ERIC Number: EJ981340
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Sep
Pages: 10
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What's on Your Plate? Thinking Proportionally
Bush, Sarah B.; Karp, Karen S.; Popelka, Liz; Bennett, Victoria Miller
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, v18 n2 p100-109 Sep 2012
How better to promote a healthy lifestyle than to get an entire middle school involved in analyzing dietary information? This article describes a series of activities that was part of an interdisciplinary schoolwide effort to discuss healthy food choices. Mathematics teachers chose to focus on students' dietary habits and, over several days, engaged more than 400 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students in exploring the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Choose My Plate program. The dietary guidelines illustrated on the USDA's Choose My Plate diagram can provide healthy portions of data analysis, health education, and cultural responsiveness. (Contains 5 figures and 2 activity sheets.)
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Food, Dietetics, Eating Habits, Mathematics Teachers, Nutrition, Life Style, Middle Schools, Middle School Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Guidelines
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Grade 6; Grade 7; Grade 8; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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