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An interesting web-based tool or resource that I would use while teaching would be the nutrition daily intake journal from mypyramid.org. This tool allows individuals to keep a log of all of the meals, drinks, or snacks that they consume on a daily basis, and it tracks the calories for them. It also gives them a visual on what exactly they are putting inside of their bodies and provides optional choices for them which are healthier, and lower in calories. It also provides insight, and shows them which category of the food pyramid that the yare not having enough of in their diet.
Programs such as Microsoft Excel are extremely important, and useful within the teaching environment. Excel can be used by the teacher for simple things such as calling role, recording grades, and also educational activities. If I was a teacher and wanted to implement the daily food journal, I would create an Excel Sheet which list all of the students in the class and records what they ate within a week, as well as recording the calories that they have consumed. Excel would make this very easy because it already has an organized sheet set up where I would just have to fill in the data, and the equation functions, will allow me or the students to appropriately add everything up while saving time as well. This exercise would be good for middle school students 8th grade and above because they will l=have the necessary skills to operate the basics of Excel. The subject matter would be Mathematics and Science.