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Nutrition and Food Security
Examine the three basic nutrients and their effects on the body. Fifth graders will research data to construct a bar graph and then demonstrate the relationship between malnutrition and food security. This is a very comprehensive...
PLS 3rd Learning
Interpreting Heart Rates During Various Physical Activities
Learners review terminology: pulse, heart rate, target heart rate zone. They work in three groups, and assigned to one of three activity stations. At 5-minute intervals, 4th graders check their pulse and record it on their group...
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Making Logic Out of Madness
Tenth graders organize and interpret data from a student health program. In this physical education lesson, 10th graders use a body composition analyzer over 8 weeks to determine the validity of a student health program. ...
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Interpreting Medical Data
Students explore human anatomy by graphing scientific data. In this vision lesson, students discuss how ophthalmology works and take their own eye assessment test using the Snellen chart. Students collect vision data from all of their...
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The Numbers Tell the Story
Students demonstrate how to gather and interpret statistical data. In this data analysis lesson, students search for statistics on the health effects of smoking and place the information into charts. Students create these charts online...
Baylor College
Body Mass Index (BMI)
How do you calculate your Body Mass Index, and why is this information a valuable indicator of health? Class members discover not only what BMI is and practice calculating it using the height and weight of six fictitious individuals, but...
PBS
U.S. Agricultural Subsidies and Nutrition
Most young people don't spend a lot of time thinking about why some foods cost less than others. This resource uses clips from the documentary, Food, Inc. to explore the impact of agricultural subsidies on nutrition, health, and the...
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Graph Around the Room
Students discuss the importance of taking care of their bodies. They brainstorm ways to take care of their bodies. They create a graph.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Got Lactase? Blood Glucose Data Analysis
Many physicals include a blood glucose test, but what are doctors actually testing? Scholars graph and interpret blood glucose data, allowing them to observe the differences in lactase persistence and draw conclusions. They then connect...
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Death by Particles
Emerging epidemiologists define relative risk and read an article about the effect of particulate pollution on the cardiovascular health of women. They record the relative risk values, graph them, and answer analysis questions. This is a...
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Burger King Investigation
Students study data on the nutritional value of Burger King meals in order to discover its nutritional value and also to compare the meals, using mathematical computation, to the recommended daily diet. In this data handling lesson...
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Guess the Age
Students describe graphically, algebraically and verbally real-world phenomena as functions; identify the independent and the dependent variable. They translate among graphic, algebraic, and verbal representations of relations and graph...
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Nutrition Labels
Students read and interpret nutrition fact labels ("food labels") from food products, a task that involves the use of various mathematics skills (e.g., number concepts and number sense).
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Chicken Pox Math
Second graders are read a story about a boy with chicken pox. As a class, they discuss what to do when you have a contagious disease and identify who in the class has had chicken pox. Using this information, they create a graph and use...
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Heart Smart in a Heart Beat
As an introductory activity, young statisticians measure their heart rate at rest and after exercise and compute the mean and median, and create a box & whisker plot. This is followed by watching a video (that no longer seems...
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The Great Chile Challenge
Fifth graders gather data, create a graph, and interpret information. They build vocabulary by negotiating the ideas that go into the graphs which they create. They use Excel to print a variety of graphs based on how much they like Chile...
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Healthy Foods
Students illustrate their favorite food and add it to a food pyramid graph, after listening to Russell Hoban's story, Bread and Jam for Frances.
Florida Department of Health
Mental and Emotional Health Education Unit
Stressed out? To begin a mental and emotional health unit, participants take a stress test to determine their level of stress. They study the effects of stress, identify sources of stress in their lives, and learn different ways to...
Florida Department of Health
Safe and Happy: Safety for All at School and Online Unit
Bystander or upstander and advocate? Three lessons have high schoolers investigating data about bullying and school safety. Participants then learn how to take a stand against bullying and use what they have learned to create a PSA to...
Florida Department of Health
Nutrition: Developing Healthy Habits Unit
The focus of the fourth unit in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey Curriculum is on healthy eating and exercise. Class members examine healthy habits data from the YRBD Youth Online Tool, learn about the importance of a healthy diet and...
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What Can a Map Tell You?
Young scholars investigate how maps can provide useful information about health issues. They study a map to draw conclusions about cholera death in London.
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Cardiac Function
In this health worksheet, students look for the connections needed to attain the knowledge of cardiac function. The sheet includes the background information.
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HEART THROBS
Middle schoolers predict what might happen to their pulse rates after physical exertion and then make conclusions about the effects of physical activity on pulse rates.
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Asthma Survey
Students collect survey data on the prevalence of asthma in a community. They summarize and display the survey data in ways that show meaning.
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