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Calories Lesson Plans
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Students examine food labels and study serving size and calories. In this healthy eating lesson students complete several activities to understand food labels.
Students measure the amount of calories in food. In this food energy lesson, students discuss what a calorie is, how our bodies use a calorie, and how many we need. Then, students use a calorimeter to calculate the amount of energy in a food item.
Identify the different types of graphs and when they are used. Learners will research a specific health issue facing teens today. They then develop a survey, collect and analyze data and present their findings in class. This is a lesson on mathematical techniques, but a collaboration with another subject area teacher would be useful to the students.
Students calculate the calories in the food they eat. In this health science lesson, students record everything they eat and drink for a day. They identify the total calories they use daily using the activity chart provided.
Students explore food and calorie consumption. In this nutrition and math instructional activity, students complete a daily food journal, compute the amount of calories they consumed, and evaluate their food choices.
Sixth graders investigate the causes and treatment of obesity. In this health instructional activity, 6th graders read about obesity on suggested websites and find their body mass index by measuring their height and weight. Students calculate their caloric intake for one day.
Students help create a Health Wheel: a personal, inspirationally based, self-care plan for preventing or managing diabetes in daily life. They (student or client) researches the causes of diabetes, and creates a "health wheel" that reflects their personal creativity, commitment and desires to manage their diabetes (or diabetes prevention).
Students explore why Americans failed to meet health goals for the year 2000 and ways in which Americans can shape up to meet the 2010 goals. They maintain a food and exercise diary for one week, evaluate their nutrition and exercise habits.
Students examine the relationship between food and exercise. In this nutrition lesson, students watch a power point on how to determine serving sizes and total number of calories. They use empty food boxes to explain nutritional tables. They determine the total number of calories they consumed over the weekend and the calories they worked off.
Students explore the concept of calories. In this calories lesson, students calculate their Basal Metabolic Rate. Students determine the number of calories they burn each day. Students use a conversion factor of fat to calories to determine how many calories they must cut out to lose weight over the course of a week.
