Nutrition+and+Health+Research

4. Nutrition and Health Research Now that you have a team and have decided how you would like to present your final project, it's time to find out some facts about nutrition and health.

What are some of the terms we will be using during this unit? Work **as a team** to complete the following. Make sure you divide up the work evenly:
 * Vocabulary**
 * Complete the Word Search (in your workbook)
 * Choose 10 words from the Word Search and find a definition for them: Go to Google. One at a time type the terms in the Search box as follows: define:__term__. For example, to find the definition of calorie, type define:calorie. Notice there are no spaces. Write the the word and the definition on the back of the Word Search.
 * When you are finished with your definitions, close the window and turn your word search in to me. Make sure your team name and class are on the paper.

For one week, you kept a journal about the foods you ate and approximately how much you ate of each thing. Let's see how **one day** of your last week stacks up against the Food Pyramid, which is the US government's suggestion of how much each person should eat in a day. You got a small taste this when you played the Blast Off game the other day. Work **individually** to complete the following. >
 * You Are What You Eat**
 * First, go to My Pyramid Plan
 * Fill in the information, click "Submit," then read the information on the page.
 * Next, click where it says " Click here to view and print a PDF version of your results " (on the right) and print the page. Write your name on your paper and put it in your team folder.
 * Close the window.
 * Now, let's find out how what you actually ate fits with what you should eat in a day!
 * Remember the food journal we kept for a week at the beginning of the year? Choose the day from your week that you think you at the most nutritiously. Use that food to complete the MyPyramid Worksheet. Compare to match up what you ate and decide how you did.
 * Complete the Journal entry at the bottom of the page.
 * Check with your teammates if you need help.

Work **as a team** to complete the following:
 * Food Smarts**
 * Answer the questions in your workbook as you go. Before recording your answers, make sure your team agrees on the answer and that you are dividing up the work evenly.
 * You will need to go through all the topics in the "Topics in Food Smarts" in order to answer the questions in your workbook. Sometimes when you do Internet research, you need to read every word to fully understand what you're reading. For this assignment, you do ** not ** need to read every word...skim for the answers! Yeah!
 * ** Important: ﻿Do all of the 1st page **, then you may choose either odds or evens for the rest of the workbook!
 * Please go to: Food Smarts: What's In You? and answer the questions in your workbook. Hint: The workbook questions are mostly in order. Pay attention to the section headers to find the answers.
 * Close the window when you are finished.

When your team is finished with step 4, celebrate with your secret handshake, check in with me **as a team**, return to Nutrition and Health, and go to Step 5.