TEACHER ENRICHMENT INITIATIVES

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

Downloads:

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

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Activity Code:

5D

Unit Reference:

Corpulosity: A Study of Obesity

Lesson Reference:

Lesson 5: Fat: Out of Balance?

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