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Resources > Promoting 3-D Health > In or Outside School Project Possibilities by Subject
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These are just a few possible ideas for learning about 3-D Health and taking steps to promote it. In looking them over or (better yet) taking one or more on, let us know if you find helpful resources or additional ideas. In addition, if you make something that might impove this website, like a helpful tip sheet, please email it to us as an attachment. We promise to check it out and get back to you about how to best incorporate it.
Biology
English
Foreign Languages
General and Environmental Science
Health
Math
Mixed Subjects (a.k.a. Interdisciplinary)
Physical Education
Physics
Social Studies
BIOLOGY
• Possible causes of H1N1 and conditions that might lead to similar viruses in the future
• Animal cloning for food
• Growing food in the lab
• Genetic modification of plants and animals
- For pest resistance
- For drought resistance
- For altered nutrient content
- For pharmaceutical drug production
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ENGLISH
• Letter to the editor or other persuasive letter about some health-related topic
- Need for supermarkets in certain urban neighborhoods
- “Revolving doors” between agri-business and governmental regulatory or legislative positions
- Food safety legislation
- Snack taxes
- Wellness policy mandates
- Off-shore oil drilling
- Carbon emissions control measures
• Oral or written report about a health-related book (see the food and fitness resource pages for
• recommendations)
• News article on an ongoing or possible school wellness effort
- School garden
- Walking school bus
- Vending machine changes
- Class party food quality
- Cafeteria food quality
- In-class (integrated) physical activity programs
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FOREIGN LANGUAGES
• Vocabulary list related to a 3-D Health-related topic:
- Agriculture or cooking
- Sports or
fitness
- Risky behaviors,
- Environmental challenges
• Describing a personal or community health experiment
- Growing, buying, cooking, or eating a new food
- Playing a new sport
- Teaching others to play or do something health-related
- Joining a group activity or inviting someone new to do something with you
• How to do some type of physical exercise
- Snowboarding turns or tricks
- Jumping rope
- Sprinting
- Barbell back squat
- Climbing a rope
• A health-related activity in some country
- French cooking
- Mediterranean diets
- The Tour de France stage cycling race (training, nutrition, etc.)
• Production of clothing, food, or other things outside the U.S.
- “Maquilas” in Central America
- Cauliflower from South America
- Bananas from Central America
- Palm oil production in Brazil
- Soy production in Paraguay
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GENERAL and ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
• Calculating the energy savings from making one or more "green" change
- Biking to school 3 days per week
- Creating a walking school bus program at a school
- Growing some % of a family’s or cafeteria’s vegetables locally
• The current health status and trends of a given fishery
• The Gulf of Mexico’s Dead Zone
• Links between deforestation, agriculture, and flooding
• Idea or tip guides:
- Minimizing your carbon footprint in your town or at your school
- Minimizing your role in environmental exploitation in your town or at your school
- Daily steps to minimize your waste stream
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HEALTH
• Reflections on trying one or more ideas from a Health League tip sheet
• What you learned or found (products, farmer/farm info) at a farmers market
• Kid- or teen-friendly recipes for snacks, breakfasts, or other meals
- Trail mix
- Veggie sticks
- Nut and nut butter-based snacks and dishes
- Salads
- Steamed, grilled, stir-fried, or baked veggies
- Eggs
- Smoothies
- Salad dressings
• Food safety in the kitchen (in general, or report on your kitchen)
• Sports compared based on risks or the types of fitness they develop in athletes
• Preventing ACL (knee) injuries in women athletes
• Vitamin D status of Americans or people near you
• Health benefits of eating various kinds of nuts or minimally-processed oils
• Identifying the role of corn and soy (including ingredients derived from them) in your diet
• Risks and rewards of different activities in your life (foods, sports, games, toys, devices, etc.)
