MODULE 4:Ready, Set, Balance!

This module focuses on how students can apply the concept of Energy Balance in their lives. 

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Energy Balance in Your Life
Students will:

•      Examine and compare calories per serving and nutrient content in foods or beverages
•      they recently consumed.
•      Calculate calories burned from physical activities they recently did.
•      Make a Human Energy Balance Scale.

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I Can Balance. You Can Balance.
Students will:

•       Identify benefits of maintaining Energy Balance.
•       Identify possible obstacles that could prevent someone their age from maintaining
•       Energy Balance.
•       Generate solutions and choices to help imaginary kids their age overcome obstacles for
•       maintaining Energy Balance.

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How Balanced Are You?
Students will:

•      Brainstorm potential personal challenges to maintaining Energy Balance and ideas for
•      overcoming those challenges.
•      Track their Energy In and Energy Out for one day.
•      Analyze their Energy In and Energy Out and identify manageable goals that can help
•      them maintain Energy Balance. 

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Your Energy Balance Goal!
Students will:

•     Write an "Energy Balance" goal that they will monitor over the next four weeks.
•      Develop goal-setting skills to improve their ongoing Energy Balance.

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