Inquiry Integration in the Foods Room

By Genevieve Feron | Posted: Wednesday May 1, 2019

Rooms 11, 12 and 15 are currently taking part in inquiry integration.

Rooms 11, 12 and 15 are currently working in different rooms such as the foods, digi and the hard materials rooms to work on their inquiry topics.

We have been working in the foods room on a topic about nutrition and healthy eating. We decided to present our findings about food nutrition as a slideshow.

We interviewed Mrs Dick-McCann with some questions about inquiry in the foods room.

Mrs Dick-McCann said that all projects are different, and most of them are informing people about the environment. Some of the resources students used for research are magazines, websites and experts. Nutrition experts came as guest speakers to talk about nutrition and health facts. The least common resource that students used for research are books.

Due to the hour long sessions, all the students are fortunately around three quarters through their project. Mrs Dick-McCann also mentioned that she thought every students’ project is interesting but her favourite project from over the years is a cushion a girl made for her dad based on his winning artwork.

Below is one of the pieces of information we have in our slideshow:

Five Easy Steps to Help You Decode the Labels

Step 1: Look at the serving size
Compare the serving size on the package to the amount that you eat. If you eat the serving size shown on the Nutrition Facts Table you will get the number of calories and nutrients that are listed.
Step 2: Look at the calories
Calories tell you how much energy you get from one serving of a packaged food.
Step 3: Look at the percent Daily Value (% Daily Value)
% Daily Value puts nutrients on a scale from 0% to 100%. This scale tells you if there is a little or a lot of a nutrient in one serving of a packaged food. Use this percentage to compare the nutrient content of different foods.
5% Daily Value or less is a little and 15% Daily Value or more is a lot.
Step 4: Try to get more of these nutrients
Fibre, vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, calcium
Step 5 : Try to get less of these nutrients
Fat, saturated fat, trans fat, sodium, cholesterol

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