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Fast Food – Healthy or Not?

June 9, 2018 by John R. Sowash

Chromebook Lesson Ideas

Fast Food – Healthy or Not?

About the Project

Help students learn how to make healthy meal choices by researching the nutritional information for common fast-food meals. Students collect information in a spreadsheet, then create a chart comparing fat, calories, sodium, etc. This lesson teaches important spreadsheet and data analysis skills and can be integrated into a math or technology course.

Lesson Overview

Students create a spreadsheet to record the nutritional information of a basic meal from three fast food restaurants (Wendy’s, McDonald’s and Burger King, etc). After the data has been collected, they compare the nutritional content from the three menus and make judgments on which one is the most healthy and what options are best.

If time allows, students can create a graph or chart comparing fat, sodium, calories, etc. Teach students how to create a chart, including important elements such as a key, label, grid lines, etc. Extend the activity by asking students to research a meal made up of their favorite foods.

Tips and Suggestions

Create a template spreadsheet for students that includes columns for all of the necessary information they need to collect. Use Google Classroom to distribute a copy of the template for each student.

Lesson submitted by Mary Hankins, K-5 Technology Teacher, Owosso Public Schools, Michigan.

Lesson Resources

  • Spreadsheet Template
  • Example of a finished assignment
  • McDonald’s nutritional information
  • Wendy’s nutritional information
  • Burger King nutritional information

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Nadine Visscher says

    January 10, 2020 at 2:31 pm

    The link to the template does not work. Would it be possible to share the template? Thank you kindly.

    Reply

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