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Eating & Exercise
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.
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Teaching Resources
Main Topics
- Biology
- Food
- Exercise
- Energy
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.
Tips for Teachers
The teacher's guide (pdf) contains tips created by the PhET team.
Teaching Ideas
| Title | Authors | Level | Type | Updated |
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Eating and Exercise Clicker Questions
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Trish Loeblein | UG-Intro MS HS |
CQs | 4/10/12 |
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Eating and Exercise Activity
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Wendy Adams | UG-Intro K-5 MS HS |
Lab | 11/5/10 |
| Guided Discovery: BMI, BMR, Calories in/out | Steve Vendome | HS MS |
Lab Other |
5/22/09 |
| Obesidade: Prevenção e Tratamento | Valdiney Marques de Oliveira | MS | CQs | 12/6/13 |
| Aliando alimentação, exercício e escrita: um desafio em simulação | Ana Paula de Deus Mesck, Jaqueline Lidorio Mattia | MS | Lab | 8/27/13 |
You can submit your own ideas and activities.
Translated Versions:
| Language | Language (Translated) | Simulation Title | ||
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| Afrikaans | Afrikaans | Eet en Oefening | Run Now | |
| Arabic | العربية | التغذية والتمرين | Run Now | |
| Basque | Basque | Elikadura & Ariketa fisikoa | Run Now | |
| Brazilian Portuguese | português (Brasil) | Comer & Exercitar-se | Run Now | |
| Chinese - Simplified | 中文 (中国) | 饮食与运动 | Run Now | |
| Chinese - Traditional | 中文 (台灣) | Eating & Exercise 飲食與運動 | Run Now | |
| Czech | čeština | Stravování a cvičení | Run Now | |
| Danish | Dansk | Kost og motion | Run Now | |
| Dutch | Nederlands | Eten en bewegen | Run Now | |
| Estonian | Eesti | Söömine ja liikumine (kehamassiindeks KMI) | Run Now | |
| French | français | Alimentation et Exercice | Run Now | |
| Georgian | Georgian | Eating & Exercise | Run Now | |
| German | Deutsch | Ernährung und Bewegung | Run Now | |
| Greek | Ελληνικά | Διατροφή & Άσκηση | Run Now | |
| Hebrew | עברית | מזון ופעילות גופנית | Run Now | |
| Hungarian | magyar | Táplálkozás és testmozgás | Run Now | |
| Italian | italiano | Alimentazione ed esercizio | Run Now | |
| Japanese | 日本語 | 運動と食事 | Run Now | |
| Khmer | Khmer | ការទទួលទាន និងការហាត់ប្រាណ | Run Now | |
| Korean | 한국어 | 식사와 운동 | Run Now | |
| Macedonian | македонски | ИСХРАНА И ВЕЖБАЊЕ | Run Now | |
| Persian | Persian | انرژی و شما | Run Now | |
| Polish | polski | Jedz i Ćwicz | Run Now | |
| Serbian | Српски | ИСХРАНА & ВЕЖБАЊЕ | Run Now | |
| Slovak | Slovenčina | Jedlo & Cvičenie | Run Now | |
| Spanish | español | Comida y Ejercicio | Run Now | |
| Spanish (Peru) | español (Perú) | Alimentación & Ejercicio | Run Now | |
| Turkish | Türkçe | Yemek ve Eksersiz | Run Now | |
| Turkmen | Turkmen | Iýmek we maşk etmek | Run Now | |
| Vietnamese | Tiếng Việt | Ẩm thực và Thể dục | Run Now |
Software Requirements
| Windows | Macintosh | Linux |
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Microsoft Windows
XP/Vista/7 Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
OS 10.5 or later
Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later |
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
Credits
| Design Team | Third-party Libraries | Thanks To |
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