Part #1: One-Day Food Journal

Name______Period_____

MyPlate

Performance Task (CC.9-10.R.ST.3): As you complete this activity, you must be able to precisely follow the multi-step procedures written throughout this project while performing the technical task of analyzing your one-day meal plan.

Part #1: One-day Food Journal

Directions: In the table below, create a one-day food journal for yourself. As you log your food intake, be very specific with your food choices, including food amounts (cups, ounces, etc.) and characteristics (fat-free, whole-grain, etc.). Be sure to include all beverages as they count towards your daily calorie intake.

Meal Food item/amount Poor Example: 1 bowl cereal with milk High Quality Example: ¾ c. Honey Nut Cheerios with ½ c. milk (2%) Breakfast

Dinner

Part #2: Locating Information within Choosemyplate.gov Directions: Log onto http://www.choosemyplate.gov/. Click on the “MyPlate” tab which is located in the upper left corner of the web page. Click on each “Food Group” to complete the following tables, as you learn about the specific food groups in MyPlate:

Fruits My daily recommended Example Serving size amount of fruit

Vegetables My daily recommended Example Serving size amount of vegetables

Grains My daily recommended Example Serving size amount of whole grains

My daily recommended amount of refined grains

Dairy My daily recommended Example Serving size amount of dairy

Protein Foods My daily recommended Example Serving size amount of protein foods

Part #3a: Locating Information within Choosemyplate.gov

Directions: Log onto http://www.choosemyplate.gov/, Click on the “Physical Activity” tab which is located near the top left. Navigate through the Physical Activity section of the site to answer the following questions.

1. How much time should an average teenager spend being physically active each week?

2. In the categories below, list three activities that you have participated in/would like to participate in?

 Moderate Activity

 Vigorous Activity

3. How many hours a day are you physically active and are your activities moderate or vigorous? Part #3b: MyPlate SuperTracker Activity

Directions: Analyze the one-day meal plan you have created by using the SuperTracker feature on www.choosemyplate.gov. First, visit the site and click on the “SuperTracker” link in the blue box near the bottom of the web page which reads, “The SuperTracker can help you plan, analyze, and tracker your diet and physical activity.” Next, click “Create Profile,” follow the on-screen prompts to create an individual profile, and record your username, password, and profile name below.

Username:______

Password:______

Profile Name:______

Make sure that you are logged in by locating your chosen “profile name” on the screen. Now click on the “Food Tracker >” link and enter the food items from your one-day meal plan using today’s date (do not change the date throughout this activity). As you enter these food items, watch the graph and daily food limits on the right side of the screen as SuperTracker calculates your food group totals and daily limits.

If you cannot find certain food items in SuperTracker, find the closest alternative possible. For example, you will not find chicken parmesan in SuperTracker. Instead, you would need to look up “chicken” and select the most appropriate type from the list. This would probably be the option that reads, “chicken, breast, baked, skinless, breaded, breading eaten.” You would then need to look up the marinara sauce and cheese that covered the chicken to make the dish chicken parmesan (of course, you probably ate pasta with it, so you would need to look that up separately too).

Once your entire one-day meal plan has been entered into SuperTracker, click on “View By Meal” under the bar graph, check that the dates in the “View Report from:” section matches the date you used previously for this one-day meal plan. Print this page. Bring the report to your teacher and ask for Part #4. Name______Period______/20 points

Part #4: Summarizing Food Journal and Physical Activity

Performance Task (CC.9-10.R.ST.7): Using the reports you created from the MyPlate website as well as the bar graph on the site; synthesize the information to summarize your findings.

Directions: Type a summary adhering to the guidelines below. You will be assessed on paragraph development as well as accurate analysis. Remember that a well-written paragraph should include a topic sentence, supporting evidence, and a conclusion.

Paragraph 1:  analyze your reports from MyPlate, citing two positives and one negative regarding your one-day food journal (5 points)

Paragraph 2:  write specific food recommendations to align your one-day food journal with your daily targets according to MyPlate (5 points)

Paragraph 3:  analyze your typical daily physical activity input and write recommendations to align your physical activity with MyPlate recommendations (5 points)

Paragraph 4:  write an explanation of what you learned throughout this project and how you plan to use this information in the future (5 points)

Name______Period______/20 points