Several years ago, I taught a unit around the film Super Size Me, and it was incredibly successful. I would love to repeat it sometime.
-Students watched the film and recorded important details about Morgan Spurlock's health decline as he trudged through his month of McDonald's.
-Students went on the McDonald's website and analyzed the nutrition info for various foods. (This part required them to do some math, which made me feel very multidisciplinary!). They also looked at how easy/difficult it is to find nutrition info while at McDonald's in person or using the website.
-I would also want students to analyze the message of the film and its possible limitations. For starters, it follows one guy's experience, and his consumption of McDonald's was extreme; there is the McDonald's-only diet on one extreme and veganism (his girlfriend) on the other. Students could look into recent changes in fast food offerings and see how they are improving.
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