7.3 - Metabolic Reactions

Unit Objectives...

Metabolic Reactions - How do things inside our bodies work together to make us feel the way we do?

• ​​Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures. (SC.7.3.1.A)

• Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred. (SC.7.5.2.A)

• Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells (SC.6.6.2.C)

• Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism (SC.7.8.4.B)

• Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms. (SC.6.9.3.B)