Healthy Lifestyle Ambassador Webquest

Introduction

Welcome to the Healthy Lifestyle Ambassador Webquest!
The Department of Education has decided that each school needs to create a team of Healthy Lifestyle Ambassadors to encourage healthy living to their school and local community. This position involves educating the school and local community on how to become and stay healthy. As well as winning this title for the rest of the school year you will also be presented with an award for your accomplishment.
In order to gain a position in the team, our school has decided to organize a range of tasks to find the candidates with the most knowledge of living a healthy life.
To complete your mission you will need to satisfactorily complete each of the tasks listed and present your work to your school. The six individuals with the most knowledge will become members of the Healthy Lifestyle Team.

Task
To become a member of the Healthy Lifestyle Team you will need to complete each of the following tasks.

Task 1 - Research via the Web (see Process for websites)
Task 2 - Create a plan and timeline using Inspiration
Task 3 - Create a 2 week menu plan including recipes for the whole family
Task 4 - Create a 2 week fitness plan for children or adults
Task 5 - Design a healthy lifestyle poster for display at school
Task 6 - Design a healthy lifestyle pamphlet using, for example, Microsoft Publisher
Task 7 - Design a healthy lifestyle Microsoft Powerpoint presentation
Task 8 - Organize a 5 minute healthy lifestyle speech to be presented at class assembly

Process

The below activities are expected to be completed in group. Your teacher will advise you of how much class time you will be given each week to complete the tasks.
You must complete Task 1 and 2 before beginning the other tasks.

Task 1 - Research via the web.
You are required to open the website attachment below and complete the research question sheet in the below attachment. Once you have completed this questionnaire you are required to give it to your teacher before proceeding to the next task.

Task 1 - Question Sheet

Task 2 - Create a plan and timeline using Inspiration.
You are required to complete a timeline for the other 6 activities. Which activity will you complete first and how are you going to complete it, what resources do you need to complete the task? This will need to be checked by your teacher prior to beginning the next chosen task.

Tasks 3 to 8 can be completed in any order.

Tasks 3 and 4 - Create a 2 weekly menu and fitness plan.
Using the table provided by the teacher complete a two weekly food and exercise plan. You can use the websites for healthy food ideas. Make sure you include all your food groups and try to keep your food intake to the recommended amount of serves. For example, 5 serves of vegetables per day. You will also need to include the recommended amount of exercise per week and reflect this in your food and exercise plan. You must attach any recipes on a separate page.

Task 5 - Design a healthy lifestyle poster.
This task requires you to use pictures to represent what a healthy lifestyle means. You may use different pictures from magazines or the internet and stick the pictures on paper provided by your teacher.

Task 6 - Design a healthy lifestyle brochure.
Using the information you have already gathered for your previous tasks you now need to create a brochure. Open Publisher and select an informational style brochure, then enter your ideas and pictures. You can choose to just focus on one area of health like fitness or be more general about healthy lifestyles.

Task 7 - Design a healthy lifestyle presentation using Powerpoint.
Using the information you gathered in your research you need to create a Powerpoint presentation that outlines health and why it is important. Make sure you include in this presentation all the work you have previously done. Your teacher will help you take pictures of your work so it can all be displayed.

Task 8 - Organise a 5 minute presentation on healthy lifestyles.
You can use any of the projects completed in the other tasks to get your message across. For example you may choose to use your Powerpoint presentation.
The presentation must include the following:
- A definition of health
- Why we need to stay healthy
- How we can stay healthy and things we can do to improve our health
- An example of healthy food and different exercise ideas
- What you have learnt from the tasks

Conclusion
Congratulations! You are now an expert on living a healthy lifestyle.
You now know:
• How much of each food group you need to eat to maintain health
• How much exercise is needed to maintain health
• What is listed on a food label and why they are important
• The importance of health in our lives

Websites for Health and Fitness