Understand that nutrients in food are assimilated into the human body. (This is a topic for discussion in the garden.)
THEME: Nourishment: Feeding Our Mind and Body with What It Needs to Stay Healthy and Flourish
STRAND: Food and Nourishment
GRADE LEVEL: 6-8
Key Concepts
Know that cells use sugars to make energy (ATP), how nutrients in food are assimilated into the body and used for physical movement (cellular respiration).
Lesson
Explain how human cells use sugars to make energy (ATP).
Explain how nutrients in food are assimilated into the body and used for physical movement as in cellular respiration. Describe cellular respiration.
Activity
Design a shredder that breaks down plants.
Plants build the sugars up, and humans break them down.