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\nBody Mass Index (BMI)\n

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\nKnow your number! Diabetes and heart disease both increase with higher body mass index numbers. Understanding the body mass index (BMI) helps scholars take control of their own health. They view a comparison of what various BMI...\n
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\nBody Mass Index (BMI)\n

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\nHow do you calculate your Body Mass Index, and why is this information a valuable indicator of health? Class members discover not only what BMI is and practice calculating it using the height and weight of six fictitious individuals, but...\n
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\n\"BMI\n\n
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\nBMI Calculations\n

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\nObesity is a worldwide concern. Using survey results, learners compare local BMI statistics to celebrity BMI statistics. Scholars create box plots of the data, make observations about the shape and spread of the data, and examine the...\n
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\nHow Much Do You Burn?\n

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\nSixth graders discover their weight relative to the other children in their class. They determine how many calories they burn through exercise and compare it with their classmates. Using the internet, they calculate their body mass index...\n
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\nAll About Me: Measuring Height and Weight\n

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\nStudents take personal fitness inventories. In this personal health lesson, students take measurements of their heights and weights. Students record the data, calculate their BMI, and then chart their physical activity.\n
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\nBMI For Kids - Body Mass Index\n

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\nPromote healthy lifestyles with an interactive that provides young learners with healthy nutrition and exercise messages. Class members plug their height and weight information into an online body mass index calculator, and hear positive...\n
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\nWhat's My BMI?\n

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\nStudents construct the Metric Pyramid from the handout. They use the Metric Pyramid to convert from standard to metric measure and vice versa. They compute their own Body Mass Index.\n
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\nObesity: Grades 3-5\n

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\nWhat is obesity and what are some steps that can help? Investigate obesity by having your class read and discuss articles about obesity. Students gain knowledge about body mass index, the food pyramid, being overweight and dieting. They...\n
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\nUnderweight Canadians\n

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\nStudents explore body mass index, calculate theirs, compare theirs to Canadian guidelines, and discuss possible reasons for being underweight.\n
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\nMy Personal Improvement Plan\n

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\nStudents investigate what is necessary to design a personal improvement plan including making web using software. They research the meaning of Body Mass Index and how to measure it before accessing assigned web sites that discuss health...\n
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\nPerceived Overweight and Actual Weight Risk Classification\n

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\nYoung scholars calculate their BMI and compare it to a healthy weight chart.  In this health lesson, students compare the perception of overweight with healthy weight charts. Young scholars interpret collected data and evaluate...\n
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\nHhmi: Biointeractive: Obesity: Body Mass Index\n

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\nThis animation demonstrates how body mass index affects the degree of obesity in an average height human male. [1:21]\n
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\nKids Health: Body Mass Index\n

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\nDetermine your body mass index using this online calculator. This handy tool will even plot your BMI data on a graph.\n
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\nAmerican Heart Association: Body Mass Index (Bmi Calculator)\n

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\nLearn about body mass index and how this number affects your overall health. Then plug in your own data to find your BMI.\n
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\nKhan Academy: Healthy Lifestyle: Calculate Your Own Body Mass Index\n

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\nFind out how simple it is to calculate your BMI and the common BMI categories. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.\n
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\nKhan Academy: Calculate Your Own Body Mass Index\n

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\nFind out how simple it is to calculate your BMI and the common BMI categories from a pediatric infectious disease physician who works at Khan Academy. [7:20]\n
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\nMayo Clinic: Bmi Calculator\n

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\nUse this interactive body mass index calculator to determine if your weight is under, over or normal for your size and read about things you can do to maintain a healthy weight.\n
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\nBmi Official Website\n

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\nInformation on the music licensing company BMI, including information on their members, artists, and legislation.\n
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\nNctm: Figure This: Body Mass What's Your Index? (Pdf)\n

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\nIf you like tackling formulas, then this math challenge is for you. See if you can calculate Helix's BMI (body mass index) and find out if his health is at risk. A one page NCTM Math Challenges for Families activity that engages learners...\n
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\nRead Works: The Weight Debate\n

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\n[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether or not schools should send reports home about students' body mass index (BMI). A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.\n
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\nFrontiers: Brain Machine Interfaces: Your Brain in Action\n

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\nBrain-machine interfaces (BMI), or brain-computer interfaces (BCI), is an exciting multidisciplinary field that has grown tremendously during the last decade. In a nutshell, BMI is about transforming thought into action and sensation...\n
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\nRead Works: F Is for Fat\n

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\n[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about Body Mass Index and childhood obesity. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...\n
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\nPbs: The Lowdown: Exploring Changing Obesity Rates Through Ratios and Graphs\n

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\nIn these KQED Lowdown infographics, explore how adult obesity rates in the United States, as measured by body mass index (BMI), have dramatically changed in the past half-century. A circular graph and a pictograph depict data by decade,...\n
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\nConversion calculators galore! Convert just about anything from one measureable unit into another measureable unit here with over two dozen calculators. Each of the links is specific to a measureable quantity. Some examples include...\n
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