ALEX Classroom Resources

Subject: Physical Education (8 - 12), Health Education (8 - 12)
Title: 37 Food Journal & Diary Templates to Track Your Meals
URL: https://www.developgoodhabits.com/food-journal-template/
Description:

This website describes 37 different food journals and gives tips on how to be successful during this process. A food journal is a useful tool for improving health. It is a tool that can be used to track what one eats at every meal. Keeping a food diary allows one to:

Become more accountable for your eating habits
Identify your motivation for eating
Focus on your nutritional requirements
Know your food triggers, for pinpointing allergies
Keep track of calories for weight loss/gain goals
Eat more healthily

Subject: Physical Education (6 - 12), Health Education (8 - 12)
Title: Keep Your Body in Motion
URL: https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/4306e029-9a0d-4d74-aa05-ebfb67e94f7d/nc-science-now-keep-your-body-in-motion/
Description:

Learn the difference between strength, endurance, and power in this lesson. This lesson can be organized as self-paced for students to enjoy on their own or teachers could use the slide presentation to pace the instruction of this content. Students will find out how body fat impacts both fitness and health, the different types of exercise, and how to create an activity plan.

Subject: Physical Education (9 - 12)
Title: Juggle Nutrition for Health – High School Physical Education
URL: https://openphysed.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/JMPN-HS-00-FullModule.pdf
Description:

This is a learning module that will challenge students to develop juggling skills while learning about MyPlate Nutrition! Included are activity logs and printable documents for goal setting.

Subject: Physical Education (9 - 12)
Title: The Fast Food Quiz
URL: https://www.pecentral.org/LessonIdeas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=8818#.Xpxi8jdKg1I
Description:

This activity is designed to show students how difficult it can be to make healthy food choices and to help them understand the nutritional information available for a variety of foods. This activity can be done at the start of a nutrition unit. It was developed after the author realized that many students had no idea how to make good food choices or how to interpret nutritional information. Many students are keen to adopt or maintain a healthy active lifestyle, yet neglect to ensure that they are eating from all the food groups and that they are consuming nutritious food that is beneficial to them.

Subject: Physical Education (9 - 12)
Title: Cutting Calories Leads to Weight Loss
URL: https://sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/cutting-calories-leads-weight-loss-251844
Description:

After this interactive lesson, your students will really understand the concept of calories--and it's fun too! Students will analyze a teenage boy named Joe's unhealthy eating (Every day he is having a Snickers candy bar, pizza, breadsticks, etc.) and then they will help Joe cut food to drop 500 calories a day, thus losing a pound a week.

Subject: Physical Education (9 - 12)
Title: Get Your MyPlate Plan
URL: https://www.choosemyplate.gov/resources/MyPlatePlan
Description:

The MyPlate Plan shows your food group targets – what and how much to eat within your calorie allowance. Your food plan is personalized, based on your age, sex, height, weight, and physical activity level. The MyPlate Plan is also available in Spanish.

This is an interactive webpage allowing students to enter their information with the webpage auto-calculating. Students are then given plans related to the caloric needs of students.

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