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Activity 5D: What’s Behind the Meal Deal?
One Meal Deal Card describing complete meals will be selected by a student from each group. The group will define calories; collect data on food eaten and total number of calories eaten in the “meal”; and investigate how to maintain an energy balance to control weight gain and/or loss. Students will be able to apply what they learned to their personal food choices.
Objectives:
- Determine their caloric needs
- Determine caloric values of food items
- Graph caloric values of meals
- Modify the caloric value of meals to more closely match their caloric needs
Teacher Background Information 5D- Teacher Administrative Information 5D
- Teacher Task Cards 5D
- Teacher Answer Key 5D
- Student Background Information 5D
- Student Meal Deal Cards 5D
- Student Data Pages 5D
- Student Processing Out Questions 5D
Keywords:
Food calorie, food pyramid, caloric need, caloric value, calorie, energy balance, weight, food choice
Activity Code:
5DUnit Reference:
Corpulosity: A Study of ObesityLesson Reference:
Lesson 5: Fat: Out of Balance?