What s For Lunch Directions

What’s for Lunch? 1 Rubric EXPECTATIONS Understanding the Task The “What’s for Lunch” PBL experience is designed to help students use critical and analytical thinking skills as well as decision-making skills to determine the ideal nutritional and tasty lunch menus based on the research they’ve conducted. When designing the menus, the students must carefully consider what constitutes a healthy and nutritional school lunch. They must also conduct research to better understand the Federal Government’s regulations regarding school lunch requirement. Teams must use the results from the survey to determine key information regarding the students’ lunch preferences. Note: Students must carefully analyze the surveys to determine the overall needs of the school. For instance, a team that discovers that the McDonald’s Big Mac is a favorite amongst the students in the school does not have to include the Big Mac in one of the menus. But instead, students may try to find the restaurant and the burger that is a healthier option. Roles and Responsibilities of Teams As students work together to complete the task, they will consider their areas of strength in order to determine the roles and responsibilities of each of the members of the group. Students should come to a consensus to determine which member(s) will be primarily responsible for researching, recording, designing, etc. Roles and Responsibilities of Teacher/Technology Coordinator Your role will be to work as a facilitator to assist the teams. Review the rubric with the students so that they will understand what is expected. The students should rely less on you and more on their teammates. Students will be responsible for finding the needed information from a variety of sources that include but are not limited to the Internet, textbooks, electronic encyclopedias, etc. You can assist by providing direction and guidance, posing thoughtprovoking questions, and setting pacing guidelines. You may choose to structure time for students to use computers in the classroom (Computer Learning Centers). Lab time is ideal for the entire class to conduct research, brainstorm (perhaps using software such as Inspiration), correspond via ePals to teammates, generate their menus, prepare their presentations, etc. 2 Rubric Publishing/Presenting the Plan Once team members have selected the best restaurants (vendors), they must present their plan to the “Principal.” All publications should be persuasive and creative. Teams should use care when designing their menus, PowerPoint shows, and web pages. Timeline Week 1: Create & distribute information regarding the Survey Week 2: Conduct research & complete the Nutrition activities Week 3: Conduct research & complete the Nutrition activities Week 4: Analyze the results of the survey Week 5: Design the 4 Menus Select the restaurants which will provide the meals you will design (See Week 5). Week 6: Design the web page and other publications to convince the principal 3 Rubric Checklist Did you remember to…  Email the principal a letter of acceptance expressing that you will be a part of the committee?  Email your committee members introducing yourself and getting to know them?   Visit the Packaged /Elementary Lunches links to get an overview of Newark’s school lunch program? Visit the “Have a Bite” site and enter the information for one of the NPS lunches? Did you compare your “Have a Bite” findings with the Recommended Daily Allowance chart? Design your survey in Survey monkey (using the ePals discussion forum)?      Email the address of the survey to your schoolmates? Visit the school’s ePals web page to access the weekly posted comments? Complete each of the Nutrition activities? 4 Rubric  Complete the “What I’ve Learned” sheet and email it as an attachment to your teacher?  Analyze the results of the survey, creating the appropriate charts and graphs and addressing the questions on the “Analyzing the Survey” slide? Visit the calorie counters site and research the nutrition information for at least 5 restaurants?   Collaborate with your teammates via ePals to brainstorm on the 4 best restaurants to act as vendors for your school? Develop your 4 menus (using all that you know and have learned about nutrition and certain fast food restaurants?) Publish the menus, your findings about nutrition, etc. in a creative and persuasive way to convince your principal that your committee has made the best selections? (PowerPoint, FrontPage, Hyper Studio, etc.) Link your publications to a posted web page (school web page, geocities, etc)?    5 Evaluation The students’ final projects will be evaluated using a rubric specific to the task (See attached rubric). Students will be expected to present their finished products to an actual team of scorers using the rubric supplied. Projects receiving the highest score will receive exemplary status and is encouraged to be displayed on the school’s website. 6 “What’s For Lunch” Criterion-base Checklist Key Traits Research •Nutrition •Survey •The •The Description team has completed each activity “What I have Learned” sheet has been thoroughly completed Points 20 Activities from A – Z and shows that the team has a considerable understanding of nutrition. •The “What I have Learned” sheet should contains key points that relate to nutrition in general, the Food Pyramid, the Federal School Lunch program, Newark’s school lunch program, comments posted to ePals, etc. •Survey contains important questions and organized •Survey was well-structured •Data from the survey is properly analyzed. 10 ePals Connections The team has addressed each of the following ePals opportunities: •Emailing principal •Establishing and and teacher maintaining a connection with the committee members •Participating in the •Emailing the •Visiting the ePals discussion forum survey to schoolmates school’s ePals homepage for additional nutritional information Selection of the Restaurants The team’s selection process indicates that they •Thoroughly researched •Have 15 the offerings of selected restaurants a thorough understanding of nutrition used the information from the survey to identify the •Creatively preference s of the school •Collaborated with fellow teammates 7 Development of the Menus The menus •Contain 15 complete lunch options (main course, side item(s), and drink) from 4 restaurants •Are •Are diverse nutritionally balanced the preferences of the school •Reflect •Are •Are creative and appealing artistic and well-organized 40 Presentation (PowerPoint, Hyper Studio, Front Page) The presentation •Contains researched information as relates to nutrition, the survey results, etc. •Make reference to ePals charts and graphs 4 selected restaurants and their menu options the teammates •Contains •Highlights the •Creatively introduces •Refers to the current lunch program for the teams choices •Shows justification •Is artistic •Is and well-organized unique and innovative visuals •Uses appropriate 8 9