ACTIVITY No. 1: PENZU

This activity is aimed at elementary students of English.

ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

After working on vocabulary related to healthy food and good eating habits, students will record their eating habits in a journal log using Penzu and then share their daily menu recordings with their teacher using the “share” feature on Penzu. Through the use of Penzu, students will write down their daily eating habits for four days.  They will record this in the Penzu journal and share it with their teacher and classmates after the four days so as to create a poster with  food and drink items that can help young people to have a healthy life.

For this activity, these are the steps to follow:

1.      Create an account in www.penzu.com

2.      Start writing your NUTRITIONAL LOG with your eating habits for four days. Remember that you can insert pictures of what you eat and drink.

3.      You will have to include all your meals and drinks as well as how you distribute them along the day.

4.      Then, once your journal is ready you will save it clikcing on the “Save” button.

5.      After saving your work, you will  click on the “Share” button and type the e-mail addresses of your teacher and  classmates.

6.      Once your work is finished, get ready to discuss your eating habits and the ones of your classmates so as to have a healthy life and prepare a posters about tips to achieve this goal!

7.      Do not forget to create a Word document with the link to your Nutritional Log. Include how you feel working with this tool and send it to your teacher.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Students will be evaluated following the chart below:

	Poor	Good	Very Good	Excellent
Language
Vocabulary
Overall impression
Organization
Mastery of the tool