Proposal for Webquest

1. This webquest is designed for a Wellness 10 Physical Education class. The skills needed when coming into this assignment include some computer skills, which are minimal because I will be discussing this assignment with the students before they begin. They should also have some knowledge of overall health and wellness, which they will have learned from previous physical education classes.


2. Address: http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/wellness/index.html

-Subject: Wellness 10 Physical Education

-Topics: Nutrition, physical activity, healthy eating, personal wellness, goal setting


3. Concept map:

https://homepage.usask.ca/cgi-bin/files/Health.pdf

Concept Map

4. Higher order thinking questions:

-How do you feel your partner’s lifestyle will affect him/her in the future (10-20 years from now)?

-How do you feel your lifestyle will affect you in the future?

-Do you consider yourself/your partner to be a healthy individual? If so, why or why not.


5. This topic is important to the students because many individuals overlook their health. Without your health then you cannot perform daily activities, as well as you won’t be able to perform well in school. This is proven in the Supersize Me movie clips that I will add as links for the students to view. A healthy body equals a healthy mind. This means health should be looked at as an overall perspective including the amount of water you consume in a day, the amount of physical activity you participate in, as well as what you eat. Students need to be aware of these factors if they want to live healthy active lifestyles, and be successful in their endeavors. They should be looking at the future consequences of the choices they are making today related to the food they eat and the activities they choose to participate in.


6.Teaching Activities:

-Application: Students are to prepare a final paper analyzing their personal and a partner’s results after monitoring 1 week of their physical activity and their nutritional habits.

-Students should record their results on the worksheets (daily food record, nutrition, and fitness goals sheets) every day for 7 days.

-Students should use the links to the energy calculators to help them analyze their activity for the 7 days.

-Students should hand in their assignment to the hand-in folder online when they are completed the webquest.


7. Resources:

-daily food record sheets,

-daily nutrition goal sheets,

-daily fitness goal sheets (for you and for your partner),

-a computer with the internet.



8. Sample sites:

http://www.teenhealthandwellness.com/ - A website on teen health and wellness, looking at information on obesity, nutrition, and fitness.

http://kidshealth.org/teen/ - A website for teens, kids, and their parents specifically relating to health and fitness and issues regarding questions they may have growing up.

http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/wellness/index.html - Wellness 10 curriculum guide.

http://www.caloriescount.com/FoodDiary.aspx - An example of a food dairy with a calorie counter.

http://ontario.teachnutrition.org/home.aspx - Lesson plans, and activities relating to health and nutrition.

http://www.caloriecontrol.org/articleandvideo/journal-of-food-science-study-finds-people-consuming-fewer-calories-have-better-qual - Video on how people who consume less calories have a better quality of living.

http://nat.illinois.edu/ - This is the website to the energy calculators that will be used throughout the assignment.

Supersize Me Movie Sections:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfBc-Rla0uI - part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QIWH0wXJzU&feature=fvw - part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-OEg082D8s&NR=1 - part 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gWjCZ1xv8s&NR=1 - part 10


9. Evaluation: Is mostly based on if students can follow the directions and complete all the steps to this webquest, as well how they can analyze the results from their findings; comparing their personal results with a partner’s results.