Demystifying the Sugar Buzz. Overview: Buying healthy, or organic, produce can be expensive. This infographic from Whole Foods provides steps on using food scraps to easily regrow food. To demonstrate food upcycling, choose one of the foods listed in the infographic - like green onions, celery or sweet potatoes - and create a food garden in your classroom.
Healthy eating is an effective way to prevent childhood obesity. These food science experiments are designed to encourage students to think about the foods they eat and how they affect their body. You can also check out our Healthy Choices Play Food Set to further help students practice making healthy food choices. Watermelon is a refreshing fruit that is packed with nutrients, like vitamins and amino acids.
Watermelon cupcakes are a tasty, healthy snack for kids. Behavioral and Social Science. Healthy Living. Burning Calories. Measuring Fat in Food. Getting Enough Vitamin C. You Are What You Eat. Use a homemade calorimeter to compare the amount of Calories chemical energy in foods. Learn about different types of fats and use a solvent to extract fats from potato chips, chocolate, and almonds.
Are all orange juices the same when it comes to Vitamin C? Experiment to find which juice has the most Vitamin C. Explore the connection between eating healthy foods and improving sports performance. A Day in the Life of Your Heart. Heart Rate Recovery Times. Exercising Your Heart. How Blood Flows. Track your heart rate throughout the day to see which activities cause it to beat faster. Experiment to find out if athletes have faster heart rate recovery times than non-athletes.
Track your pulse after different activities to find out which activities elevate your heart rate most.
Older adults are more at risk of developing dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders for which there is no cure, which is why prevention is so important.
Their research demonstrates that strategies for prevention are effective and a social prescribing approach to healthcare can help people maintain healthy cognitive function as they age. Materials provided by Simon Fraser University.
Original written by Melissa Shaw. Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Science News. Healthy memory aging - the benefits of regular daily activities increase with age. Activities Investigate how muscles work in pairs biceps and triceps using a bottle of water as a weight.
Investigate the question — Do some people have stronger muscles because they use them more? With guidance, decide what data to collect, how to tabulate it and how to share out the work in the group. With guidance display data as a scattergram and use it to look for a pattern in the data.
Objectives Learn how the diaphragm is used in breathing and build an instrument to measure lung capacity. Working Scientifically Set up simple practical enquiries and comparative and fair tests. Make systematic and careful observations and, where appropriate, taking accurate measurements using standard units. Provided Resources Printouts of task sheet and support sheets in case they are needed Additional Resources 2 X 5 litre water bottle with caps 2 x 70cm of clear plastic tubing 2 large clear plastic containers e.
Teaching Know the diaphragm is used in breathing and the lungs transfer oxygen to the blood. Know that muscles need more oxygen to work hard and this affects breathing rate. Plan and carry out an investigation in groups to answer a specific given question. Activities Learn what lung capacity means and how to make an instrument to measure it in litres.
Plan and carry out a practical investigation in groups that attempts to answer a scientific question. Display and interpret data collected to either confirm or reject predictions and seek to explain findings.
Vocabulary Lungs, diaphragm, lung capacity, investigate, measure, compare. Objectives Test and review all your knowledge on Health and Fitness gained so far. Working Scientifically Report on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions. Identify differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes. Teaching Assess knowledge and understanding of the Year 3 Animals Including Humans content taught in this block.
Report back to clients on all their health questions using oral explanations backed up by scientific knowledge and research, demonstrations, notes, graphs and charts. Activities Undertake a quiz that assesses all their knowledge and understanding on the block. Give an illustrated presentation to clients on health and fitness, answering all their questions using resources they have made throughout the block and evidence from their own research.
Reflect on their own life and consider positive changes they could make to improve their health and fitness.
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