Energy and Individuals

By Gavin Colquitt

Health Topic: Nutrition

Grade Level: 12

QCC:

  • 19. Identifies the benefits of setting personal goals for maintaining a healthy body.
  • 38. Analyzes a variety of weight management plans for sound nutritional practices and their lifelong effects on health.

National Health Standards: 2 & 6

GA Technology Standards:

  • 1. Demonstrates the essential skills for understanding, using, and managing technology tools.
  • 5. Communicates and disseminates technology skills and knowledge in multiple ways.
  • 17. Identifies uses of technology and how it changes and affects the lives of people.

The setting for this lesson is a full computer lab with internet access. The computers will be in rows so the instructor can easily move throughout the entire class. This set up is necessary because the students will be required to navigate several different web sites and use tools located on these websites. They will also be required to interact with these tools so that they are able to find different measures personal healthy, focusing on mandating a healthy body weight.

Energy and Individuals

Gavin Colquitt

Goal Statement:

The student will understand the relationship between ideal body weight and caloric needs.

Objective Statement:

The student will be able to calculate his/her ideal body weight and daily caloric needs.

Anticipatory Set:

Students will be divided into 4 groups: setups, pushups, jumping jacks, and jogging in place. After 3 minutes students will take their heart rate and record it, they will refer to it later in the lesson. This will allow the students to see the activity and effort necessary to elevate their heart rate into their target heart rate zone.

Teach Section

Lesson Concepts:

In order to achieve a healthy lifestyle, we must manage a healthy body weight. This can be done by eating a balanced diet and exercise. However, both exercise and diet needs are different for everyone. We can use certain measurements to determine our body mass index, healthy weight, daily caloric requirement, and necessary activity level.

Lesson Cues:

  1. Importance of maintaining a healthy body weight
  2. Diseases associate with obesity: CVD, diabetes, and cancer
  3. How to find your ideal body weight
  4. Importance of consuming proper calories
  5. Excess calories=weight gain
  6. Factors effecting daily caloric needs: height, weight, gender, and activity level
  7. Importance of exercise
  8. Determining your exercise needs- finding your target heart rate zone
  9. Benefits of exercise on body weight- long and short term

Teacher Modeling:

Instructions:On your computer go the health calculator,

Step 1- select your calculations.

  • Under the WEIGHT category, choose Body Mass Index and Healthy Weight.
  • Under the DAILY REQUIREMENT category, choose Daily Caloric Requirement.
  • Under the HEART category, chooseTarget Heart Rate andActivity.

Step 2- select STANDARD for measurement and your appropriate gender.

Step 3- Enter your personal information.

Enter your accurate height and weight.

Enter your appropriate activity level.

  • Sedentary= no physical activity
  • Light activity= you engage in light physical activity such as walking for at least 20 minutes/day
  • Moderate activity= Engage in cardiovascular and/or strength training at least 1 hour/day
  • Very active= You engage in intense cardiovascular and strength training at least 2-3 hour/day or your job is extremely labor intensive

Enter your frame size.

Enter your age.

Select your predominate type of physical activity.

Questions:

  1. Is your healthy body weight more or less than your actual body weight?
  2. What does the status message say about your body mass index and healthy body weight?
  3. Do you know approximately how many calories you consume each day? If so, doe sit match your daily caloric requirements?
  4. Based on your score for your primary activity level and the length of time you normally spend exercising, about how many calories do you burn each day?

Student activity:

The model that best suits this lesson is the Task Analysis Model. Students will be given a series of steps to follow to find their body mass index, healthy body weight, daily caloric requirements, and target heart rate zones using a health calculator on a website. This activity is appropriate for 12th graders because it challenges them by requiring them to navigate a website and use the tools are offers. The students are capable of performing the basic operations needed to find all of their calculations. The lesson will be taught in a full computer classroom.

Closure:

Take-home assignment: Daily Meal Plan based on caloric needs.

Assignment- Now that you know how many calories you need to take in to maintain a healthy body weight, develop a meal plan for one day based on your daily calorie needs. The meal plan must have the minimum number of servings recommended by the Daily Food Guide Pyramid. Also, identify the number of calories each food item contains with the serving size identified in numbers or units- i.e. 1 cookie, 1 cup, or 20 ounces. Be sure to pay attention to food labels, serving sizes, and calories in beverages. Find the calorie values for your foods by going to search.pl . This will provide you with the calorie content of any food based on portion size. The assignment is due the following class.

Evaluation:

Evaluation will be based on the closure take-home assignment. The Daily Meal Plan assignment will be worth 30 points and will be graded based on the following criteria:

  1. Meal Plan has at least the minimum number of recommended servings: 10 points.
  2. Total number of calories within 100 calories of daily caloric requirements: 10 points.
  3. Serving sizes clearly listed in correct format: 10 points.

Total= 30 points

Re-teach:

Students who do not pass the Daily Meal Plan assignment will receive an in class quiz. The quiz will be based on the same concepts of BMI, healthy body weight, daily caloric requirements, and target heart rate. The students who do not pass the Meal Plan assignment will be paired with a Health Partner, a student who scored 90% or better on the assignment. Students will work on the assignment as a group in class.

Quiz Questions:

  1. Is your healthy body weight more or less than your actual weight?
  2. If your healthy body weight is more than your actual weight, what are some foods that you could eliminate to lower your caloric intake?
  3. If your healthy body weight is less than your actual weight, what are some foods that you could add to your diet to increase your number of daily calories?
  4. Do you think that your BMI score puts you at risk for CVD, diabetes, or cancer? If you think not, argue why you are not at risk?
  5. Write out everything that you ate yesterday. Do you normally eat more or less than your daily caloric requirements?
  6. Cardiovascular exercise has many benefits. Answer the following questions on cardiovascular exercise:
  7. How often do you engage in CV exercise?
  8. What are some different activities that you could incorporate into your routine that would increase your CV exercise?
  9. Does your current CV exercise allow you to work in your target HR?
  10. What are some benefits to working in the upper end of your target HR zone?

Resources:

Sizer, F. and Whitney, E (2003). Nutrition Concepts and Controversies.Belmont,

CA: Thomson/Wadsworth.

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