Unit 1: What factors are influencing the childhood obesity epidemic?
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Learning Objectives
- Educators will become aware of the choices that their students make on an everyday basis.
- Educators will determine what factors are influencing childhood obesity in their environment.
Activities
- Educators will have students track their food and activity for a week
1. Student will creating a profile on the Super Tracker website. They creating a profile name, putting in their age, gender, physical activity, height and weight, as well as registering to save their profile.
2. Students will have previously kept track of their food and exercise for a whole 7 days. They will then add both their food intake and exercise into both the Food and Physical Activity tracker sections of the website..
3. Students upon completion of inputting their data will run two reports, one being Food Groups and Calories and the other being Physical Activity. They will be using this data later in the unit.
- Educators will have students analyze their diet and activity.
1. Students will read two articles about obesity, Overweight and Obesity and When Being Overweight Is a Health Problem.
2. Students will the analyze their reports, looking for patterns, be they good or bad.
3. Students will write a paragraph or two about how their diet is influencing their body/health. Educators will then have a chance to read these over, thus getting a better understanding of children/teens diet and activity. Click on this link to respond
Extended Resources
Move to:Unit 2: How is learning being influenced by the childhood obesity epidemic?