources
The
following are links to lesson plans.
A Rubric for the Website Summery
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Poor 1 |
Fair 2 |
Good 3 |
Excellent 4 |
Score |
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Applied
Knowledge |
Is
unableto use the knowledge and skills necessary to get the
required information from the website. |
Has little ability to use knowledge and skills into practice to get the required information from the website. |
Has some ability to use knowledge and skills to put into practice to get the required information from the website. |
Has
an excellent ability to use knowledge and skills to put into practice to get
the required information from the website. |
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Ability to Stay On Task |
Is unable to stay focused on the task at hand; disruptive and unproductive |
Has some ability to focus and stay on task; sometimes disruptive and not always productive |
Is able to stay on task, but could not
finish the required assignment on time.
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Excellent ability to remain focused on task at hand; extremely productive |
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Ability to find information and type the work
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Does not demonstrate knowledge about how to find information and type the work. |
Demonstrates some knowledge about how to find information and type the work. |
Has the ability to find information on line, but the information is not as focused on the topic of study. |
Demonstrates excellent knowledge about how to use the internet to obtain necessary information and type the work. |
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Quality of the searched material and the format of the typed assignment |
Did
not search the assigned website and could not type his/her work. |
Not enough information and followed some format instructions for typing. |
Relevant information, minor formatting mistakes |
Information is well focused and summarized, and the type assignment is in correct format. |
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Conclusion
Great job! You have gotten a lot of information about the key components
of healthy lifestyle. You have learned about the importance and the benefits of
exercise. You also learned what time of the day you should eat and how much of each
food group you should have each day. Plus, you learned why it is necessary to
drink the recommended amount of water.
Credits & References
I want to
thank Dr. Chung for teaching us how to make a Web Quest for our classes.
http://www.weightlossforall.com/eating-time.htm
http://www.weightlossforall.com/benefits-water-drinking.htm
Last
updated on November 29, 1999. Based on a template from The
WebQuest Page