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Title Planet health : an interdisciplinary curriculum for teaching middle school nutrition and physical activity / Jill Carter ... [and others]
Edition Second edition
Published Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2007]
©2007

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 W'BOOL  613.20712 Car/Pha 2007  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 580 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Contents Sect. 1. Implementing Planet Health in Your School -- Sect. 2. Classroom Lessons -- Pt. I. Foundation Lessons for Students -- Lesson 1. Do You Make Space for Fitness and Nutrition? -- Lesson 2. Power Down: Charting Screen Time -- Pt. II. Language Arts -- Lesson 3. Food Power -- Lesson 4. Carbohydrate: Energy Food -- Lesson 5. The Language of Food -- Lesson 6. Keep It Local -- Lesson 7. Write a Fable: Important Messages About Activity -- Lesson 8. Go for the Goal -- Lesson 9. Lifetime Physical Activities: Research One, Describe One, Try One! -- Lesson 10. Choosing Healthy Foods -- Pt. III. Math -- Lesson 11. Problem Solving: Making Healthy Choices -- Lesson 12. Figuring Out Fat -- Lesson 13. Looking for Patterns: What's for Lunch? -- Lesson 14. Apples, Oranges, and Zucchini: An Algebra Party -- Lesson 15. Plotting Coordinate Graphs: What Does Your Day Look Like? -- Lesson 16. Survey the Class -- Lesson 17. Circle Graphs: Where Did the Day Go? -- Lesson 18. Energy Equations -- Pt. IV. Science -- Lesson 19. Passing the Sugar -- Lesson 20. Mighty Minerals: Calcium and Iron -- Lesson 21. Fat Functions -- Lesson 22. Smart Snacks -- Lesson 23. The Plants We Eat -- Lesson 24. Foods for Energy -- Lesson 25. Muscle Mysteries -- Lesson 26. The Human Heart -- Lesson 27. How Far Can You Jump? -- Pt. V. Social Studies -- Lesson 28. Food Through the Ages -- Lesson 29. Democracy and Diet -- Lesson 30. Global Foods -- Lesson 31. Around the World With Five a Day -- Lesson 32. Map Maker -- Lesson 33. Free to Be Fit -- Lesson 34. Impact of Technology -- Lesson 35. Food Rituals and Society -- Sect. 3. Physical Education Microunits -- Pt. VI. Introducing Exercise and Fitness -- PE Microunit 1. Thinking About Activity, Exercise, and Fitness -- PE Microunit 2. Warm Up before You Exercise -- PE Microunit 3. Cool Down After You Exercise -- Pt. VII. FitCheck -- PE Microunit 4. Charting Your FitScore, Fit [star] Score, and SitScore -- PE Microunit 5. What Could You Do Instead of Watching TV? -- PE Microunit 6. Making Time to Stay Fit -- PE Microunit 7. Setting Goals for Personal Fitness -- Pt. VIII. Getting Started -- PE Microunit 8. Let's Get Started on Being Fit -- PE Microunit 9. More About the Three Areas of Physical Fitness -- PE Microunit 10. Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type -- PE Microunit 11. Choose Activities You Think Are Fun -- PE Microunit 12. How Often Should I Exercise? -- Pt. IX. Improving Fitness -- PE Microunit 13. Improving Cardiorespiratory Endurance -- PE Microunit 14. Improving Muscular Strength -- PE Microunit 15. Improving Flexibility -- Pt. X. Measuring Fitness -- PE Microunit 16. Improving Your Overall Physical Fitness Levels -- PE Microunit 17. Knowing Your Resting Heart Rate -- PE Microunit 18. Exercise Makes Your Heart Beat Faster -- Pt. XI. Be Active Now! -- PE Microunit 19. Be Active Now for a Healthy Heart Later -- PE Microunit 20. Be Active Now for Healthy Bones Later -- PE Microunit 21. Be Active Now to Stay in Shape -- Pt. XII. Get Ready to Exercise -- PE Microunit 22. Energy for Exercise -- PE Microunit 23. Weather and Exercise -- PE Microunit 24. Getting Enough to Drink -- PE Microunit 25. Food and Supplement Myths -- Pt. XIII. Fitness Is Fun! -- PE Microunit 26. Dance for Fitness -- PE Microunit 27. Calisthenics -- PE Microunit 28. Running, Jogging, and Fitness Walking -- PE Microunit 29. Swimming -- PE Microunit 30. Cycling -- PE Microunit 31. Yoga -- App. A. Nutrition Resources -- App. B. Physical Activity Resources -- App. C. Television Viewing and Other Screen Time Resources -- App. D. Social Studies Resources -- App. E. Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes IBM PC compatible with Pentium processor, Windows 98/2000/XP, Adobe Reader 8.0, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 (included), 4x CD-ROM drive
Power MAC required, system 10.4 or higher, Adobe Reader 8.0, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer OS9 or OS10 (included), 4x CD-ROM drive
Subject Nutrition -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Exercise -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Author Carter, Jill, 1962-
LC no. 2007003996
ISBN 9780736069182 (soft cover)
0736069186 (soft cover)