Young Consumers

• Introduction
• Task
• Process
• Evaluation
• Conclusion
• Credits


• Teacher Page

Task

                                              
    Do you want to pretend to be a grown-up?  How about being a Mom or a Dad in charge of buying food for your family?  This is your chance to do that!  Your task is to create a meal plan for 4 days and to gather enough food for your family of 4.  Be sure to create a meal plan that is healthy and nutritious.  You will only have $100 in which to buy all the food you need.  In addition, you should create a grocery list to give to your teacher, along with your grocery receipts and your final meal plan. You will visit several websites to find out nutrition facts as well visiting the Shop Rite website to gather the food you need!

In order to complete your task, you will all be working together but you should also decide which role you want to have during this activity. These jobs are:

Nutritionist - responsible for analyzing and organizing all the different types of food within the budget. Making sure all foods are part of the food pyramid or are healthy based on the websites.

Grocer - responsible for organizing the list and where all the foods are located within the grocery store. Planning a shopping route throughout the store.

Banker - organizes and list prices of food and figures out actual budget of list