Unit 6.3: "You Are What You Eat": Nutrition and the Chemistry of Digestion
In this unit, students learn that our bodies break down the food we eat to grow and gain energy, and what happens to food as it moves through the digestive system. Throughout the unit, students use hands-on activities and experiments to generate data to analyze and interpret, use and create models to show the physical and chemical reactions that occur as we eat and digest food and other unobservable mechanisms, and conclude the unit by designing a solution that meets specific design criteria and constraints.
Unit Challenge Question: How does what we eat affect our health and well-being?
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