Provide students with an opportunity to study the eating habits of human beings over time.
Students can research the dietary habits of people in various countries around the world and in various time periods.
For example, students can study what Americans ate in the 1920s or what people in Brazil eat today.
Students can examine current trends in healthy eating habits and their relationships to how people live their lives.
Students can create a public service announcement to promote healthy eating for school children.
Experience #2:
Provide students with an opportunity to research the digestive system of humans and animals.
Students can study the food chain for various land and sea animals.
Students can hypothesize what would happen if certain animals were missing from the food chain and the impact that would have on the ecosystem as a whole and the eating habits of the animals.
Students can use the skills of creative thinking: substitute, combine, add-to, modify, put to other uses, elaborate, and re-design in order to create their own animal to add to the food chain.
Students will create an illustration of their animal and write a brief essay addressing the following questions:
Where in the food chain does your new animal t?
What are the various impacts of your new animal on the other
animals?
What does your new animal eat? What eats your new animal?
How does your new animal adapt to the conditions of the ecosystem?
Notes to Teacher
Consider integrating one or more of the Cross-Cutting Concepts found in the NGSS standards. These could include – patterns and cause and effect.
This section of the learning experience is not grade level specific. It is however specifically related to the poem and to content standard found in the NGSS in various grade levels.
A feature of this section is to appreciate the relationship between scientific inquiry and creative thinking. In many ways, this relationship has helped
to create productive scientific advancements.
