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Students learn about health by creating healthy snacks, healthy menus, and recording their fat intake with certain foods. In this health lesson plan, students also focus on how exercise can help them stay healthy and loose unhealthy weight.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, and fats? What kinds of foods have these components? Here's a nice introductory lesson on foods and calories that will answer these, and many more questions
Amateur biologists examine the macromolecules that are foundational to life: proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates. This worksheet is composed of five pages of questions and plenty of space to write answers. Learners will explore such topics as the function of nucleic acids, differences between saturated and unsaturated fats, and the roles of different polysaccharides. This makes a handy homework assignment for your AP or college biologists.
Students describe the properties of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. In this health science lesson plan, students identify food sources where these nutrients can be found. They explain how they affect our body.
Learners are introduced to a variety of fats present in foods. As a class, they answer a set of questions and identify the foods which have healthy fats and which ones do not. To end the activity, they practice reading food labels to make healthy choices.
All the basic information about the food nutrient, fat, is in this ten-slide presentation. There are a plenty of good talking points for class discussion. Where do fats come from? Why do we need fat in out diet? Are there good and bad fats? How much fat does a person need to eat? What are the health effects of too much fat in the diet? Guide learners to discover the answer to these questions and many more!
Students investigate foods containing protein. In this protein lesson plan, students explore lesser known foods that contain protein. Students collaborate and explore menus from fast food restaurants analyzing fat content. Students construct a menu of low fat foods from various restaurants.
Students apply math to calculate fat and calories in the food they eat. They examine food package information to become aware of the ingredients and to learn about healthy life styles. They work in groups to create crazy meals using the food labels they bring to school.
Students calculate the amount of carbohydrates, protein and fat in a meal. In this consumer math lesson, students choose a day's worth of meals and calculate the amount of carbohydrates, protein and fat consumed. Students compute the number of calories and the proportion of necessary nutrients in the diet.
Fourth graders examine the fats in foods. For this healthy diet science investigation lesson, 4th graders conduct an experiment in which grease spots from snack foods are observed in order to determine fat contents in the foods.