You Are What You Eat Culminating Event
You Are What You Eat Culminating Event
You Are What You Eat Culminating Event
Americans spend billions of dollars trying to achieve their optimal level of health. Some individuals work to
become better athletes, building muscle mass and enhancing their endurance. Some individuals work to
maintain their healthy body composition. Others work to reduce their weight in order to improve their health.
Weight loss programs and “quick fix” diets often claim to provide an easy way to achieve a slimmer, trimmer,
healthier body. Many specialized diets include a restriction in the amount of sugar consumed by the individual.
Why is sugar targeted in many specialized diets?
Task: You will assume the role of a nutritionist and create a brochure to educate the public about the roles of
sugar in a healthy diet.
Crosscutting Concepts
Energy and Matter
Describe the energy transformations that occur
during photosynthesis and cellular respiration
Describe how energy is used in the body
Patterns
Show the conservation of atoms in chemical reactions
Compare the atoms in sugar and the atoms in other
carbon-based molecules
Science and Engineering Practices
Constructing Explanations
Use valid and reliable sources of evidence from a
variety of sources to explain the key features and/or
restrictions of specific specialized diets
Apply scientific ideas, principles and/or evidence to
explain why the amount and/or type of carbohydrates
ingested are affected by specific specialized diets
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Scientific
Information
Gather, read, and evaluate scientific and/or technical
information about specialized diets from multiple
reliable sources
Evaluate the pros and cons of specialized diets
Developing and Using Models
Describe how glucose is formed during
photosynthesis
Describe how glucose is chemically broken down
during cellular respiration
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms
(LS1.C) and Definitions of Energy (PS3.A)
Describe the roles of sugar in the human body
Include the chemical processes that form and break
apart sugar
Describe the transfer of energy that occurs during
photosynthesis and cellular respiration
Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems (LS2.B)
Explain why humans need to eat food
Explain why a person would choose to follow a specific specialized
diet