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What's Happening to Your Body
Students list the types of biological development that occur during adolescence and the nutritional, physical, and mental needs that support that development. They describe careers in the field of adolescent health.
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The Cell Membrane
Your students will love this PowerPoint! Great visuals will support understanding of membrane proteins, cell membranes, active transport, and diffusion. There are a lot of details on each page and all are relevant. The presentation could...
Concord Consortium
Polymers and Monomers
You don't want to break these chains! Show young chemists and biologists the basics of polymerization with a simple interactive. The resource gives learners three types of polymers to experiment with, as well as a brief tutorial about...
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You Are What You Eat (The 6 Main Nutrients Found in Foods)
Students study how carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water provide basic nutrients for body growth and function. They describe quality sources of the basic nutrients and the importance of water.
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What Nutrients Does My Body Need?
Fourth graders examine roles carbohydrates, protein, fat, and water play in maintaining healthy body, and discuss how food provides fuel (energy) to body, how much fuel body needs, how fuel is used, and what happens to unused fuel.
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Food and Nutrition Review
Students review materials prior to taking a test that includes food preparation. After playing a version of Jeopardy as a review, they fill out lab planning sheets which detail what they plan to prepare, including ingredients and...
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Catering Middle-School Science: Monomers, Polymers, and Macromolecules
Students investigate foods. In this biology lesson plan, students will conduct testing on different types of foods as they learn about different molecules that make them up. Students will also learn about the shapes of the molecules.
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Dietary Supplements and the Chemistry of Life
Students study the effects of dietary supplements on bodily functions. In this health lesson plan students calculate their caloric needs and research dietary supplements.
CCSS Math Activities
Cereal
Your breakfast cereal is a good source of math practice. Young mathematicians apply ratios and percents to analyze the amount of protein and carbohydrates in two brands of cereal. They complete a worksheet to answer several questions on...
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Cellular Respiration: Other Metabolites and Control of Respiration
The feedback mechanisms of metabolism of a variety of substances in the human body. Carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, and their derivatives are explained. The biochemistry required to explain the metabolic balance and feedback controls...
North Syracuse Central School District
Nutrition Label Worksheet
Nutritional labels are everywhere, yet so few of us take the time to use them! Here is a activity that learners can use to practice calculating such features as calories, carbohydrates, and serving size based on real examples of...
American Heart Association
Meet the Calorie
What is a calorie and how does it work? How many calories do we consume in a typical day, and how many do our cells need to function well? Your learners will answer these questions and more using a worksheet, which includes informational...
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Identifying Organic Compounds
In this organic compound lab worksheet, students complete 5 pre-lab questions before testing a variety of common foods to determine which organic compound is present. Once data collection is complete and recoded, they answer 9 analysis...
Cornell University
The Making of Macromolecules
Compare and contrast macromolecules made from the same elements. Young scholars learn how the structure of a molecule has as much influence on a compound as the elements in the molecule. They experiment with molecular model kits to...
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Get Fit for Yosemite - Nutrition
Learners demonstrate an understanding of healthy eating habits and of following a fitness program. They visit Yosemite Institute.
Primary Resources
Eating a Balanced Diet
A perky presentation provides an overview of what comprises a balanced diet. Viewers discover why water is vital to our health, what the macro-nutrients are and what they provide, and how calcium is important to bones and teeth. The...
PBL Pathways
Biscuits
Calculate the nutrients in different types of dog biscuits. Pupils create a technical report outlining the amount of calcium, protein, and carbohydrates in three types of dog biscuits. The project-based learning activity requires...
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Diet Evaluation Project
Young scholars record two consecutive days of food intake. They identify which nutrients are below 70%. They compare diet composition between protein, fats, and carbohydrates. They evaluate fat in the diet to fall below the American...
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Structure and Function of MacroMolecules
Macromolecules such as carbohydrates, steroids, phospholopids are given as examples of polymers and molecules formed with different bonds and specific methods.
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Organic and Biological Compounds
Carbon as a building block for organic compounds is demonstrated by diagrams and facts for its bonding style. Saturated and unstaturated hydrocarbons are detailed and facts about biological compounds such as proteins, nucleic acids,...
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Food for thought
Cake has to be good for something, right? Different foods are used by our bodies in different ways. Learners will first read about what fats, proteins, fruits, and vegetables do for the human body. They will then put each of food shown...
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Molecules of Life
In this molecules worksheet, learners read a 1 page article on molecules and then answer 10 true or false, multiple choice, short answer and/or fill in the blank questions referring to the article.
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Diet and Nutrition
Students figure out the nutritional values of foods to explain the nature of a healthy diet by looking at fast food nutrition pamphlets and calculating the values of foods then comparing them to the food pyramid.
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Who Took Jerell's iPod?
Young scholars investigate various substances to determine the perpetrator of a crime. In this biology lesson, students test for the presence of organic compounds in various samples. They identify an unknown substance based on its...