Tuesday & Wednesday, 9/22 & 23: Visualize Good Health

Opening: Lab Procedures

Worktime: Visualize Good Health

Closing: Identify the Foods

HW: Study for the Test

Today we are rotating to each lab table, where we will find containers of each type of nutrient that can be found on a nutrition facts label (saturated fat, unsaturated fat, protein, carbohydrates, sugar, fiber, and sodium). You will weigh each nutrient and record your data in this table here, and then your group will decide whether each food is healthy or unhealthy, based on the nutrients in the food.

This activity will let you SEE what unhealthy food looks like. You will be able to see that it is very fatty or just sugar. You should be able to quickly identify healthy and unhealthy foods just by looking at the nutrients that the food contains.

After you rotate through all 8 stations, you will be given this sheet, and you will use it to identify the foods that were represented at each lab table.

There will be a test to wrap up the nutrition unit on Thursday (for even periods) or Friday (for odd periods). Try out this practice test to see what type of knowledge and skills you need to have to succeed on the test:

Friday, 9/18: Bill Nye Digestion Video

I am out sick today. You watched the Bill Nye video on Digestion and completed a quiz during the video.

Understanding how digestion works is the link between what we are learning about nutrition and learning about how your body works, from microscopic cells to entire organ systems.

Wednesday & Thursday, 9/16 & 9/17: Nutrition Facts

Opening: calories wrap-up

Worktime: Nutrition Facts

Closing: posters

HW: 1-day Food Log - On a piece of paper, keep track of EVERYTHING you eat and drink for an entire day. Here is an example of a food log.

Here are the guided notes for today's lesson on nutrition facts.

This presentation will teach you about nutrition facts and how to determine healthy and unhealthy foods:

Monday & Tuesday, 9/14 & 15: Calories

Opening: Go over test

Worktime: Calorimetry

Closing: What is a calorie?

HW: Bring in a nutrition label from something you eat or drink.

Today we are starting by going over the test on organ systems that we took last week. Many students earned an "incomplete" and need to retake the test. Please study your notes and correct your test using this correction form before you retake your test.

We will see who was the perpetrator of the crime from our CSI unit.

We are going to take a pre-test to see what you already know about food and nutrition before we get started with a nutrition unit. If you are absent, you need to complete this because we will be revisiting this pre-test by doing a reflection at the end of the unit in two weeks. Please see the pre-test here.

We are going to do a calorimetry experiment to determine how many calories are in a macadamia nut. You can download the laboratory activity worksheet here. Below is an explanation of how we are doing this experiment:

And here is a video of Homer Simpson learning about calories in a traumatic way:

Tuesday and Wednesday, 9/8 & 9/9

Opening: Review Evidence

Worktime: Finish profiles

Closing: Qwizdom review

HW: Study for test on respiratory, nervous, & circulatory systems

There is a test on organ systems on Thursday, 9/10 for periods 2, 4, & 6 and on Friday, 9/11 for periods 1, 3, & 5. Please study your "Understanding Handy's Autopsy" guided notes to review the material that will be on the test.

We are finishing our CSI crime profiles in class today. If your group needs more time to finish the profiles, you must schedule an appointment with me so you can come into my room and finish up. I will be grading the CSI profiles on Friday.

Below is a quick practice test for the test on Thursday/Friday. These are sample questions, and they may appear on the test. If you know the answers to all of these questions, then you are probably ready for the test.

Wednesday and Thursday, 9/2 & 9/3: Coroner's Report

Opening: Coroner's Report
Worktime: Making Sense
Closing: Crime Profiles
HW: Get the donorschoose.org permission form signed.

Today we are reading the coroner's report (remember: this is FICTIONAL) from the autopsy in our crime scene investigation unit. We are watching a presentation and filling out guided notes to help us understand what the report says.

Please get your permission form signed so that we can thank our donors on donorschoose.org

(Parents: If you do not wish to allow your child's picture or thank you notes to be sent to our donors, please write "No thank you" on the permission form. This is completely acceptable.)

Monday and Tuesday, 8/31 & 9/1: CSI crime profiles

Today we are building crime profiles. Crime profiles are reports of all of the evidence taken from the crime scene, including photographs, measurements, and descriptions.

Homework: Explain your theory of how the crime occurred.