Health

=Technology Day: Health=

Internet- pod casts, meal and physical activity assessments at []
 * Technology**

7th Grade- Apply nutrition goals based on dietary guidelines and individual activity needs and can understand the effects of activity, fitness, and nutrition practice; describe dietary guidelines when making food choices
 * Curriculum Standard**

Students will watch podcasts on easy lunch box ideas, snack attacks and physical activity: do something fun. After they will apply thier knowledge creating and tracking their nutrition and physical activity via Foodpyramid Tracker (this counts calories, gives tips on how to eat healthier, how much and what kind of physical activity to do in order to achieve health benefits, etc.) After logging in all of their data they will print it out and turn it in with a paper that explains what their long term nutrition goal was, what short terms goals did they have in order to help achieve their long term goal. Also, it should include what rewards did they give themselves for reaching those goals and if they didn't why not, did they see an improvement on their overall health and in what ways, and did they notice thier nutrition behaviors change and in what ways.
 * Description**

Loyd, E., & Harless, A. Press Release: Johanns Reveals USDA's Steps to a Healthier You. Retrieved March 20, 2010, from United States Department of Agriculture website: []
 * Supportive Resource**

In the report it states that MyPyramid incorporates "recommendations from the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which was released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in January...Many Americans can dramatically improve their overall health by making modest improvements to their diets and by incorporating regular physical activity into their daily lives.”

It's new and innovative becuase it is using the internet but also podcasts and a meal/physical activites tracker to count calories,access activites and how they benefit each other, etc.
 * Tried & True (TT) or New & Innovative (NI)**

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