Supersize+Me

Your Task:



Bar Graph Maker

In pairs, you are going to research the connection between fast food and geography. As a pair:

1. Use Google Earth to count and gather U.S. information to find the prevalence of fast food outlets in urban, suburban and rural areas including Fairfield, Clinton, Albion and Benton. Pick 1 urban area, 1 suburban, and 1 rural. You choose where you want to look! Use Google Earth layers to turn on "Places" and unselect them all except for the "dining" layer. Then count the number of dining areas that you seen in a certain square area.

2. Make a graphic to show the information that you find. What is the rate of fast food restaurants per square mile in rural areas? Urban? Suburban?

3. Make inferences about the prevalence of fast-food outlets in relation to factors such as population density and geographic locations.

Make a poster, video or powerpoint to represent your findings.

Some resources: http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/archive/2005/10/19/geography_of_fa [|United States of Food] Fast Food and Geography Overweight and Obesity The Geography of Nutrition U.S. Obesity Trends