Lesson 1.3 - Metabolism

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Multiple Choice

Which card offers higher quality evidence, based on how much evidence was collected?

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Labelling

Evaluating Evidence in the Sorting Tool

With your partner, examine the evidence cards and consider where these cards would be placed on the Evidence Gradient.

Discuss if there are any low-quality pieces of evidence that should be eliminated.

Decide whether this evidence supports or contradicts any of the possible claims about Elisa.

Claims
Elisa is feeling tired:

because she isn’t getting enough sleep.

because she is not eating enough food or not eating the right foods.

because she has a medical condition.

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Evidence Card C

Evidence Card D

Evidence Card A

Evidence Card E

Evidence Card B

Multiple Choice

If Elisa is getting the same amount of sleep as many other people her age, then does lack of sleep explain her tiredness?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

If Elisa is eating the same amounts of food and is eating both starches and proteins like many other people her age, then are her eating habits causing her tiredness?

• Yes

• No

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Reorder

Place the molecules in order from smallest molecules to largest molecules.

• water molecule/oxygen molecule/carbon dioxide molecule

• glucose molecule

• amino acid molecule

• protein molecule

• starch molecule

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Open Ended

Do you think these molecules are larger or smaller than a cell in the human body? Explain your answer.

Poll

I understand what molecules Elisa's cells need and where they come from.

• yes

• not yet

Open Ended

Explain your answer choice.

Poll

I understand how those molecules get to the cells in Elisa’s body.

• yes

• not yet

Open Ended

Explain your answer choice.

Poll

I understand how the cells use those molecules to release energy for Elisa’s body to function.

• yes

• not yet

Open Ended

Explain your answer choice.

Open Ended

What do you still wonder about Elisa’s condition or how her body gets what it needs to function?