Eating & Exercise

Eating & Exercise Screenshot
  • Biology
  • Food
  • Exercise
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Topics

  • Biology
  • Food
  • Exercise
  • Energy

Description

How many calories are in your favorite foods? How much exercise would you have to do to burn off these calories? What is the relationship between calories and weight? Explore these issues by choosing diet and exercise and keeping an eye on your weight.

Sample Learning Goals

  • Design a diet and exercise regimen.
  • Estimate the number of calories required for basic survival.
  • Estimate the number of calories burned by exercise.
  • Explain how heart health depends on diet and exercise.
  • Explain how Body Mass Index (BMI) depends on weight and height.
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Teacher Tips

Download teacher tips PDF Overview of sim controls, model simplifications, and insights into student thinking ( PDF ).

Teacher-Submitted Activities

Eating and Exercise Clicker Questions A gold star indicates high-quality, inquiry-based activities that follow the PhET design guidelines. This contribution was designed by PhET. Trish Loeblein UG-Intro
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Eating and Exercise Activity A gold star indicates high-quality, inquiry-based activities that follow the PhET design guidelines. Wendy Adams K-5
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How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program? This contribution was designed by PhET. Sarah Borenstein MS Other Biology
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MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment Elyse Zimmer MS
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Eating & Exercise Simulation Lesson Katie Grobe K-5 Lab Biology
Eating and Exercise Simulation Kelsey Zinnel K-5
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Eating and Exercise Simulation Activity Samantha Goldstein K-5 Guided Other
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factors that determine food requirements in human beings GEORGE SAMSON MS
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Healthy Eating and Proper Exercise Angel Bontilao & Cherelyn Cales MS
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Eating and Exercise PhET: Body Systems grade 4-5 Molly Martin K-5 Lab Biology
Eating and Exercise digital lesson Stephanie Bonilla K-5 Lab
Health and Exercise Stephanie K-5 CQs
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Guided Discovery: BMI, BMR, Calories in/out Steve Vendome HS
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SECUNDARIA: Alineación PhET con programas de la SEP México (2011 y 2017) This contribution was designed by PhET. Diana López HS
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PRIMARIA: Alineación con programas de la SEP México (2011 y 2017) This contribution was designed by PhET. Diana López K-5
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sperimenta e rispondi giuliana lo giudice HS Lab
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alimentazione Daniela Leone MS Lab
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Alimentação e Saúde Viviane Alves de Oliveira Feitosa, Maria Cleide da Silva Barroso K-5
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Educação alimentar e nutricional Rosemary Carvalho de Sousa, Raphael Alves Feitosa,Antonio de Lisboa Coutinho Junior HS Guided
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Aliando alimentação, exercício e escrita: um desafio em simulação Ana Paula de Deus Mesck, Jaqueline Lidorio Mattia MS Lab Other
Exploracion del simulador bryan castaño HS
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Comida y Ejercicio, Lección Digital Elvis Rivera K-5 Lab
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Chinese (Simplified) All 中文 (中国) Run now 饮食与运动
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  • Wendy Adams
  • Noah Podolefsky
  • Kathy Perkins
  • Kate Semsar
  • Franny Benay
  • Sam Reid (developer)