Fast Food "Slow
Down"
Authors: Barbara Ann Breeden, Vickie Lickliter, and
Pat McKinney
Grade
Levels: 9-11
Subjects: Health, Mathematics, Science, and Language
Arts
Description:
In this unit, the students will
learn how to use the Bio Impedance Analyzer and discover how calories
and energy measurement affect the displacement of the food they eat and will
help them make intelligent choices when eating out.
Lesson One:
Phat Food
Lesson Two: Healthy Writing
Lesson Three: Eat Like An Egyptian
Lesson Four: Foods On Fire
Lesson Five: Fat Fast Foods
Learner Outcomes:
- Analyze their body fat by successfully using the
Bio Impedance Analyzer.
- Analyze their BMI as good/bad
according to a graph and by using the Bio Impedance Analyzer.
- Graph BMI data collected in
the classroom.
- Use a measuring tape to determine
height of each student and convert these measures to metric units of length.
- 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.
- Students will label each section
of the Food Guide Pyramid with the number of servings and food samples.
- Students will categorize the
food from their Food Journals to the appropriate sections of the Food Guide
Pyramid.
- Students will create goals
for personal improvement in their diets.
- Students will analyze combustion
to determine the amount of heat energy released when different snack
foods burn and identify patterns in the calorie or energy content of snack
food.
- Conduct Internet research
on Fast Foods, and identify the target of Fast Food Restaurants.
List two concerns about eating frequently at Fast Food Restaurants.
- Identify three ways of eating
healthy at Fast Food Restaurants.
- Design brochures (tri-fold
handouts) which will explain the brief history of the fast food restaurant,
the types of foods served and the nutritional information on the Basic
Menu.
- Deliver oral presentations
on the nutritional information of Fast Food Restaurant.
- Conduct Internet research
on Fast Foods, and identify the target of Fast Food Restaurants.
- List two concerns about eating
frequently at Fast Food Restaurants.
- Identify three ways of eating
healthy at Fast Food Restaurants.
- Design a fact based brochures
(tri-fold handouts) which will explain the brief history of the fast food
restaurant,
the types of food served and the nutritional information on the Basic Menu.
- Deliver oral presentations
of nutritional information on the Fast Food restaurants.
Duration of Lesson:
Each lesson is two ninety minute
sessions
Job/Career Clusters:
Health and Human Services
West Virginia CSOs:
Algebra Geometry Preparation: AGP.4.1
Health:
HE.HS.3.2, HE.HS.6.1, HE.HS.4.1
Mathematics:
A1.2.4, A1.2.5
Science:
AC.2.3, AC.2.4, AC.2.6, AC.2.7, AC.4.30,
SC.9.3.2
Technology:
TEC.9-12.1.1, TEC.9-12.1.2, TEC.9-12.2.1
Reading Objectives:
RLA.9.1.11
National Standards:
Writing: 1. Uses the general skills and strategies
of the writing process
Key Words: Bio Impedance Analyzer, calories, energy measurement, fast food, food pyramid, BMI
Comments:
Created by:
Mount Hope Elementary and Oak Hill High
Schools
Date created:
Aug.11, 2003
Date Modified:
Aug.14, 2003