(Refer to Project Based Learning Handbook, p. 86) [edit]

• Student Lunches verses Teacher Lunches
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Food Awareness
Teacher/Student demands on food
Are students treated equally?
What’s the quality of foods supplied?
– Students Interview Staff and Cafeteria Workers on
Lunch Foods
• The good, the bad and the ugly
– Create report with charts
– Nutritional Value of Food offered at School
• Caloric intake
• Nutritional balance
• Consumption patterns
– Graph findings
– Nutritionist Guest Speaker
• Body, Mind and Soul
– The affect of fast food on your body
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Additives
Preservatives
Sugars
Fats
• Create an ad warning of effects of food
• How has population growth influenced
agricultural production?
– Create a Power Point using materials
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From the US History course
Internet research
Including timelines
Appropriate images
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Pesticides
Chemical engineering
Genetically engineered food products
Organic food
– Compile report data into a research paper.
– Guest Speaker from AQI
• Consumer education
– How do food choices affect our well being?
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1 week regular
1 week junk food
1 week health food
Create a food journal
– Daily entries
– Diagram of findings
– Design test data sheet
– Decisions
• Conventional vs. Organic foods
– Economics
• Relationship between budget and organic food choices
– Create a personal budget
• Multimedia production
– Account representation of all research data
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Food Journal
Book/Pamphlet on project data
PPT on reportage
Tri-fold