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  • Students use scientific inquiry to explore the problem of obesity.
  • Students demonstrate an understanding of the digestion of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins.
  • Students understand the use of energy to maintain the body.
  • Students demonstrate an understanding of the conservation of energy as demonstrated by the relationship between energy input in the terms of food and energy output in the form of body metabolism and exercise.
  • Students demonstrate an understanding of the effect of obesity on ndividual and community health.
  • Students understand the public economic implications of obesity.
  • Students demonstrate an understanding of how they learned about obesity using computational science.
  • Students use technology tools to collaborate and publish their work.
  • Students use technology to gather information.
  • Students demonstrate the use of technology in suggesting solutions for the obesity problem.
  • Students will demonstrate an ability to detect important variables in the problem of obestiy.
  • Students will demonstrate an understanding of the relationships between variables.
  • Students will be able to manipulate the equations and graphs of the obesity variables.
  • Students will demonstrate an understanding of the statistics of obestiy.
  • Students will be able to develop, manipulate, understand, and explain a mathematical model of obesity.
  • Students will demonstrate an ability to make accurate measurements using appropriate units and significant digits.
  • Students will be able to formulate questions that can be answered by experimentation and display that data for the understanding of others.