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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: What Is Obesity?
Learn more about obesity and the factors that influence it.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Health
Considering price and smart food choices, plan out a healthy fast food meal.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Ss
Explore the growing problem of obesity around the globe.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Math
Analyze a sampling of real data to determine how healthy fast food meals for children are.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Fast Food Marketing
Find out how many fast food companies invest in advertising to convince consumers to buy their products.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Food and Nutrition
Learn about the five food groups that are important for a healthy diet.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Introduction
Take the Fast Food Challenge to start thinking about the role fast food plays in our lives today.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Stem Career: Cell Biologist
LEarn how cell biologists study the structure and function of cells, including the interactions that happen inside cells.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Stem Career: Packaging Engineer
See how packaging engineers who work in the food industry create many different kinds of food packaging.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Stem Career: Food Chemist
Learn about chemists who specialize in food chemistry- the study of chemical processes and interactions in our foods.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Make a Prototype/test the Design
Mke and test a prototype of your healthy fast food meal.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Supersizing
Understand how portion size affects healthy eating habits.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Typical Fast Food Meal
Compare a sample fast food meal with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's MyPlate guidelines.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: A Legal Matter
Explore whether or not fast food companies should be liable for damages if their customers become obese.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Communicate Your Results
Create an advertisement for your newly created healthy fast food children's meal.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal:refine the Final Children's Meal
Analyze feedback and think about how to improve your fast food children's meal.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Art
Explore how attractive packaging sells kids meals at fast food restaurants.
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Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Biology
Analyze a children's meal from a local fast food restaurant to confirm or deny the presence of fat, protein, simple carbohydrates (sugar) and complex carbohydrates (starch).
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Thinkport: Annotator Tool
Use Thinkport's Annotator tool to analyze text and build writing skills. Simply paste in your text, select your virtual markers and have students annotate the passages.
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Thinkport: Algebra Ii: Regression
Build on your understanding of modeling with linear, quadratic and exponential functions to begin to include other function families.
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Thinkport: Algebra Ii: Linear, Quadratic and Exponential Regression
Review linear regression and analyze how well this model fits the data. You will also be introduced to residuals and the correlation coefficient, and use these tools to determine whether or not a linear model is the best fit for a set of...
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Maryland Public Television: Charge! Just Charge It!
Stores and credit card companies make it seem so easy. How often have you seen advertisements to buy something and only pay $20 a month? So what's the real cost of credit? Let's go shopping and find out.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Sample Water Purification Systems
Learn about the two methods to clean water: distillation and filtration.
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Maryland Public Television: Check It Out!
Ever wonder what it would be like to be out of school and on your own? Play the Check It Out game and find out.