Food, Health and Behaviour
- Tutor: Robert Smith
- Organisation:Sheffield College
Introduction to Webquest
Last week I watched Jamie Oliver's School Dinners on TV. Many of you work with or have children.
This web-quest is about exploring the links between food and health, summarising arguments,
and also asks questions about how reliable what we find on the internet may be.
Webquest Tasks
Task 1
You will write a short report on what you have found out about the effects of diet on health.
Task 2
You will summarise a passage of text http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2356163.stm
Task 3
You will write a short report on weighing up how to decide whether web sites are reliable.
Webquest Process
First read this quote:
Jamie was asked, �What have you learned from doing the series?
One of the most shocking things that I just hadn't realised was how much food is taken on the go, it's not there to be shared or enjoyed. A lot of kids don't even have a table at home, they just take their food and go upstairs and eat it in front of their PlayStations. I mean, I like a bowl of noodles in front of the telly with the missis all right, but it's also great to share meals with others, and sometimes it's fantastic for the family to sit down and eat together.
The other really important thing is making people understand. People say: 'My kid eats this or that junk food, and he's all right.' They don't realise what the long-term effect's gonna be. It takes a doctor or paediatrician to say to them, your kid's storing up this that or the other health problem. The information's all there: the statistics show that we're growing more obese, getting more diseases linked with poor diet. We should be saying, f--- it, what are we doing? If we don't act now, in 100 years what will people think � they'll look back and see, all the signs were there � and they'll say why didn't they do anything."
Secondly, visit some of the resource websites, remember to make notes, keep the TASKS in mind.
Thirdly, open Word, create a new document, save it as food. IMPORTANT Make sure it gets saved onto a floppy disk before the end of the session.
Write up tasks 1, 2 and 3.
Proofread your answers, for spelling, punctuation and meaning.
REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR WORK
Resource 1:
links page.
You can go from here to the series home page which has lots of information.
These links include both official and unofficial sites.
Resource 2:
Summarise this article for Task 2
Resource 3:
News of a 2004 report.
Resource 4:
The good the bad and the ugly of food additives.
Resource 5:
An Australian pressure group.
Resource 6:
find out what the E numbers are.
Resource 7:
A guide by University of Berkeley,
California
Resource 8:
A less academic guide.
Resource 9:
Lots of sites that offer guides to evaluating whether web content can be trusted!
- URL:
A list of guides!
Webquest Evaluation
Your work will be judged using these criteria:
Distinction - has completed all tasks creatively.
Merit - has completed all 3 tasks with attention to detail.
Pass - has attempted all 3 Tasks with minimum effort.
Fail - has not attempted all three Tasks.
Webquest Conclusion
By doing this Web Quest you will have:
Evaluated information from a number of sources Rt/L2.5
Used organisational features of text to locate information Rt/L2.6
Used different reading strategies to obtain information. Rt/L2.7
You will have summarised a passage Rt/L2.8
Written a report, which you will have checked for spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Evaluated sources of information.
Webquest created on: Fri Mar 4 15:32:05 GMT 2005