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Activity Originally Created By: Karen Serritelli

No Pain, No Gain

Part of Lesson Plan: Burn, Baby, Burn - The Role of Metabolism and Activity Level

Activity Overview / Details

Just as your metabolism plays into how your body uses the energy from calories so does your activity level.  Lets take a look at some routine activities and the amount of calories burned.

You can use this link to quiz students on food amounts worth 100 calories

Quiz is quite long so you may want to use only a few examples.

  http://www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/100-calories-quiz

Use the attached information to demonstrate the calorie content of some popular foods and the length of time for required activity to burn 100 calories.

Materials / Resource

  • calorie Word strips.doc calorie Word strips.doc [ Download ] Use this information to show correlation between calories burned and exercise.
  • WHAT DOES 100 CALORIES LOOK LIKE.doc WHAT DOES 100 CALORIES LOOK LIKE.doc [ Download ] visual descriptors