Planet Health: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity Second Edition [Multiple-component retail product]

A Letter to Teachers		viii
How to Use the CD-ROM		x
Acknowledgments		xi
Section 1 Implementing Planet Health In Your School		1	(16)
Section 2 Classroom Lessons		17	(6)
PART I Foundation Lessons for Students		23	(46)
Lesson 1 Do You Make Space for Fitness and Nutrition?		25	(29)
Lesson 2 Power Down: Charting Screen Time		54	(15)
PART II Language Arts		69	(82)
Lesson 3 Food Power		71	(18)
Lesson 4 Carbohydrate: Energy Food		89	(16)
Lesson 5 The Language of Food		105	(8)
Lesson 6 Keep It Local		113	(7)
Lesson 7 Write a Fable: Important Messages About Activity		120	(11)
Lesson 8 Go for the Goal		131	(6)
Lesson 9 Lifetime Physical Activities: Research One, Describe One, Try One!		137	(7)
Lesson 10 Choosing Healthy Foods		144	(7)
PART III Math		151	(90)
Lesson 11 Problem Solving: Making Healthy Choices		153	(16)
Lesson 12 Figuring Out Fat		169	(10)
Lesson 13 Looking for Patterns: What's for Lunch?		179	(21)
Lesson 14 Apples, Oranges, and Zucchini: An Algebra Party		200	(4)
Lesson 15 Plotting Coordinate Graphs: What Does Your Day Look Like?		204	(12)
Lesson 16 Survey the Class		216	(6)
Lesson 17 Circle Graphs: Where Did the Day Go?		222	(11)
Lesson 18 Energy Equations		233	(8)
PART IV Science		241	(128)
Lesson 19 Passing the Sugar		243	(16)
Lesson 20 Mighty Minerals: Calcium and Iron		259	(23)
Lesson 21 Fat Functions		282	(12)
Lesson 22 Smart Snacks		294	(17)
Lesson 23 The Plants We Eat		311	(14)
Lesson 24 Foods for Energy		325	(12)
Lesson 25 Muscle Mysteries		337	(14)
Lesson 26 The Human Heart		351	(9)
Lesson 27 How Far Can You Jump?		360	(9)
PART V Social Studies		369	(82)
Lesson 28 Food Through the Ages		371	(11)
Lesson 29 Democracy and Diet		382	(9)
Lesson 30 Global Foods		391	(13)
Lesson 31 Around the World With Five a Day		404	(9)
Lesson 32 Map Maker		413	(8)
Lesson 33 Free to Be Fit		421	(5)
Lesson 34 Impact of Technology		426	(11)
Lesson 35 Food Rituals and Society		437	(7)
Section 3 Physical Education Microunits		444	(7)
PART VI Introducing Exercise and Fitness		451	(10)
PE Microunit 1 Thinking About Activity, Exercise, and Fitness		453	(3)
PE Microunit 2 Warm Up Before You Exercise		456	(2)
PE Microunit 3 Cool Down After You Exercise		458	(3)
PART VII FitCheck		461	(22)
PE Microunit 4 Charting Your FitScore, Fit * Score, and SitScore		471	(3)
PE Microunit 5 What Could You Do Instead of Watching TV?		474	(2)
PE Microunit 6 Making Time to Stay Fit		476	(3)
PE Microunit 7 Setting Goals for Personal Fitness		479	(4)
PART VIII Getting Started		483	(16)
PE Microunit 8 Let's Get Started on Being Fit		485	(3)
PE Microunit 9 More About the Three Areas of Physical Fitness		488	(2)
PE Microunit 10 Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type		490	(3)
PE Microunit 11 Choose Activities You Think Are Fun		493	(2)
PE Microunit 12 How Often Should I Exercise?		495	(4)
PART IX Improving Fitness		499	(10)
PE Microunit 13 Improving Cardiorespiratory Endurance		501	(3)
PE Microunit 14 Improving Muscular Strength		504	(3)
PE Microunit 15 Improving Flexibility		507	(2)
PART X Measuring Fitness		509	(10)
PE Microunit 16 Improving Your Overall Physical Fitness Levels		511	(2)
PE Microunit 17 Knowing Your Resting Heart Rate		513	(2)
PE Microunit 18 Exercise Makes Your Heart Beat Faster		515	(4)
PART XI Be Active Now!		519	(10)
PE Microunit 19 Be Active Now for a Healthy Heart Later		521	(2)
PE Microunit 20 Be Active Now for Healthy Bones Later		523	(3)
PE Microunit 21 Be Active Now to Stay in Shape		526	(3)
PART XII Get Ready to Exercise		529	(12)
PE Microunit 22 Energy for Exercise		531	(2)
PE Microunit 23 Weather and Exercise		533	(3)
PE Microunit 24 Getting Enough to Drink		536	(3)
PE Microunit 25 Food and Supplement Myths		539	(2)
PART XIII Fitness Is Fun!		541	(16)
PE Microunit 26 Dance for Fitness		543	(2)
PE Microunit 27 Calisthenics		545	(2)
PE Microunit 28 Running, Jogging, and Fitness Walking		547	(2)
PE Microunit 29 Swimming		549	(2)
PE Microunit 30 Cycling		551	(3)
PE Microunit 31 Yoga		554	(3)
Appendix A Nutrition Resources		557	(7)
Appendix B Physical Activity Resources		564	(3)
Appendix C Television Viewing and Other Screen Time Resources		567	(2)
Appendix D Social Studies Resources		569	(2)
Appendix E Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks		571	(7)
About the Authors		578	(2)
CD-ROM User Instructions		580

