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Salt and Diet Instructional VideoSalt and Diet Instructional Video
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9th - 12th
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6:02
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10 mins
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Salt and Diet

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Salt is necessary for your diet, but too much or too little and it causes health problems. These problems, as well as what salt does in your body, are the focus of a video that also looks at where salt is found in food and how much salt individuals should be eating. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

salt, diet, healthy eating, nutritional needs, iodine, food preservation, hypertonic solutions, dehydration, blood pressure

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Show pupils the nutrition labels on foods and display how much salt each has in piles
  • Have scholars track how much salt they are eating every day for a week; allow them to turn this information in individually rather than sharing with the class

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires prior knowledge of salt from the previous videos in the series
  • Video is the 20th in a series of 21

Pros

  • Includes a cue to pause and think about a question before continuing the video
  • Offers detailed diagrams of the result of eating too much salt on your blood stream

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4

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