Linking Food and the Environment (LiFE)

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Choice, Control, & Change (C3) (grades 6, 7, or 8)

In Choice, Control, & Change you and your class will embark on an exciting
adventure— learning science through studying our diet and activity choices. By
investigating the question, How can we use scientific evidence to help us make
healthful food and activity choices?, students learn about how the human body works
and how food and activity play a crucial role in its well-being— critical ideas in science.
They engage in hands-on investigations of food preference, our food environment,
energy intake and expenditure— often termed “dynamic equilibrium” of the human
body, lifestyle related diseases, and more. Students explore and analyze their personal
food choices through scientific reasoning, and they apply what they have learned
through personal decisions related to their diet, physical activity, and overall health.

The Choice, Control, & Change teacher manual includes:

• Lesson plans with helpful background information, practical teaching tips, and
  tools for assessment
  
  
• Student activity sheets and readings
  
  
• A matrix that maps Choice, Control, & Change to the National Science Education
  Standards and Benchmarks for Science Literacy

 

Click here for Lesson 15 Keeping the Flow

Driving Question:
Module: How can we use scientific evidence to help us make healthful food and activity choices?

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Making Science Real, Meaningful, and Successful
Getting Acquainted with LiFE
Materials
Science Standards Matrices

Unit 1: Questioning Our Choices

Driving Question: What influences our food and activity choices?
Lesson 1: As a Matter of Choice
Lesson 2: What we Like
Lesson 3: Our Food Environment
Lesson 4: Research in the Community

Unit 2: Bodies in Motion

Driving Question: How can we make sure that we get the right amount of energy to help our bodies do what we want them to?
Lesson 5: Making the Case
Lesson 6: Inside Calvin
Lesson 7: Burning Up
Lesson 8: Balancing Act
Lesson 9: My Body

Unit 3: Moving Toward Health

Driving Question: How can we use personal data to help us make healthful food and activity choices?
Lesson 10: Energy In
Lesson 11: Energy Out
Lesson 12: Selecting Goal
Lesson 13: How to Do It

Unit 4: Body Science

Driving Question: Why are healthful food and activity choices important for our bodies?
Lesson 14: Keeping it Pumping
Lesson 15: Keeping the Flow
Lesson 16: Fighting Syndrome X
Lesson 17: For the Health of It

Unit 5: Maintaining Competence

Driving Question: How can I maintain my skills as a competent eater and mover?
Lesson 18: Bringing It All Together
Lesson 19: Sharing the Health

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