Energy, Environment, and Health

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.07.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Demographic Information
  3. Rationale
  4. Background Information for Teachers
  5. Content Objectives
  6. Teaching Strategies and Classroom Activities with List of Teaching Materials
  7. Subunit 1: Food Processing
  8. Subunit 2: Marketing and the American Diet
  9. Subunit 3: Comparing Local Student Diets to Global Diets
  10. Resources
  11. Appendix A: Implementing District Standards
  12. Appendix B: Resources for Curriculum Unit
  13. Endnotes

Processed Food for Thought: Exploring Chemical Additives in Processed Foods

Ann Makiko Shioji

Published September 2012

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Appendix A: Implementing District Standards

California Biology Standards Covered by the Unit

This unit will be taught after students have gained basic understanding of the following concepts: cells, enzymes, biochemistry, macromolecules and their subunits, the definition of calories, research methods, graphing, calculations, and the scientific method.

The Common Core Standards that will be addressed in this unit are as follows:

RST.9-10.1.Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions

RST.9-10.2.Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; trace the text's explanation or depiction of a complex process, phenomenon, or concept; provide an accurate summary of the text.

RST.9-10.3.Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.

RST.9-10.7. Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.

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