The Teacher Guide is the driving and unifying component of this unit, Metabolic Reactions. The subtitle of this unit is How do things inside our bodies work to make us feel the way we do? Our sense of how our bodies feel throughout the day phenomena that students experience when they wake up, walk, run, feel hungry, and eat the wrong foods and the right foods. What is causes these bodily feelings to happen? How do we digest the food we eat? What is food, chemically? What happens to those chemicals in the body? This unit allows students to observe this phenomenon in detail and then start asking questions, formulating explanations, setting up and conducting activities and research, and working with classmates to analyze the shared experience and formulate new questions and developing new strategies for answering them.

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