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The following team activities are
required.
Complete all
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One, Two, Three, Break
TA1-R
Go to any of the websites provided and
individually research why your generation is not expected to live as
long as your parents. The five areas to split between groups and
research are environment, lifestyle, family history, diet, and
education. You are to divide the topics, research your chosen
topic, become an expert on your topic, return to your group, and share
the information you mastered with your group. |
Two questions to answer during your research are:
| What changes have occurred in
(your topic) to so drastically affect our society? |
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What information does every person need to know about you to make
positive choices?
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Following the group discussion, your notes will be collected and graded.
 Website: My Pyramid
Website: Men's Health
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Team 1
Choose 5 unhealthy food items from your high school cafeteria. Using
labels on the foods or the
Website: Calorie
King, determine
the caloric value of each food item (keep in mind serving size).
When caloric value is determined, enter the information into a
spreadsheet document.
Next, take the caloric values and using the
Website: Cool Nurse, find two physical
exercises per food item that an individual must complete to burn off the
calories consumed. Using the spreadsheet already created, enter the
type of activity, the length of activity, and total calories burned by
each specific activity.
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Team 2
Go to the website
Website: My Pyramid to learn how much
daily physical activity is recommended for teenagers. Write 4-5
questions relating to how often and what types of physical activity the teenagers at
your high school take part in. Decide how many students from
each class will be surveyed, including boys and girls in each class.
After
gathering all of the survey information, calculate what percent of the
boys and what percent of the girls meet
or exceed the recommended
requirement of exercise according to the food pyramid. Record this
information on a spreadsheet comparing the pyramid's recommended amount of
exercise for teenagers to the average of those surveyed. Use a bar graph to show
the comparisons to the class.
*Email
Contacts:
Ashley Palmer--PE and
Health Teacher
Jill Bane--Athletic Trainer
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Team 1
Using a
spreadsheet, develop a cost analysis of unhealthy lunch choices versus
healthy
lunch choices. Your food choices must be offered by the school
cafeteria. Gather data for
four lunches--two unhealthy and two healthy. Determine the cost of
each of the four lunches,
find the total cost of each, average the cost of the two types, and discover
whether the healthy lunches cost more or less than the unhealthy lunches.
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The following two team activities are optional.
Team 1
Prepare trivia questions about exercise to be read on the daily announcements.
Team 2
Prepare trivia questions about nutrition to be read on the daily announcements
Website: Healthier
Generation
Nutrition Web sites
Website: Nutritional Data
Website: About Nutrition
Website: BBC - Health
Exercise Web Sites
Website: Exercise Facts
Website: Importance
of exercise
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Brainstorm
TA2-O
Concept Map
Teams 1 and 2
Brainstorm realistic changes that
can be
implemented immediately in the school cafeteria and changes that can be
made next year. After each team's brainstorming session, the teams
will form a large group and share their ideas. A recorder will
document the best ideas.
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