ND Curriculum Initiative

Subject & Standards

Understandings & Goals

Enduring Understanding: I want my students to understand the facts that affect their personal well-being as well as others in their family and the long term consequences of their nutrition choices.
Goal(s): 1. To identify nutrition goals that will help them achieve wellness across their life time. 2. To be able to present nutrition information by a method that will be useable and interesting to a wide range of people in their community. 3. To be able to make their information so interesting that members of the community (of all ages) will want to have access to it.

Questions Answered

Essential questions: 1. How can we get a message across to parents and students alike that their personal nutrition is an important part of their life style and well-being?  2. What might be a method we can get nutrition information across to those we come in contact with as well as those we don’t come in personal contact with?
Objectives: 1. Students will be able to find nutrition information that will enhance the well-being of themselves and others in their community. 2. Students will be able to find up-to-date information of relevance to a person’s lifestyle in today’s hurried world. 3. Students will be able to present the information in an interesting manner so others will want to read it. 4. Students will be able to work in pairs and develop an integrated web page using the nutrition information they have found to be relevant to people’s lifestyles of today. 5. Students will have at least 2 reliable Internet links to support their nutrition information. 6. Students will be able to design an interesting web page with at least 2 links to other information for the public.

Assessment

What quiz and test items (e.g. simple content-focused questions that require a single, best answer)will provide evidence of understanding?
I will not use specific quizzes for assessment of this unit. The nutrition information that the students will be using has been assessed in previous units.
What academic prompts (e.g. open-ended questions or problems that require students to think critically and then to prepare a response / product / performance) will provide evidence of understanding?
I will use various academic prompts to assess this unit of instruction: 1. They will be questioned as to what nutrition information they are going to use and why they think it is relevant to people in today’s world. 2. They will need to evaluate the information themselves and then present it in an interesting manner on the web page so others will want to read it.
What performance tasks and projects (e.g. complex challenges that are authentic, mirror the real world and require a performance or product) will you include that will provide evidence of student understanding?
The students will be required to design and apply an interesting web page for the FACS Department on the school web page that is relevant to the nutrition lessons they have learned.
What other evidence (e.g. observations, work samples, dialogues, student self-assessment)of understanding will you collect?
1. The completed web page will be their work sample (It can be accessed at http://www.fessenden.k12.nd.us ).  2. Students will do a self-assessment by asking members of the community if they accessed the new information on the web page and what they thought of it.