| Purpose: | To
help 6th through 8th grade students identify the link between good nutrition and
athletic performance. | | Objectives: |
- Students will select foods to fit into a training diet for sports
- Students
will explore fluid needs during physical activity training or game times.
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Summary of Learning
Activities:
How
Much Water?
Students will answer questions on-line about their
fluid needs for physical activity.
What
About Sports Drinks?
This activity allows students to examine different
kinds of sports drinks and decide if they are a good
fluid replacement drink when they are exercising or
during a game.
Planning
a Healthy Diet
Students are given a list of possible food choices
and asked to fill up the food guide pyramid with their
choices. They will submit their food choices on-line
and receive a report to tell them how well their selection
fit into the food recommendations.
Supplemental
Activities
The following are
additional assignments you can use with your students.
Investigative
Reporting
Students can write a news story about nutrition and
sports. Invite a local news or sports reporter to
talk to your students about key points in writing
a good news story. Be sure the guest understands the
nature of the student assignment.
Search
the Net
Students may go on-line to find other sports nutrition
tips. Have group discussions on their findings. Is
the information reliable? Does the Internet advice
advocate eating healthy foods before relying on supplements
or special aids? What are the students' impressions
about the truthfulness of the information they found?
Activities
Wordsearch
Answer Key.
Crossword Answer Key.The sheet for students to
work on is located in The
Training Diet section. Adobe Acrobat Reader is
needed for this activity. Download this free
plug-in from Adobe to see and print this activity.
Final Note
This unit requires more on-line reading.
It goes a little deeper into the nutrients and why
they are needed for good health. You may want to spend
a little extra time reviewing the nutrients with the
youth and showing them how they fit with food groups
on the Food Pyramid.
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