Year 8 Unit 2 Assessment Task 2022 2 2
Year 8 Unit 2 Assessment Task 2022 2 2
Year 8 Unit 2 Assessment Task 2022 2 2
STATEMENT OF INQUIRY:
Considering sustainable resources when designing and communicating effectively to create healthy
meals.
OUTLINE OF TASK
Goal:
Nutrition is a valuable part of life and without it we become susceptible to many debilitating diseases.
You will be assigned one of the following diseases to research in depth looking at how it has evolved and
current media releases and statistics on this topic. Your research should be presented in the Design
Portfolio which will be provided and explained in class.
▪ Obesity
▪ Anorexia nervosa
▪ Bulimia
▪ Anaemia
▪ Dental related diseases
▪ Diabetes
▪ Cardiovascular disease
▪ Dietary Fibre Disorders
MENU DESIGN
▪ i) Develop a daily menu for the allocated group. Include breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.
▪ ii) Analyse the diet (using food choices and other food guides) and justify your choices
▪ iii) Prepare and present ONE part of the menu (Checked by your teacher)
In the RESEARCH section in your design folio, write a persuasive essay to encourage young adults to
follow a prudent diet and healthy lifestyle to reduce diet-related disease in Australia. Focus on one diet-
related disease and reference your evidence to support your arguments and conclusions.
Final Practical Lesson: You are preparing and cooking your healthy dish for your allocated diet-related
disorder during your practical lesson in week 9. You need to design a menu for your target audience and
select one dish to cook from. You are to present and photograph your dish.
You may use an existing recipe BUT you will be required to modify the original recipe. You MUST include
the original recipe in the creative ideas component of your design folio.
MYP Criteria:
0 The student does not reach a standard The student does not reach a standard
described by any of the descriptors below. described by any of the descriptors below.
0 The student does not reach a standard The student does not reach a standard
described by any of the descriptors below. described by any of the descriptors below.
MYP Criteria:
Checklist:
Paragraph explaining and justifying the need
Identifying and prioritizing the research.
Report 1: Inquiry and Analysing
Analysing existing products.
Develop a design brief
Report 2: Developing Ideas Developing a design specification.
Developing design ideas.
Australian International Academy, Kellyville Assessment Task Sheet Adapted from:
Understanding by Design, written by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
Presenting the chosen design.
Developing planning drawings/diagrams.
Evaluation:
Report 1: Inquiring and Analysing
Strengths: Weaknesses
My strengths were when I was doing the I think my weakness would be trying to find
identify and need page because I did very well the recipe was a bit hard because I had to see
in that when thinking about the patient and which meal would be best
researching healthy foods for our patient with
cardiovascular disease.
My strengths for this document were the menu. My weakness would be finding the different
I kept editing it and restarting to make it recipes for our menu.
perfect in the end and in the end, I think I did
well in the menu.
Research:
Skill demonstration: Yes/No Yes/No
Collect, record, verify, analyze and interpret data Yes
Access information to be informed and inform others Yes
Make connections between various sources of information Yes
Find and use appropriate sources Yes
Present information in a variety of formats and platforms Yes
Understand and implement intellectual property rights Yes
Identify primary and secondary resources Yes
Create references and citations and construct a bibliography according to recognized No
conventions
What were your strengths / weaknesses with regards to the requirements for each of the ATL?
I think my strength for this task was my research skills because I did very well when researching to
Find the recipe and my weakness would probably be self-management because I slacked off a bit when
Doing the menu because I kept re-doing it and kept editing it.