Middle and High School Math/Statistics Lessons Using Sports

Nutrition Products and Popular Toy Models

A Professional Development Workshop Presented By :

Star Campbell, MS, Med, RD, LDN and contractor

to the PA Department of Education

Determine the economic and nutritional value of commercial sports drinks and protein powders, shakes and bars as well as convenience foods in meeting the nutritional needs of athletes and other students by using tools such as scatterplots and whisker plots.  Use an allometric equation to scale Barbie, Ken and Mad Max and compare the results to actual adult measurements and then discuss the implications in regards to body image.  Conduct a z-test to determine the foods in which there has been a significant change in consumption by teenagers over the past decade and discuss the implications in regards to increasing weights in school children.  The lessons demonstrated in the workshop come from a packet which will be given to each school district represented.
 
The workshop will be held
April 13, 2004 from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
In Room 109 of Wickersham Hall,
Millersville University
 

Star Campbell is an independent nutrition education consultant residing in State College, PA. She consults for various organizations, such as the Pennsylvania Department of Education, in the area of nutrition education, teacher training, and curriculum development. She has developed several middle school and high school interdisciplinary curricula for the Pennsylvania Dept. of Education. Her most recent curricula are “Sports Nutrition Lessons for Adolescents,” and “Body Weight and Body Image Lessons for Adolescents,” copyright 2001.

Star was a faculty member in the department of Food Science in the 1999-2000 academic year and in the department of Nutrition at Penn State from 1983-1995. Star has been a consultant to school districts and private academies, Fortune 500 companies, and international health organizations.

Star’s passions are developing new nutrition education materials, conducting teacher training workshops, traveling around the world, eating new foods, and race walking. Star likes to race walk marathons and has completed six marathons and numerous half marathons in the past 4 years.

Sponsored by the

Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation

And Funded by the PA Dept. of Education