Use a spreadsheet to do multiple calculations computing amounts of energy burned by people with different weights.
Understand the relationship between exercise and weight.
Materials
Activity & Calorie Chart
Computer spreadsheet program
Procedure
Discuss as a class
what type of equation will be generated.
Enter data in the 125 and 150 lb columns and generate the 175 lb column to check your formulas.
Change 175 lbs to 240 lbs to answer questions on the worksheet.
Change 240 lbs to 98 lbs to answer questions on the worksheet.
Conclusion
Fill in your Fat to Burn worksheet based on results and conclusions drawn from your spreadsheet.
Enter your weight in column D1 and record in your journal how much energy you would burn doing each of the activities for 10 minutes.
Hand in Fat to Burn worksheet before class is over.
Go to
http://kirtland.cc.mi.us/~balbachl/calorie.htm or to other sites and find the amount of energy burned during activities for your weight. Enter this information in your Journal to be used later in the unit.