Choice, Control & Change (LiFE 3)-GD

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Students learn how an understanding of biology, built environment, and personal behaviors impact weight and health. Students collect data about the world around them and their own eating and physical activity behaviors to understand their choices, take control, and make positive changes. The module's driving question How can we use scientific evidence to help us make healthful food and activity choices? frames students' investigations of how the human body works and how food and activity play a crucial role in our well-being critical ideas in science. Students engage in hands-on investigations of "dynamic equilibrium" energy intake and expenditure. They explore food preference, their food environment, lifestyle-related diseases, and more. Students examine their personal food choices and use scientific reasoning to analyze what they find out. Finally, they apply what they have learned by making personal decisions related to their diet, physical activity.