Living Earth · Week 29 · Structure, Function, and Health
Healthy Choices, Healthy Systems
Analyzing data on sleep and memory to make one evidence based health decision.
- Students will
- Students analyze data on sleep and memory to describe how choices affect body systems and make an evidence based health decision.
- SEL skill
- Use feelings as information alongside data to make a health decision
- What it looks like
- Students use their feelings as information to think through a decision.
- Content focus
- Data for healthy choices
- Format
- Think write pair share
Responsible decision-making
Responsible decision-making is choosing what to do by weighing ethics, safety, and the likely consequences for yourself and others. More responsible decision-making activities
What you get
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Standards
- 2.7.P: Personal and Community Health, Standard 2 (Analyzing Health Influences), item 2.7.P
- Science and engineering practice: SEP4 Analyzing and interpreting data
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.3 Follow a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments or taking measurements.
- Traditional course: Biology
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- Energy Pyramids and Waste Responsible decision-makingCalculating energy loss up a food pyramid and weighing food choices with care rather than guilt.
- Natural Selection by the Numbers Responsible decision-makingAnalyzing trait frequency data across generations and separating evidence from assumption when making decisions.
- Sources of Variation Responsible decision-makingArguing whether meiosis, replication errors, or environmentally caused mutations best explain inherited variation, and pausing on strong feelings before choosing a claim.
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