UNIT 2 PROJECTDo Your Food Choices Adequately Nourish Your Body?

Throughout Unit 2

You will determine how well the food that you ingest nourishes your body

You will determine how you can improve your personal eating habits to make your food choices even more beneficial

In addition to Unit 2 Assignments You are required to complete a major

project that has five parts:3-Day Food RecallNutrient AnalysisDiet AnalysisReflective JournalEducational Presentation

○ Essay, PowerPoint, Prezi, Photostory, etc

The Project

Unit 2 Project – worth 25% of your final mark

Rest of courseProject

Parts of the Project

3-Day Food Recall (5% of the project) Nutrient Analysis (20% of the project) Diet Analysis (20% of the project)

You do these within Unit 2 – instructions are there

Reflective Journal (15% of the project)

Educational Presentation (40% of the project)

Reflective Journal

You begin writing this at the end of the first week of Unit 2 (approximately week 4 of the course)

Continue to add dated entries each week until the end of the unit (approximately week 12 of the course)

Reflective Journal - Instructions

As per the instructions for the project… Beginning in the first week of Unit 2 and every week while

you work throughout the Unit: report on the things you have learned in the course during that

week

Write one dated entry per week

When describing what you are learning: relate how it builds a better understanding of your nutritional

requirements and how it has helped you to improve your eating habits.

Reflective Journal – Instructions

Advice The content notes on carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and

minerals and water should help you along the journey.

Comment on the food recall activity and the nutrient analysis that you will perform with the aid of the Food Focus 3.4 program, as well as the various assignment work and overall diet analysis.

Outline any challenges you faced along the way and how you overcame them.

Discuss your use of time and how well you are able to keep up with your course work.

Reflective Journal - sample

Your entries are about you… and what you learned in the unit. Your opinions are also important. It’s a REFLECTION… so reflect onwhat you learned, what surprised you, how it relates to you.

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Educational Presentation

This part is worth 40% of the projectYou can do it with:

○ An Essay○ A PowerPoint presentation○ A Prezi presentation○ A Photostory○ A movie

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The Presentation

The question to answer is:Do your food choices adequately nourish

your body?

As per the project instructions

How to cite sources

Two “examples” ofPowerPoint Presentations

Of course, I cannot show you the presentations

An example of a Prezi

Here is an example of a Prezi that I created for another subject (click on image)

Final Thoughts This project is important You cannot get this done in a few days or a

weekSo, try to manage your time well

Take this seriously… you can do it. Focus on your own data and nutrient

requirements – this is about YOU Show (with charts/graphs) exactly which

nutrients you are getting enough of, and not enough of.

Presentation Rubric