Jill Carter, MA, EdM, is wellness coordinator for Boston Public Schools. For the past 10 years, she has worked on curriculum development, implementation, training, and research of school-based nutrition and physical activity programs. From 1996 to 1997 she was the curriculum development coordinator for the School-Based Wellness Initiative in the department of health and social behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health. Ms. Carter's years of experience as a high school and middle school science teacher provided her with the experience to design a curriculum that encourages active, inquiry-based learning across multiple disciplines. She earned her master of education degree in teaching and curriculum from Harvard University and her master of arts degree in exercise physiology from the University of Iowa.

Jean Wiecha, PhD, is a senior research scientist for the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Wiecha's research focuses on improving children's nutrition and physical activity habits. She has been working in the field for over 20 years and has published numerous studies on child nutrition and prevention of obesity. From 1994 to 1997, as a project director for the School-Based Wellness Initiative in the department of health and social behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health, she managed the federal research grant to develop, implement, and evaluate Planet Health. Dr. Wiecha earned her doctoral and master of science degrees in human nutrition from Tufts University.

Karen E. Peterson, ScD, is an associate professor of nutrition in the departments of nutrition and of society, human development and health at the Harvard School of Public Health. As director of public health nutrition, she oversees a program of translational research and graduate training focused on solving nutrition-related public health problems through leadership, innovation, and partnership. She draws from 15 years of experience counseling and administering nutrition services for children in clinical, community, and state health care settings. Dr. Peterson was coprincipal investigator of the Planet Health intervention trial. She earned her doctorate in nutrition from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Suzanne Nobrega, MS, is an independent project consultant in health communications and is project manager for a worksite health promotion intervention study. Both her master of science and bachelor of science degrees are in nutritional science, and she has over 15 years of experience in program management and materials development for health promotion programs aimed at children and families.

Steven L. Gortmaker, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the department of health and social behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health and principal investigator and director of the Harvard Research Prevention Center. He was also principal investigator of the Planet Health intervention trial. For the past 20 years, he has researched and practiced in the areas of children's nutrition and physical activity and has published more than 80 research articles. He was involved in early studies to document the increase of obesity in young people and television viewing as a cause of obesity. He earned his doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.