Web Quest

Process

1. Choosing Teams and Brainstorming

The class will be divided into teams of 3. Choose a name for your team.

Click the 'Evaluation' link at the top of this page, then click the 'General Evaluation Sheet' link. Print three copies of the sheet - one for each member of your team. Keep this sheet with you whenever you work on a task and as you complete each step of this process, record your points on the sheet. It is part of your assessment and will need to be handed to your teacher at the end.

Now open the Meals Brainstorm Sheet, and use it to record a brainstormed list of your team's favorite breakfast, lunch and dinner meals as well as snacks. Make a photocopy of your completed sheet for each member of your team.

2. Choosing Experts

a Each member of your team must now choose to become an 'expert' in one of 3 areas:

(1) Nutrition
(Requires reading & comprehension of some complex ideas)

(2) Prices
(Requires calculation
skills and logical thinking.)

(3) Recipes
(Requires reading and
copy & paste skills)

b Now print the evaluation sheet for the 'Expert Area' you chose. As you complete your 'expert' tasks, record your points on your Expert Evaluation sheet, which needs to be handed to your teacher along with your General Evaluation sheet at the end.

3. Becoming Expert

You will all now leave your teams and join up with at least 2 other students
who have chosen the same expert area.

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It's time for investigations to begin!

Work with your new expert group to learn everything you can about either the nutrition, prices or recipes for foods on your brainstormed lists. Remember to record important things your group learns.

Nutrition group click here for help in your investigations.

Prices group click here for help in your investigations.

Recipe group click here for help in your investigations.

4. Reporting back to your team

Everyone now returns to their home teams and:

Each expert teaches their team what they have learnt.

Each team member must listen carefully to their team experts. Be sure to ask them questions if there's anything you don't fully understand.

5. Team's Menu / Price Finalization

Open the Catering Chart that your Recipe Expert has saved for your team. Review the meals he or she typed in. If any meals are too expensive or not nutritious enough, or need more variety, make changes.

In the 'Food Item' column, list each food item that will be in your meal. In the next column type its price. In the next column type the quantity you will need E.g. A Kg bag of carrots / $1.78 / 1. The Excel Chart will automatically fill in the extended price. Note: Don't forget to list each ingredient for the recipes you use. You will most likely need to insert extra rows to fit in all the food items for each meal.

After you've listed the food items, quantities and prices for each meal, find the total cost by dragging the mouse down the 'Extended Price' column till you get to the bottom of your list, then clicking the 'auto sum' symbol

on the toolbar. If the total exceeds $1000, you'll need to make changes to your meals until the total is no more than $1000.

6. Preparing your Team's Catering Presentation

Having worked out the meals you will be serving and ensured that the total food bill does not exceed $1000, your team now needs to decide how to present this information. Charts, posters, computer slideshows etc are all useful.

Click the 'Task' link at the top or bottom of this page and review what information needs to be included in your presentation. Visual aids you use should be attractive and easy to read and understand. Your menu suggestions should be interesting and include convincing reasons for why they were chosen - for example nutritional information.

Make sure everyone in your group plays an equal part in the presentation of your Catering Plan to the class. Team members should rehearse their parts in front of their team before the team presents to the class.
Remember the class will be voting on the best catering plan, which will then be presented to the Principal.