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Project Sketch
 * < **Big Idea:** || Eating Healthier ||
 * < **The Essential Question:** || How healthy are your eating habits? Can you eat healthier? ||
 * < **The Challenge:** || Create a "Recipe Blog" containing healthier versions of popular foods. ||
 * **Guiding Questions:** || How can I change my eating habits to become healthier? How can I change recipes to make them healthier? ||
 * < **Guiding Activities:** || 1. Research the nutrition info for your favorite food and find a way to make it healthier? A. Research nutritional info for 1 each of your favorite: breakfast food, sandwich, entree, side dish, and dessertB. Research what your daily food allowances should be (e.g. calories, fats, sodiums, etc.) Students can use www.mypyramid.gov to find out what their specific food allowances should be. Write a new recipe and add it to your group's blog. ||
 * <  || 2. Review the nutritional information for the menus of 1 dining restaurant and 1 fast food chain and select a meal that you can make healthier. From there, see if you can create home versions of one meal from each. These recipes should be added to your group's blog. ||
 * <  || 3. The challenge is to find ways to make dessert healthy while remaining delicious. Work in groups to reduce the fat and calorie content of a dessert recipe. Prepare the reduced fat recipe as well as the original and hold a taste test for your classmates. Record your classmates answers and track how many correctly guessed the original recipe versus the healthier option. Add the healthy recipe to your group's blog. ||
 * < **Guiding Resources:** || Refer to Diigo links and Annotated Bibliography in GoogleDoc ||
 * < **Solution / Action:** ||  It is possible to make healthier choices when dining and preparing meals without sacrificing taste.   ||
 * < **Assessments:** || Refer to Guided Activity pages ||
 * **Publishing:** || Via the classroom Wikispace or Blog ||