Vocabulary

Calorie: A unit of measure, like and inch or pound. Calories measure the amount of energy your body gets from food.

Body Mass Index (BMI) Is a measure of body fat based on height and weight.

Fat A concentrated form of energy. Fat provides 9 calories per gram, more than twice as much energy as protein and carbohydrate.

Carbohydrate The body's most readily available source of energy. Each gram of carbohydrate provides 4calories of energy.

Protein A major component of all body tissue. Your body needs protein to grow and repair itself, and is also a necessary component of hormones, enzymes and hemoglobin.

Lesson 2

Personal Analysis

Instructional Objective

In this lesson, students evaluate their past eating practices by completing internet quizzes for Body Mass Index and Rate Your Diet and/or Rate Your Restaurant Diet.

Time Required

A minimum of one fifty-minute class period for completing the quizzes selected and printing the results for their portfolio.

Assessment

You may assign points for this assignment which meet your needs. As a part of the nutrition portfolio, I assign 20 points for this activity.

Procedures/Activities

Connecting Prior Knowledge/Experience/Learning

This lesson begins with the teacher asking students to think about their own body. What are some opinions about size and shape? At the junior high level, I do not ask for oral response to this question. Teacher explains the quizzes students will be completing will help them have a more accurate assessment of their own body shape/size.

Guided Practice

Teacher demonstrates, on a sample student, how to complete the quizzes on the computer/overhead or LCD. If students are not certain of their weight, I usually have a scale on hand. Care must be taken that students have privacy when they weigh themselves, junior high students are easily embarrassed.

Individual Practice/Homework

Students complete their BMI and Rate your Diet and/or Rate your Restaurant Diet quizzes. Results should be printed as a part of their portfolio.

Extensions

There are numerous quizzes relating to caloric intake, size, etc. which may be completed and added to their portfolio for extra credit points.

 

Advance Preparation/Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills/Illustrative Materials

This activity works best in a technology laboratory or in a classroom where students all have access to a computer individually. The BMI, Rate Your Diet and Rate Your Restaurant Diet websites should be hot-text items on the monitors. (Possibly in a rotation system where students not on computers may be working on another aspect of the assignment.) Using formulas for the quiz is possible with a good deal of teacher input and explanation.