How much will you eat during Thanksgiving dinner this Year?

              
Proportion Sizes for chart below
Click on Infographic for Thanksgiving Dinner

Type of Food	Servings (What is the serving size?)	How many calories?	What are they comparing the serving size to?
Vegetables
Salad
Turkey
Gravy
Potatoes
Stuffing
Cornbread
Butter
Cranberry Sauce
Pumpkin Pie	1 small piece	180
Whip Cream	2 TBSP	30

Pick out which ones you will eat and then calculate how many calories you will consume in your Thanksgiving meal.  If you take seconds of any item or think you will eat more than the portion states add some more calories to your amount.

Remember this is what you are supposed to have in one day!

	Inactive	Active	Highly Active
Male 9-15	1800	2100	2600
Female 9-15	1600	2000	2400

Approximately how many calories will you consume?  
Make a list of exercises you will need to do and how long it will take you to exercise to get those calories off.
Exercise to Burn Thanksgiving Day Feast 

Give me 3 reasons why I am having you gather all of this information about Sugar, Thanksgiving Dinner and Exercise?

What type of a message can you relay to other people about the information you learned in the past four days in Science class?

Nutrition Assignment for Monday Nov. 19

 Click on Sugar Infographic to get to the site so you can answer the following questions on a lined sheet of paper.  Please try and get them finished up by Tuesday when you walk in the door because we will be doing another activity tomorrow.


Sugar Infographic:
once you get into the graphic, click on it and it should get a little bigger for you!

1. Give me three REALLY GOOD reasons why there is such a difference in the amount of sugar people consumed in 1822 and 2012.

2. Look at the US Sugar Consumption: Give me two thoughts about the progression of the sugar hill.

3. Give me the details of the average american consumption
    a. How much a week?
    b. How much in a lifetime?
    c. How many skittles is that?
    d. Or enough sugar to fill?

4. How much sugar are you supposed to have in one day?  What does that amount compare to?

5. How much does the average adult have in one day?
6. How much does the average kid have in one day?

7. What are the list of culprits of sugar?

8.  Which of those do you feel like you consume the most of?

9.  How many gallons of soft drinks does the average human consume per year?

10.  How many calories does sugar use up in your diet a day?  

11. Take the amount you found in question 10 and find your activity level in the chart along with the calorie amount that goes with it.  
    Calories from sugar/ (divided by) calories from the chart below.  Then multiply it by 100 to get the percent of sugar used up in your diet.  

What is your percent?

Calculate the percent of calories that would be according to the table below

	Inactive	Active	Highly Active
Male 9-15	1800	2100	2600
Female 9-15	1600	2000	2400

12.  What type of nutritional value does sugar have for you?

13.  Look at the disease and complications of having too much sugar/or other unhealthy habits.  Which of these diseases happen to someone in your family?
14.  How has this information changed your viewpoint about what you eat?  Will this information affect you the rest of your life?  What can you do to make your diet improve now that you know this information?

Monday November 12

Just wanted to say thank you to all the parents who came to conferences last week!

Today: kids finished their graphs and then needed to work on Analysis questions 1-5 for Act. 12.  Whatever they didn't get finished in class they will now have to complete on their own time.  Textbook is under classroom resources on website.

Started working on Act. 13 and this activity is about how companies produce the three types of bottles.  Kids went online and looked at the life cycles of soccer balls, DVD/CD, and a cell phone.  Each of the diagrams talked about how they produce, manufacture, and ship the product, what people do with the product and what happens to the product when finished with it.

Wednesday Nov.7

I have been slacking a bit on the posts I promised for my class. Life is getting in the way!!!

We started a new term and therefore started a new unit. We are working on chemistry until January of next year. Kids will be participating in many hands-on activities again. We have been working on determining which type of material would make a good drink container. They are learning all the advantages and disadvantages of plastic, aluminum and glass. The kids are now making three bar graphs of information they are learning about each product.

The bar graphs are due on Thursday for 1st hour and due Monday during class for 5/6 hrs.