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Healthy Decision-making
Healthy Decision-making
Standard: H8.2
Standard: H8.2
Students will use effective interpersonal communication skills to enhance health or reduce health risks. Students will assess the validity of health information and resources.
Students will track their nutritional intake and physical activity for one or two weeks and will then compare their own experience to that of astronauts in space. Utilizing the information from choosemyplate.gov, students will have a deeper understanding of what it takes to keep a person healthy. Once they have finished tracking their own health needs they will be able to research the nutritional needs of astronauts.
A Day in the Life of an Astronaut
A Day in the Life of an Astronaut
Standard NGSS Practice Standard Analyzing and interpreting data & Engaging in Argument from Evidence
Standard NGSS Practice Standard Analyzing and interpreting data & Engaging in Argument from Evidence
"Analyzing data progresses to extending quantitative analysis to investigations, distinguishing between correlation and causation, and basic statistical techniques of data and error analysis. Engaging in argument from evidence progresses to constructing a convincing argument that supports or refutes claims for either explanations or solutions about the natural and designed world(s)" (NGSS Lead States, 2013).
Students will use these two websites to learn about a day in the life of an astronaut. Using this information and that of their own nutritional and physical needs, they will complete a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the similarities and difference between staying healthy here on Earth and after prolonged space travel and life on the space station. To be successful, students will need a solid foundation of knowledge about their own healthy decisions in order to compare them to the decisions and planning necessary for an astronaut to survive in space.
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