Purpose

• Learn about body fat and how it affects your health.
• Find your percent of body fat.

• Measurements from Journal
• Tape measures, calipers, weight scales
• Internet access and articles on body fat

• Find internet sites with formulas and calculators for body fat.
• Read and report ways to compute body fat.
• Measure and use journal measurement to compute your body fat using several different methods (at least one method should be done using a formula).
• Find the average of all of your findings to calculate your percent of body fat.
• Complete the Body Fat Worksheet.

• Body Fat Worksheet will be completed and handed in at the end of the period.
• The average of percent body fat calculations will be entered into your journal.
• Your body fat calculation will be used in the BodyComp Stella model later in the unit.