Project Title: Sugar, Sugar Everywhere
Mission:
What is the impact of sugar in our lives?
Culminating / Take Action Project
Write a picture book to inform people about the positive and negative impacts of sugar on our food and our health, and compel them to take action.Â
What Kids Learn
In this project, students will explore the impact of sugar on their lives. Students first learn and explore the properties of substances through the lens of sugar. Students explore the properties of sugar to discover why it is found in so many unexpected foods. Then, they learn about how sugar can be helpful and harmful to the human body. Students use the information they gather to decide whether sugar is a hero or a villain in the food world. Finally, students take action by creating a picture book to inform their loved ones about the impact of sugar on their lives or to encourage them to take action.Â
Overview
Life Habit Focus: Curiosity
Subject: Physical and Life Science, ELA
Grade: 3-5
Topic: Properties of matter, physical and chemical changes and plants and energy.
Project preview
Project Materials
Project Module
Student Notebook
Teacher's Guide
Materials List
Virtual Field Trips
One of our goals is to help kids connect what they are learning in our projects to the real world beyond the classroom. To do that, we’ve partnered with experts to help students learn from and virtually visit with experts from around the world. The “Sugar, Sugar Everywhere project partners with:
Zolli Candy CEO, Alina Morse
In this module, students meet Alina Morse. She is the founder and CEO of Zolli Candy. Alina got the idea for Zolli Candy, a zero-sugar candy, when she was just 7 years old. Alina shares her experience as the CEO of Zolli Candy, explaining why she believes zero-sugar candy can make a difference in our health, and offers advice on how every young person can make a positive impact in the world.Â
Author, Caron Levis
In their Take Action Project, students meet author and children’s book writer Caron Levis. Caron will teach students about what it means to be an author, how to craft a powerful story by showing rather than telling, and selecting the right words to describe their story.Â
Aligned Standards
Common Core Reading (CCSS):
- Informational/Nonfiction Standards R.I. 1-10 for grades 3-5
- Reading Literacy Standard L 5 & 6 for grades 3-5
- Writing Standards W. 1,4,5 for grades 3-5
- Listening and Speaking Standards SL. 1-6 for grades 3-5
NGSS Standards:
Performance Expectations (PE):
- 5-PS1-1. Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.Â
- 5-PS1-2. Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved.
- 5-PS1-3. Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
- 5-PS1-4. Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
- 5-PS3-1. Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, and motion and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
Science and Engineering Practices (SEP):
- Planning and Carrying Out Investigations
- Asking Questions and Defining Problems
- Developing and using models.Â
- Analyzing and interpreting data.Â
Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI):
- PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter
- Matter of any type can be subdivided into particles that are too small to see, but even then the matter still exists and can be detected by other means. A model showing that gasses are made from matter particles that are too small to see and are moving freely around in space can explain many observations, including the inflation and shape of a balloon and the effects of air on larger particles or objects.
- The amount (weight) of matter is conserved when it changes form, even in transitions in which it seems to vanish.
- Measurements of a variety of properties can be used to identify materials. (Boundary: At this grade level, mass and weight are not distinguished, and no attempt is made to define the unseen particles or explain the atomic-scale mechanism of evaporation and condensation.)
- PS1.B: Chemical Reactions.
- No matter what reaction or change in properties occurs, the total weight of the substances does not change. (Boundary: Mass and weight are not distinguished at this grade level.)
- When two or more different substances are mixed, a new substance with different properties may be formed.
- PS3.D: Energy in Chemical Processes and Everyday Life
- The energy released [from] food was once energy from the sun that was captured by plants in the chemical process that forms plant matter (from air and water).
- LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms
- Food provides animals with the materials they need for body repair and growth and the energy they need to maintain body warmth and for motion. (secondary)
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