Spring Project Are You What You Eat?
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This internet project will allow students to share information about their daily food intake. Everyday students will eat many different types of food. Some they like and some they dislike. We will help determine whether the theory that our food preferences are formed by the time we are born is being replaced by the "Super Tasters" concept. This theory suggests that some of our basic food preferences are determined by the number of tastebuds on our tongue. This project will help us see if the "Super Taster" theory is correct.MATH Lesson 1: Students will use the rules of averaging to determine how to evenly distribute a bag of Hershey's Kisses.
Step 1: Class will divide into groups of four.
Step 2: Each student will receive a sandwich bag.
Each group will receive a lunch bag.
Class will receive Hershey's Kisses from a 2lb bag
Step 3: What was the average Kisses that each group recieved?
Lesson 2: Students will be able to create a graph and explain its contents.
Step 1: Class will divide into groups of four.
Step 2: Each student will receive a bag of M & Ms
Step 3: Each student will predict the most common and least common color in their M & Ms bag.
Step 4: Each student will count and tally each color.
Step 5: Each group will combine their individual count and come up with a group tally of each color.
Step 6: Each group must create a circle or bar graph showing the information that they gathered.Click Here To See Student Work for Math Lesson II
Science
Lesson 1: Students will be able to match the steps of the scientific method to its definition.
Key Question: Why do you think the steps of the scientific method are important?
Step 1: Distribute cards to the students. ( 7 with scientific method and 7 with definitions)
Step 2: Students will match the scientific method with the definitions.
Lesson 2: Students will be able to demonstrate the order and the steps of the scientific method.
Step 1: Divide class into groups of four.
Step 2: Each group will get two food items and a stopwatch.
Step 3: Each group will drop the items and time how long each one takes to hit the floor.
Step 3: Decide how this experiment applies to the scientific method.
Lesson 3: Students will be able to categorize the food they eat on the food pyramid.
Key Questions: Is your diet balanced?
Why should we eat more of certain types of food than other
types of food?