Understanding Nutrition by Hayleigh McIntire

Target Audience

hayleighmcintire12 — 2025-07-07 14:48:49 UTC

the intended age for the audience of this course is high school through adult.

This would be an introductory course for health and nutrition so students with minimal prior knowledge will benefit most.

Learning Objectives

hayleighmcintire12 — 2025-07-07 15:10:04 UTC

By the end of the MOOC, students will be able to interpret a nutrition facts label with 80% accuracy.

By the end of the MOOC, students will be able to distinguish between healthy and non healthy food habits with 80% accuracy.

By the. end of the MOOC, students will be able to create their own nutrition plan with 80% accuracy.

Instructional Activity 1

hayleighmcintire12 — 2025-07-07 15:22:26 UTC

Video lecture - This lecture will breakdown the parts of a nutrition label. Visuals will be included and students will be able to access the video as many times as they want.

This will help achieve learning objective 1 by explaining each part of a nutrition label.

Instructional Activity 2

hayleighmcintire12 — 2025-07-07 15:27:23 UTC

Drag and Drop activity - students will be sorting healthy and non healthy food into the corresponding category. This would take place after the introduction to healthy and non healthy foods.

This will help achieve learning goal 2 by giving students an opportunity to practice distinguishing foods before an assessment.

Instructional Activity 3

hayleighmcintire12 — 2025-07-07 15:34:58 UTC

Discussion posts - students will have the chance to share ideas and give suggestions to classmates about their nutrition plan.

This will help achieve learning objective 3 by allowing students to get ideas and constructive criticism from their peers/classmates before the project that is being assessed.

Assessments

hayleighmcintire12 — 2025-07-07 15:41:28 UTC

An interactive quiz will be used to evaluate learning objective 2. The quiz will be about healthy and non healthy foods and students will receive immediate feedback when taking the quiz. This will assess if students can distinguish healthy and non healthy foods.

A group project will be used to evaluate learning objective 3. The project will be for students to create a nutrition plan. Students will be in groups of 3 and they will have to rationalize their choices about why they are nutritious.