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“ Engineering: A Healthier Lifestyle ” Group B: Bellasanta Ferrer

Friday Feedback Session. “ Engineering: A Healthier Lifestyle ” Group B: Bellasanta Ferrer Group Members: Laura Guilfoyle, Shirley Hall, Kyle Miller, Peter Mlot, Melissa Reed, Marge Rockwood

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“ Engineering: A Healthier Lifestyle ” Group B: Bellasanta Ferrer

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  1. Friday Feedback Session “Engineering: A Healthier Lifestyle” Group B: Bellasanta Ferrer Group Members:Laura Guilfoyle, Shirley Hall, Kyle Miller, Peter Mlot, Melissa Reed, Marge Rockwood This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. EEC-0502174. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

  2. Primary Module Enhancements

  3. Primary Adaptations • Go, Grow, Glow—Inquiry/introduction, using pictures and read alouds, to foods and their purpose • Food tastings related to the five senses (pictograph, writing, classification, discussion of fractions) • Creating songs, poetry and drama with healthy living themes • Demonstration and discussion of exercise activities • Planting, observing and predicting growth process from seeds (measurement) • Ethics discussions on recycling and composting—Don’t Be Wasteful

  4. Junior High Module Enhancements

  5. Junior High Adaptations • Inquiry—Science Experiments You can Eat, for example, red cabbage indicator for pH balance • Collaboration with PE teacher to implement exercise resources on Internet • Ethics—Discussion of empty calories and food disorders • Presentations by dentists about oral hygiene • Humans are “Bags of Water”—body composition 90% water

  6. High School Module Enhancements

  7. High School Adaptations • Inquiries—investigations and experiments with proteins, carbohydrates and fats using student-selected food and long-term effects of diet and exercise • Design and improve a cal-o-meter and a long-term diet and exercise plan • Ethics—Super Size Me and discussion of Slow Food Movement • Discussions on how food affects disease prevention and healthy vs. unhealthy foods

  8. Resources Clip Art was taken from the following websites: • www.thepitch.org/ Clip_anim.htm • http://www.melrosedaycarecenter.com/images/Youngchefs.jpg • http://www.kidscare.org/content/projectOfTheMonth/50/CouchPotato.gif • http://www.chp.edu/besafe/images/kids/exercise_heat.gif • http://www.diabetesnsw.com.au/docs/images/foodpyramidcol.gif • http://www.doj.state.wi.us/kidspage/pictures/fruit.gif

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