BREAKFAST AND SNACKING HABITS OF TEENS
SURVEY AND REPORT

•	explain why it is important to eat a nutritious breakfast

•	describe the role of healthy snacking in achieving and maintaining health
•	formulate effective questions to guide your research

•	assess various aspects of information gathered from primary sources
•	record and organize information
•	analyse and interpret research, formulate conclusions
•	clearly communicate the results

Purpose: 	
To find out how healthy or unhealthy breakfast and snacking habits of teens are by conducting a survey and reporting the findings.

Tasks:

 	In groups of 2 or 3 create a survey that will find out about the breakfast and snacking habits of teens.

 			Ask gender and age at the top of the survey.

 			10 questions (must include multiple choice, scale and ranking ).

 			Questions must be approved by teacher.

 			Distribute surveys to 10 students .
			(focus on a particular group, e.g. grade 10 students, all female).

 	Create a tally sheet and determine percentages 
	(e.g. 70% of teens surveyed never eat breakfast)

 	Write a report, create a video, or create a slide show and present your findings.

 			Share results from questions and provide two graphs as visuals.
 			Draw conclusions (overall do you feel breakfast and snacking habits of teens are healthy and why).
 			Explain how you would encourage teens to eat a healthy breakfast and make better snack choices (Be specific by providing examples).

To Be Handed In:

 	Completed surveys
 	Tally sheet
 	Written report if selected
 	Participation breakdown of group members

Breakfast and Snacking Habits of Teens Survey and Report Rubric:

	Level 4	Level 3	Level 2	Level 1	
Knowledge / Understanding
-understanding of breakfast and snacking habits of teens	- demonstrates a high degree of understanding of breakfast and snacking habits of teens	demonstrates considerable understanding of breakfast and snacking habits of teens	demonstrates some understanding of breakfast and snacking habits of teens	demonstrates limited understanding of breakfast and snacking habits of teens	
Thinking
Planning and Processing Skills
-formulation of survey questions, organization of information, interpreting data, drawing conclusions	-uses planning and processing skills with a high degree of effectiveness	-uses planning and processing skills with considerable effectiveness	-uses planning and processing skills with some effectiveness	-uses planning and processing skills with limited effectiveness	
Communication
-organization and expression of results and recommendations in written or oral form
	-organizes and expresses results and recommendations with a high degree of effectiveness	-organizes and expresses results and recommendations with considerable effectiveness	-organizes and expresses results and recommendations with some effectiveness 	-organizes and expresses results and recommendations with limited effectiveness	
Application 
-connections made between results and recommendations as to how teens can improve breakfast and snacking habits	-able to recommend changes for breakfast and snacking choices with a high degree of effectiveness	-able to recommend changes for breakfast and snacking choices with considerable effectiveness	-able to recommend changes  for breakfast and snacking choices with some effectiveness	-able to recommend changes for breakfast and snacking choices with limited effectiveness