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:
