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Day 1: Green Scene Students learn the benefits of green vegetables and the number of recommended servings

Day 2: Vital Vitamins Students learn about different types of vitamins and how they function in the body

Day 3: Nutritious Choices Students examine their eating habits and learn about a balanced diet

Day 4: International Food Day Students learn the differences in people's diets from around the world

Day 5: Super-size Me Students learn about America's growing obesity and its relationship to portion size

Day 6: Got Greens? Students learn ways foods are marketed towards youth in order to start their own green campaign

Day 7: Getting the Skinny on Obesity Students learn about the New Food Pyramid and how to evaluate their Body Mass Index

Day 8: Action Plan (See the lesson below) Students evaluate their own activity levels and plan ways to add more movement into their lives

Day 9: Fitting in Fitness Students evaluate how they spend their time and how to include physical activity into their day

Day 10: Green Day Students plant a garden and/or fix up a community space for physical activity

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1. Warm-up: If possible, work with the physical education teacher and administer a fitness test. Otherwise, have students do jumping jacks and take their pulse.
2. Use the following chart to measure resting and active pulse rates: http://www.webmd.com/hw/heart_disease/hw233473.asp Do students' pulse rates fall into normal range? How does pulse rate speak to a person's health and level of fitness?
3. Afterwards, ask students to rate their daily activity level using these categories: Sedentary, Moderate Activity, Active, or Very Active.
4. Ask students to define what a sedentary lifestyle means. What might moderate activity look like?
5. Go to any of the following websites to calculate the amount of calories burned during various activities:
• http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc
• http://www.nutristrategy.com/activitylist.htm
Explain to students that all of these websites take into account weight and the amount of time for a particular activity.
6. Reflect: In groups, have students brainstorm 10 ways to increase their activity level. These might be actual exercises or small ways they can change their routines, like not using the remote to turn a channel or walking up stairs instead of taking the elevator.

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