Sustained Inquiry

Investigating - How healthy is your lunch?

Description

Here, we'll investigate some example lunches and investigate how healthy they are.

 

Step 1 - Research

Investigate the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating poster and discuss:

1) What do you notice?

2) What sort of foods are listed inside the chart?

3) Why are some foods listed outside the chart?

4) Why might be the function of each group?

 

Step 2 - Investigate

Investigate how healthy your own lunches are:

1) What did you bring for lunch today? Build a list of common lunchbox items.

2) Using this worksheet, analyze how healthy each item is:

- How do you make it? What sort of ingredients do you use? Is it easy to make?

- What food group(s) is it in? Is it in the chart or outside of it?

- Is it crunchy, chewy, creamy, or something else? What does it taste like? Does it taste good? 

- What is it packaged in? Is there anything left over after you eat it?

- How healthy is the item?

- CHALLENGE - Research and analyze some lunches from other cultures.

Knowledge and Understanding

- Determining, using the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, what goes into a healthy diet and considering a wide range of options.

- Investigating how different foods require different preparation methods.

- Experimenting with ingredients and techniques to design and make food products or meals for selected groups for healthy eating.

Process and Production Skills

- Examining the production of local products and examples for healthiness to enhance their own design ideas.

Generating - What do people need in a lunch?

Description

Here, we'll investigate dietary needs and how we can accommodate for them.

 

Step 1 - Research

1) What are some common allergens that you need to be aware of (nuts, gluten, ect.)?

2) What are some common diets that you need to be aware of (vegan, keto, ect.)?

3) Refer back to your worksheet from the last activity - Which foods have allergens? Which foods are a part of which diet?

4) What might be some good alternatives?

5) CHALLENGE - Reseach some lunches that account for allergies/diet.

 

Step 2 - Design

Choose one allergy AND one diet, and come up with a character you will design your lunch for:

- What is their name?

- What do they want out of their lunch? (Do they need something quick, affordable, practical, ect.)

- What sort of diet do they have?

- What allergies do they have?

- What sort of flavors do they like?

- CHALLENGE - Begin to research some options this person might pack in their lunchbox

Knowledge and Understanding

- Investigating how different foods require different preparation methods.

- Experimenting with ingredients and techniques to design and make food products or meals for selected groups for healthy eating.

Process and Production Skills

- Developing design criteria that consider universal design principles to address social sustainability.

Producing and Evaluating - What does a healthy lunch look like?

Description

Here, we'll design a lunchbox for our character.

 

Step 1 - Design

1) Research options that our character will use in their lunch. Make sure to account for their dietary needs and each of the food groups.

2) Design and draw a lunchbox for the character - make sure to label each item!
3) CHALLENGE - Compile an ingredients list for your lunchbox, and try to calculate how long it would take to make and how much it will cost.

Step 2 - Evaluate and Present

1) Using the worksheet, analyze your own lunch.

2) How healthy is your lunch? How does it compare to your own?

3) Present your diagram to the class, explaining a) your character and b) one or two items in your lunchbox.

Knowledge and Understanding

- Experimenting with ingredients and techniques to design and make food products or meals for selected groups for healthy eating.

Process and Production Skills

- Developing design criteria that consider universal design principles to address social sustainability.Click here to add text.

- Communicating design ideas using annotated diagrams.