skip to main content
Join OTAN / Login

Leading adult education through support for and the effective application of technology.

Home Program Areas CCRs Categories

Search

Fast Food Nutrition Calculator: Web Quest

Details

Main Website:
https://www.fastfoodnutrition.org/
Activity Website:
https://www.fastfoodnutrition.org/lesson-plans.php

Activity Description

Use this site to teach students to read and understand fast food nutrition facts. The site allows users to sort and search for the nutrition facts of popular fast food restaurant menu items. Use the Web quest for a class activity or create life-skills reading handouts based on the Web site.

Preparation

  1. Use this site to create materials when teaching about food, health, diet, and nutrition.
  2. Pre-teach needed grammar: comparatives and superlatives and comparing words (more, less, etc).
  3. Teach necessary food label vocabulary (healthy, fat,sodium, cholesterol, carbohydrates, calories, protein, etc.).
  4. If you plan to have students use the site, make sure that it is not blocked at your school and practice using the site yourself to anticipate challenges and difficulties.
  5. Use the Fast Food Nutrition web quest handouts. Quest 1 is appropriate for beginning and intermediate adult ABE students, and Quest 2 can be used with advanced ABE students.
  6. Go through the Web quest yourself to anticipate student difficulties and to find the answers to the questions. An answer key is not provided.

How-To

  1. Handout the Web quest you decided to use.
  2. Have students work individually or in pairs to use the Fast Food Nutrition Calculator to complete the Web quest worksheet.
  3. Demonstrate how to use the site by projecting it.

Teacher Tips

  • The site is also optimized for mobile devices, so students can use the nutrition calculator anywhere. Show them how to use their devices to access the site.
  • The site has advertisements so be sure to teach your students how to avoid them.

More Ways

  • Have students research the nutritional value of a meal that they would typically eat at one of the fast food restaurants and write a report, make a chart, or create an oral presentation on their findings.
  • Students could also use the site information to compare the nutritional value of two menu items at different restaurants, or two complete meals at two different restaurants.

Program Areas

  • ABE: Adult Basic Education

Documents

Tags

reading, writing, calculate, chart, collect data, compare, compare and contrast, comparing food, comparison, contrast, critical thinking, diet, fast food, Fast Food Nutrition Calculator: Web Quest, fast food webquest, food, health, health literacy, healthy, interpret data, label, labels, life skills, math practice, menus, nutrition, nutrition calculator, online reading, online resources, percentages, presentation, reading for information, share, vocabulary
Scroll To Top
Home | About Us | Contact Us | Locate Us | Privacy Policy | Accessibility | Sitemap

OTAN activities are funded by contract CN240137 from the Adult Education Office, in the Career & College Transition Division, California Department of Education, with funds provided through Federal P.L., 105-220, Section 223. However, OTAN content does not necessarily reflect the position of that department or the U.S. Department of Education.