The following project is currently under progress by Rhode Island teachers. Although in some activities, the teachers have borrowed and adapted ideas from other teachers and current programs and sources on the Internet, the work is their own. The activities are displayed here in their original form , unedited as they have submitted them. In most cases, these are ongoing projects. The names, school districts, and email addresses of the authors are included. Please feel free to contact the authors with any suggestions, comments, or even participation.Teaching and learning are cooperative efforts.
"HOW DOES THE
HUMAN BODY USE ENERGY DURING VARIOUS ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES?"
Title of Lesson Plan :Determining the Amount of Energy That the Human Body Utilizes During Various Athletic Activities.
Grade Level:10-12
Subjects:Biology, Physiology, Math , Nutrition, Computer technology.
Objectives: Students will use web sites to locate information on the top three athletic sporting events from ten different countries around the world. They should be able to calculate the number of calories that an individual burns up during one hour of athletic activity.
- Use the Internet and locate the main three athletic sporting events for ten different countries.
- Search on the web for information that will list the amount of food calories consumed for each sporting event in one hour.
- Develop a spreadsheet with this information and use the computer to graph the data.
- From the data, state conclusions about the number of food
calories consumed per sport and which athletic events require
more energy.
- Students will use e-mail to share food recipes for healthy snacks and to learn about ethnic foods from ten different countries.
- Search the web for information on ethnic foods of the ten countries chosen in the above activity.
- Create a data table listing the country, the main foods or ethnic meals unique to that country.
- Use these diets and determine the number of calories that would be consumed in one day.
- Students will search web sites for data on nutrition, calories, and one's ideal weight for his or her age level.
- Survey a number of students and determine the calorie requirements for boys and girls of different ages.
- Search the web for information on ethnic foods of the ten countries chosen in the above activity.
Using the web sites, students will access material about muscle structure,the mechanism of muscle contraction, and the chemistry involved in maintaining proper muscle physiology.
- Search the web on muscle physiology.
- Determine the basic structure and the process by which muscle cells contract.
- Compose a two page report that can be sent to another class of students through the Internet.
- This activity can be
divided up into several different topics and a newsletter can
be created on muscle physiology and sporting events.
- Students should be able to list those muscles used in the different athletic events for each of the ten different countries.
- They could then post the newsletter on the Internet for other students to read.
- Students should be able to list those muscles used in the different athletic events for each of the ten different countries.
Students will use math to convert the number of Calories they consume to joules and convert their own weight to newtons.
- They will use these labels to represent the force and the amount of work performed.
- From this data, they can determine the distance one could move in an event such as mountain climbing.
- 1 kilocalorie = 4186 joules (a unit of energy)
- 1 pound is ~ 4.5 Newtons (a unit of mass )
- If: Work = Force times Distance
- then Distance = Force (mass of student) / Work (Joules)
- 1 kilocalorie = 4186 joules (a unit of energy)
Use the Internet to locate the name and weight of a famous :
- runner
- basketball player
- football player
- weightlifter
- soccer player
- baseball player
- mountain climber
- volleyball player
- swimmer
- wrestler
Web Sites for searching out information for this project.
- QuestionBox: Hall of Health ( Students pose questions on health which are answered by experts in the field)
- Health and Medicine
- FIC Foundation: A web site on nutrition.
- Southern California Orthopedic Institute: Bone and Muscle Anatomy
- The Sci.Med Nutrition FAQ
- Food Pyramid: tutorial of the basic foods.
- Stretching and Flexibility
- Heart Healthy Recipes from American Heart Association
- HealthNet
- Athletics and Recreation
- Health in Perspective
AUTHORS:
- Aissis, Jerry ride1186@ride.ri.net Central Falls Jr./Sr. High - Central Falls, Rhode Island.