Grade Level(s): 9-11

Subject(s): Math, Health, English/Language Arts,

Learner Outcomes:
        Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to:

• Calculate the amount of daily fat intake needed for their age and gender.
• Keep a diary or daily food journal.
• Modify their daily food consumption.

Duration of Lesson:  Allow one week for students to complete their journals.  Class time will be one 90- minute lesson

Materials:  Computer with Microsoft Office, notebook or teacher-made blank journal page,
                    calculators, Stock Card, timer, and masking tape

Technology tools/Courseware:

Teacher Notes:
     If the teacher decides to do the game activity in the hall, inform other teachers that they will be making noise.

Procedures:

• The students will be given a journal writing assignment.  They are to keep track of all foods they eat or drink for a five day period.  Allow them one week to complete this assignment.  They may use their own notebook to do this or you can give them a handout to use as their journal and as a guide.   If a student fails to do this assignment, give them a practice journal to work with.
• Using their daily journals, the students will group their foods into the six food groups of the Food Pyramid.  They may use the teacher made grouping guide.
• Using the flash card tutorial, the instructor will make cards representing the six food groups.  Students will make a large (five feet by 3 feet) food pyramid (on the floor, out in the hall, in the gym, or outside) using masking tape.  If the instructor has access to six hoola-hoops, he/she could form a pyramid on the floor with the hoops. Before the race, students could review the food pyramid.
• Game rules
• Place the cards on a table or desk at least ten feet from the pyramid.  If possible, place them
• further away.
• Having formed groups of four or five, line one group at a time beside the table and have a relay race.
• Timing the groups, have the first player take a card, walk (not run) to the pyramid and place the card in the appropriate part of the pyramid.  They will walk back to the group and tag the next person who will in turn take the next card and proceed to the food pyramid.  This will continue until all six cards have been placed.
• Check the pyramid for accuracy.  Add five seconds to their total time for each misplaced card.  You could also add time for any member that runs.
• Repeat this until all groups have participated.
• Make sure the other groups are seated away from the pyramid so that they will not see where the cards have been placed and thus gain an advantage on the other groups.
• To make it more challenging, you could have several sets of cards ready and have the students put the appropriate number of servings in the pyramid.  If you do this, make sure you do not put the servings on the back of the cards.
• For those students who cannot participate in the relay due to disabilities, you could make them the score keeper, time keeper, or have them check the pyramids at the end of the race for accuracy.
• As a follow up to this activity, the instructor could discuss how the students felt (physically) after the race and what effects (good/bad) this could have on their health.

Enrichment Activities:
       After the students have grouped their food entries from their journals, they can then visit this site
       to determine if they followed the food pyramid guide successfully and are eating healthy.  If
       Internet access is not available, the teacher could print the guide and distribute it to the students for
       reference.
 

Job/Career Clusters: (as identified by the West Virginia Depart of Education)
                      Health and Human Services

Evaluation/Assessment:

•    Student's journal entry using rubric
•    Group participation
•    Give them ten points for completing the assignment, five for attempting the assignment, and zero points for not doing the assignment.

• Algebra Geometry Preparation: AGP.4.1

 
• Health Behaviors Objectives:  HE.HS.3.2

• Health Standards  (3rd Ed.)

6. Understands essential concepts about nutrition and diet
 

• Mathematics Standards  (3rd Ed.)

3. Uses basic and advanced procedures while performing the processes of computation
4. Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of measurement