Don’t Get Fooled by Fat: Nutrition and Consumer Awareness Presenter: Justin Gonzalez Class: Analyzing Schools School Placement: Belizzi Middle School Teacher Placement: Mr. Roderick 7 th Grade Science

Objectives: Students will relate everyday eating habits to proper nutrition, primarily focusing on “Fat”. Students will relate everyday eating habits to proper nutrition, primarily focusing on “Fat”. Several times, students will be placed into groups and teams to discuss and recognize nutrition food labels. Several times, students will be placed into groups and teams to discuss and recognize nutrition food labels. The teacher will demonstrate to the students how to properly read and calculate total fat and % daily value on a given product. The teacher will demonstrate to the students how to properly read and calculate total fat and % daily value on a given product. Students will apply what they have learned from the teacher and will practice in groups on their own. Students will apply what they have learned from the teacher and will practice in groups on their own. Students will compare and contrast estimated results to actual results. Students will compare and contrast estimated results to actual results. Students will organize into teams and develop their own “fat-healthy” diets. Students will organize into teams and develop their own “fat-healthy” diets. Students will evaluate their “fat-healthy” diets using concrete facts and calculations. Students will evaluate their “fat-healthy” diets using concrete facts and calculations.

Monday Students will get into groups of 3 or 4 and be asked to estimate the total fat content of a “Big Mac” Students will get into groups of 3 or 4 and be asked to estimate the total fat content of a “Big Mac” After the students have estimated they will record their answers on the board After the students have estimated they will record their answers on the board Teacher will hand out actual nutrition fact-sheet from McDonald’s allowing students to compare actual and estimated results Teacher will hand out actual nutrition fact-sheet from McDonald’s allowing students to compare actual and estimated results

30g of Total Fat 47% of Daily Value

Tuesday The students will watch excerpts from the movie ‘Super Size Me’ showing one day’s diet; including breakfast, lunch, and dinner at McDonald’s. Excerpts will also show beginning and ending results over 30 day trial. The students will watch excerpts from the movie ‘Super Size Me’ showing one day’s diet; including breakfast, lunch, and dinner at McDonald’s. Excerpts will also show beginning and ending results over 30 day trial. Students will be asked to guess how much fat is consumed between three McDonald’s meals over the course of one day Students will be asked to guess how much fat is consumed between three McDonald’s meals over the course of one day Nutrition labels will be re-circulated to show guessed versus actual results. Nutrition labels will be re-circulated to show guessed versus actual results.

Meal #1 29g 45% Fat Totals Meal # 2 55g 85% Fat Totals Meal # 3 65g 100% Fat Totals (w/ Fries & Soda)

Total Results: 3 Course Meal at McDonalds Total Fat Consumed for entire day... Total Fat Consumed for entire day grams of FAT 149 grams of FAT Recommended amount… Recommended amount… Less than 65 grams Less than 65 grams % Daily Value of Fat Consumed for entire day… % Daily Value of Fat Consumed for entire day… 230 % Daily Value 230 % Daily Value

Wednesday Students will be shown a nutrition label diagram and will be taught how to read and interpret the labels; focusing mainly on fat. Students will be shown a nutrition label diagram and will be taught how to read and interpret the labels; focusing mainly on fat. Teacher will lead the class in an experiment which involves estimating, comparing and calculating serving size, total fat, daily percent values, using peanut-butter as the medium. Teacher will lead the class in an experiment which involves estimating, comparing and calculating serving size, total fat, daily percent values, using peanut-butter as the medium.

Thursday Using the knowledge gained from the three previous days’ exercises, students will be again broken up into groups of 3 or 4 and will be in charge of running their own food information station [there will be 6 or 7 of these in total]. Using the knowledge gained from the three previous days’ exercises, students will be again broken up into groups of 3 or 4 and will be in charge of running their own food information station [there will be 6 or 7 of these in total].

Friday Students will assemble in 5 teams to formulate and evaluate a “fat-healthy” diet using the foods and information from Thursday’s exercise. Students will assemble in 5 teams to formulate and evaluate a “fat-healthy” diet using the foods and information from Thursday’s exercise.

Evaluation Students will be evaluated on how well they estimate, compare, and calculate with their experiments throughout the week and with their final “fat-healthy” diets. Students will be evaluated on how well they estimate, compare, and calculate with their experiments throughout the week and with their final “fat-healthy” diets.