Best Practices
Matter and Energy Transformations
Big Ideas
Activity asks students to make preliminary judgements about foods and then to investigate the basis for categorizing some as 'nutritious' and others as 'bad'
'Be Label Able' and 'Breads Around the World' come complete with activities, worksheets, and teacher notes
Citric Acid Cycle Story explains the cycle in an innovative way
Diet book report asks students to review a diet book and produce a report on the nutritional value of the diet
'Enzyme Electrophoresis' article from The Science Teacher on a biochemistry lab in which students run and stain agarose gels
Enzyme lab activity uses liver - cooked and raw - to examine the role of enzymes
Enzyme notes for review, including a diagram and one model description
'Food for Thought' looks at societal consumption and need in a global perspective through an activity lab
Grant proposal titled 'Utilizing a Bioassayto Study Agrochemical Persistence in Cultivated Soils', project fully described can be adapted to needed use
Grants for Nutritional Training, two described
Icecream lab described, discuss the transformation of matter
Lab assignment and worksheet designed to introduce students to types of chemical reactions and provide a means of categorizing the reactions
Lab description of an activity asking students to analyze their snack based on the duration of activity required to burn the calories consumed
Lab on enzyme function usess gelatins and cooked vs. fresh products to discover that heat denatures enzymes, described
Lab procedure and worksheet on the presence and measurement of oxygen availability in water to determine the presence or absence of pollution
Lab to investigate the the bnutritional value or 'healthiness' of fast food, described
Nutrition activity with food log and pyramid
Nutrition through art assignment prefaced by nutritional guidelines per the author
Nutritional awareness unit described in general
Ocean currents are explained and examined in introductory material, topical focus, and an activity designed by the Maury Project
Photosynthesis song
Role modeling of electron transport described to assist students in remembering the process and pathways
Several food related assignments asking the student to independently or collaboratively research a topic and report their findings
Students match coomon grocery items to their listed chemical ingredients
The stoichiometry of a reation will be verified through analysis of a copper reaction, includes lab instructions and questions
Volcanoes constructed by students or by the instructer introduce the topic of volcanoes dynamically, instructions and materials for a few models are provided
Weight loss program investigation project asks students to analyze various programs and diets, quiz included at the end
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