• Your habits compared to the 5-2-1-0 recommendation
• Identifying personal health barriers in your life or the life of someone you know
- Built environment
- Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, habits
- Access to resources
• How community and/or environmental health influence your personal health
• Tracking your fruit or vegetable (or other type of food) intake over some amount of time (like a week)
• Tracking your physical activity or sleep over some amount of time (like a week)
• Assessing how one or more of your relationships are impacting you
- Family member
- Sport, instrument, or hobby
- Electronic device
- Facebook
• CSAs and farmers markets in your area (map or table)
• Physical activity opportunities in your area (gyms, playgrounds, leagues, etc.) (map or table)
• Addiction or abuse help resources in your area (map or table)
• Use of the word “natural” in food marketing
• Trans fat labeling laws
• Nanoparticles in foods and personal care products
• Endocrine disruptors in personal care products and plastics
- Bisphenol A
- Phthalates
• The safety and effectiveness of Triclosan in anti-bacterial soap ingredient
• Apparent barriers to community health in your school or town or neighborhood
- Built environment
- Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, habits
- Access to resources
• Making health-building resources more available or attractive to members of your community
• Global or American tobacco marketing strategies
• Ways different people define “food” and “non-food”
- Quality considerations
- Ethics or morals
- Taste
- Religious beliefs
- Traditions and cultural norms
• Idea or tip sheets:
- Developing and maintaining integrity
- Staying mindful (focused on what is happening at the moment)
- Successfully using (vs. abusing) technologies like cell phones and Facebook
- Preventing and dealing with stress in 3-D Healthy ways
- Protecting people with food allergies from foods you enjoy
- Getting enough sleep
- Self check-in:
• How am I feeling physically, mentally, or emotionally?
• Why might I be feeling this way?
• What might be working and not working?
- Recovering from hard sports training sessions
- Finding quality coaching in your area
• Certified professionals
• Personal recommendations
- Preparing food with friends or family members
- Incorporating vegetables into meals
- Exercising with friends or family members
- Recognizing (and ideally replacing) disempowering comments by yourself or others
• Body image
• Reading or other academic skill capability or interest
• Sense of self-worth
• Generalizations about the world or yourself
• Perceptions of student smoking or drinking rates compared to actual reported rates
• Talking to a friend with an apparent eating disorder or addiction
• Self-checks for people with a potential disorder or addiction
• Creating a school garden
• Developing a school recycling or waste reduction program
• Improving the quality of food sold in school vending machines or snack bars
• Improving school cafeteria food quality
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MATH (calculating and/or graphing changes (usually over time) for something health-related):
• A fitness indicator like rower power output
• Blood alcohol content compared to number of drinks consumed and body mass
• Market share of a food, fitness, or tobacco company
• Obesity, smoking, drinking, television-watching, Facebooking, or texting rates
• Food miles of items at a store or in a meal
• Numbers of grocery and convenience stores in an area or per capita
• Disease (pick one) incidence, prevalence, or mortality
• Vitamin D status of people compared to the longitudes at which they live
• Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone area
• Greenhouse gas production
• Lake or ocean pH
• Deforestation in Asia or South America
• Erosion or rainfall in different parts of the world
• Glacier or Arctic/Antarctic ice mass size
• Fish or other animal populations
• Species or seed diversity
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MIXED SUBJECTS (a.k.a. INTERDISCIPLINARY)
• School garden or farm-to-school success stories
• Approaches to teaching and/or motivating used by one or more coach or trainer
• Reflections on helping with a community garden or doing some other volunteer activity
• Sources of your community’s food (people, companies, farms, etc.)
• Sources of the food in a school’s cafeteria
• Farming practices used at a local farm
• Understanding the U.S. Farm Bill
• The USDA’s and FDA’s roles in nutrition and/or agriculture
• Existing, pending, or possible legislation related to a health-related topic such as:
- Food
- Physical education
- Physical activity
• An environmental health-related book (report)
• The source(s) of food (seafood, meat, other) served at a local restaurant or sold at a local store
• Lawsuits against oil or pesticide companies in Central or South America
• The Story of Stuff acted out as a play
• Trying to reduce carbon emissions with regulations, fees/taxes, or cap-and-trade approaches
• Reflections on doing some volunteer environmental health-related activity
• The challenge of achieving positive impacts using carbon offsets
• Emerging alternative energy technologies
• Volunteer opportunities in your area for promoting 3-D Health
• Idea or tip guides:
- Minimizing your role in human exploitation in your school or town or neighborhood
- Consuming in ways that promote 3-D Health
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION
• Completing and recording performances in one or more exercises from the Fitness Checker worksheet
• Creating a timed workout (taking things from a list of tasks) and having the class complete it individually
• or in teams
• Inviting a guest instructor to introduce a skill
- Martial arts
- Gymnastics
- Olympic weightlifting
- Power lifting
- Running
- Dancing
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PHYSICS (calculations of force, work, velocity, acceleration, etc. for various physical exercises):
• Running vs. walking
• Jumping straight up 12” vs. 24”
• Landing on 1 or 2 feet from some jump height
• Usain Bolt running 100 meters vs. Michael Phelps swimming 100 meters
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SOCIAL STUDIES
• Map of a meal or outfit – where in your town, state, country, or the world it is from (including where
• grown, produced, assembled, etc.)
• The story of a meal or outfit based on where things are from (bit of info about each place)
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