1. Eating Disorder a Time in the Life Requirements – Grade 8
A Time in the Life
Create a fictional character which suffers from an eating disorder and friends/family members to demonstrate your
knowledge and understanding of the subject matter. You will have to be creative to show and describe the information
required below. It should be clear to the audience who is the sufferer and who are the friend/family members giving the
advice.
Project Requirements:
 Present the Eating Disorder in a media of your choice. (Comic Life, power point, prezi, poster, or brochure,
animation, diary).
 Accurate information about Anorexia Nervosa OR Bulimia Nervosa OR Binge Eating (teacher to decide which one
you do) information to be included:
Content Requirements
1. Signs that someone is developing an eating disorder
2. Short term health consequences
3. Long term health consequences
4. Treatments
5. Advice about how you can help a friend who you think is developing a disorder
6. Advice about healthy eating habits
7. Advice about how to control a healthy body weight
 Information Technology (IT) – Each end product must utilize IT in the creation of the display area. This could be in the
form of excel tables/graphs, images, etc.
 Visual Aids – The end product should be visually appealing and make use of appropriate information, graphics, photos,
models, and/or charts to inform the audience.
 Bibliography (MLA format) – reliable sources used and cited.
Students will have three full class periods to work on this project.
Recommended websites:
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Eating-disorders/Pages/Introduction.aspx
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinfoforall/problems/eatingdisorders/eatingdisorders.aspx
http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/eat_disorder.html
http://www.b-eat.co.uk/

2. Eating Disorder A Time in the Life – Grade 8 – 30 points/Letter grade
Standard 4 Students will understand that advocating for personal, family and community health promotes healthy behaviors
and choices.
7 6
Exemplary
5 4
Proficient
3 2
Developing
1
Emerging
Knowledge and
Understanding
Accurate Information
M.W4.1 state a health
enhancing position on a
topic and support it with
accurate information
M.W4.2 demonstrate how
to influence and support
others to make positive
health choices
Includes all the project
requirements. Gives the
audience a clear sense of
the main idea.
Information is accurate,
current and comes
mainly from excellent
sources.
Meets most of the
project requirements.
Includes persuasive
information from
reliable sources.
Meets very few of the
project requirements.
Some of the information
may not seem to fit.
Sources used appear
unreliable.
Information is
incomplete, out of
date and/or incorrect.
Sequencing of ideas
is unclear.
Transfer of Knowledge
Comic/ Story Line
Story line contains
highly complex material
is simplified and made
accessible through very
effective synthesis. The
audience is left with a
deeper understanding of
the illness.
Very high degree of
knowledge about entire
topic

The story contains
rich and useful
information distilled
into an accessible
form. The audience is
left with a sense of
satisfaction and
understanding
regarding what has
been learned and/or
the direction it might
provide.
 Good knowledge
about topic, but only
for part that was
researched.
 It contains material that is
superficial, OR highly
complicated and hard to
discern OR useful material
that is not easy to use in its
current form. The
audience is left without a
clear sense of the illness.

 Minimal amount of
knowledge about topic
Story line does not
provide an overview
of the topic.
Had no knowledge of
the topic
Communication
Creativity
 Design
 Organization
 Neatness
 Style
 Use of visuals
 Design of the end
product is extremely
eye-catching
 Very well organized and
neatly done
 Shows imagination,
insight and style
Makes excellent use of
pictures, slogans, facts
and figures
 Design of the end
product is eye-catching
 Organized and neatly
done
 Shows signs of style
Makes good use of
pictures, slogans,
facts and figures
 Design of the end product
needs more thought
 Some signs of
 Design of the end
organization and neatness
Needs to refer to pictures,
slogans, facts and figures
product is rushed and
incomplete
 Lacking organization
and neatness
Needs to include
more pictures,
slogans, facts and
figures
Knowledge and
Understanding
Research /
Bibliography
MLA Format
Accurately researched a
variety of information.
Used four or more
resources, recorded and
interpreted significant
facts, meaningful
graphics and evaluated
alternative points of
view.
Correct MLA format.
Recorded relevant
information from
multiple sources of
information,
evaluated and
synthesized relevant
information.
A few errors in the
MLA formatting.
Bibliography indicates you
misinterpreted statements,
graphics and questions and
failed to identify relevant
arguments.
Many errors in the MLA
formatting.
Bibliography
indicates you didn’t
recorded information
from four or fewer
resources did not find
graphics and ignored
alternative points of
view.
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