My Food Tracking

Date:
Subject: Home Economics Grade: 12
Topic: Nutrition Essential Question: What is healthy
eating?

Materials: electronic device, Canadas food guide, calorie carb and fat counter app,
health app, Google docs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na9ZZ4ZjVa8
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/index-eng.php
https://www.google.ca/docs/about/

Stage 1- Desired Results you may use student friendly language

What do they need to understand, know, and/or able to do?
Students will be able to record everything they eat/ drink in 24 hours.
Students will be able to use the fitness app on device to count steps and calories
burned.
Students will understand how to use technology to record these results.
Students will be able to summarize food intake and activity results and reflect on if they
are meeting Canadas food guide requirements.

Broad Areas of Learning:

The Broad Areas of Learning are: Lifelong Learners, Sense of Self, Community
and Place, and Engaged Citizens.
Students will become lifelong learners as getting proper nutrition is a life long endeavor
that requires effort and thought. They will create a sense of self by learning their own
habits of eating and exercise and what they could change to improve. This will connect
community and place by housing the students where they go to exercise and what
community programs are available to them. Promoting engaged citizens for students to
know what is available to them in their communities and programs to promote healthy
eating and activity.

Cross-Curricular Competencies:
The Cross curricular competencies are developing: thinking, identity and
interdependence, literacies, and social responsibilities.
Students will develop their thinking by recording their own daily lives into the food
tracker app and recording their steps and calories burned on fitness app and reflecting
on results. This will establish identity and interdependence by teaching the students how
to be healthy so they can use these techniques throughout their lives. Students will
develop technology literacies by becoming more familiar with technology and how we
can use it to promote healthy lifestyles. The lesson will promote social responsibility by
becoming more familiar with students own community and how to use the resources.
Outcome(s):
Tounderstandandusethevocabularyrelatedtodiet,food,andfoodpreparation.(COM)

Tointerpretdataandtablesfornutritionalvaluesoffoods.(NUM)

Toapplyknowledgewhenmakingindependentdecisionsregardingfoodchoicesandpreparation.
(CCT,
IL

PGP Goals:
3.2 the ability to use a wide variety of responsive instructional strategies and methodologies to
accommodate learning styles of individual learners and support their growth as social, intellectual,
physical and spiritual beings
2.4 ability to use technologies readily, strategically and appropriately

Stage 2- Assessment

Assessment FOR Learning (formative) Assess the students during the learning to help
determine next steps.
During the lesson I will asses on participation and contribution to searching for which
app suit our classes needs the best. I will asses on completion of bringing their data to
the second class to then be analyzed for discovery.

Assessment OF Learning (summative) Assess the students after learning to evaluate

what they have learned.
The summative assessment at the end of day two will be the completion of the Google
doc, each student is to complete their entry into the document stating their results and
their reflection on future use. I am looking for thoughtful reflections instead of yes and
no answers.
Stage 3- Learning Plan

Motivational/Anticipatory Set (introducing topic while engaging the students)

Watch Richard Simmons Party off the Pounds to get students in activity mood.
Today we will learn about the different apps on our devices to help us track our daily
intake of food and the amount of steps and calories burned in one day. We are going to
see what each of us does in a day and compare it to our food guide recommendations.

Main Procedures/Strategies:
Day One
1. Motivational set
2. Have students look at different health apps with their phones
3. Have each student pick an app for tracking food intake and one for activity
4. Group discussion on which apps are best for the whole class to use, pick best one and
have whole class download the apps on device.
5. Give guidelines of assignment
-24 hour period
-record everything you eat and drink.
- make sure app is counting your activity in that 24 hours
- come to next class prepared with data.

Day Two
1. Students summarize their results according to Canadas food guide recommendations
2. Write out summary into Google docs with next steps for improvement and if they met
Canadas food guide requirements for their sex and age group
3. Discuss as large group if students see these apps as useful for their futures or what
they would change to continue using them.

- Student lead discussion, inquiry, self assessment, comparison and analysis

Adaptations/Differentiation:
- Students with no device will be able to record food intake and exercise by writing
it down and using the schools step counter and use of school computer
- Students will be able to choose own food guide they would like to use if not
 confortable with Canadas
- Students with exceptionalities will do a modified version of this activity with EA,
example would be recording one meal and one hour instead of 24 hours.

Closing of lesson:

The closing of this lesson will be when students add their results to the Google doc to be
shared with the teacher and classmates. They will have the opportunity to write a small
reflection on the Google doc as well to show what they think they did well or what could
be improved on. In the document students will state if they will use this app in the future
why or why not?

Personal Reflection:

*Adapted from Understanding by Design (McTighe and Wiggins, 1998)