Standards & Objectives
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Module Objectives
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.
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