Overview and Background: Unit: Diet and Exercise

Randy Weber : Cheney USD 268

Physical Education, Wellness. : Health : 7th Grade Health

Cheney : Grades 7 - 7 : Aug. - Jun.

Title:	Diet and Exercise
Topics:	Diet and Exercise
Time Frame:	2 weeks
Start Date:	-
Status:	Draft
Date Revised:

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Summary:
When you exercise, your body burns up the energy it gets from the food you have eaten. If you get too little exercise, you will gain weight. The two keys to weight control and good health are eating a balanced diet and exercising regularly.

Print Materials Needed:
Food Pyramid Guide

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Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	KS
Title:
Standard(s):	Physical Education 5 Identify personal behaviors that support a healthy lifestyle and participate regularly in physical activity that contributes to attainment and maintenance of personal activity goals. Science 6.1 The students will make decisions based on scientific understanding of personal health.

Understandings:
user	Healthy living requires an individual to act on available information about diet and exercise, even if it means breaking bad habits.

Essential Questions:
User	1. What does it mean to eat a "balanced" diet? 2. Could a healthy diet for one person be unhealthy for another? 3. How does exercise affect diet? 4. How can people break unhealthy habits?

Knowledge and Skills:

K
Key terms - protein, fat, calorie, carbohydrate, cholesterol, etc.
Types of foods in each food group & their nutritional values
USDA Pyramid guidelines
4 variables influencing nutritional needs
Health problems caused by poor nutrition

S
Read and interpret nutrition information on food labels
Analyze diets for nutritional value
Plan balanced diets for themselves and others

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Family Meals - Students analyze a family's diet for one week and make recommendations for improving its nutritional value.

Key Criteria
Describe a health problem that could arise as a result of poor nutrition and how it could be avoided. Explain how the amount exercise we do affects the kind of food we consume.

Task/Prompt: Meal analysis

Type: Performance Task

Topics: Diet and Exercise

Summary:
Family Meals - Students analyze a family's diet for one week and make recommendations for improving its nutritional value.

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Internet Resource Links:
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Student Directions:
You have been hired as a nutritionist for a family. You will need to track their meals for 7 days and chart what they eat. Then you will need to prepare a written report that will be given to the family, with recommendations about their eating habits and nutrional needs, based on their 7 day chart. Your report should be clear, accurate and supported by nutritional guidelines.

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Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

W
Post essential questions on board
Give a pre-test and post-test on nutritional facts

H
Each student will bring a healthful snack to enjoy during class and be prepared to explain the nutritional value of their snack.

E
Survey of foods from different ethnic groups.
Search the web for correlations between diet and academic and physical performance.
Chow Down - Students develop a 3-day menu for meals and snacks for an entire family. Their menu must be tasty while meeting the USDA Food Pyramid recommendations. Also, an exercise program that contributes to the individuals healthy life style and will fit into the family's daily routine.

R
Students will compare their family's eating habits with other students and offer suggestions on how they might change to improve the nutritional value of the foods they are eating.

E
Family Meals - Students analyze a family's diet for one week and make recommendations for improving its nutritional value.

Students evaluate if knowledge of nutrition is changing their eating habits and why.
Students will chart their involvement in the exercise plan they have devised.

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