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Fat Counting

Lesson Three
Classroom Comparison of Fat Intake

  • Brief Description
  • Objectives
  • Materials and Resources
  • Activity Description

  • Brief Description

        Students bring in their fat diaries and work in pairs to calculate their average fat intake per day during the week of data collection. Following this activity, the whole class gathers to calculate their total fat intake and average fat intake per student per week and per day. Each student can compare their average and total fat intake with that of other students in the class, and this can lead to a discussion of different eating habits and possible changes to food intake.

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    Objectives

    Students will:

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    Materials and Resources

        In developing our lessons and activities, we made some assumptions about the hardware and software that would be available in the classroom for teachers who visit the LETSNet Website. We assume that teachers using our Internet-based lessons or activities have a computer (PC or Macintosh) with the necessary hardware components (mouse, keyboard, and monitor) as well as software (operating system, TCP/IP software, networking or dial-up software, e-mail and a World Wide Web client program, preferably Netscape, but perhaps Mosaic or Lynx). In the section below, we specify any "special" hardware or software requirements for a lesson or activity (in addition to those described above) and the level of Internet access required to do the activity.

    1. Special hardware requirements: None.
    2. Special software requirements: None.
    3. Internet access: None.
    4. Classroom materials: Calculators.
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    Activity Description

        Students work in pairs or small groups to calculate their total fat intake for the week, as well as their average fat intake per day. The whole class can total their fat intake for the week and calculate a class average for fat intake per day.

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