Changing lifestyles and heart health
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A lesson plan for Grades 9–12 AP Biology
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- Appropriate grades
- 9–12
- Subjects
- healthful living (physical health/disease prevention), science (biology and life science)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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In this Science NetLinks lesson, students examine and evaluate changes in diet and lifestyle from prehistoric to modern times and how these differences have spurred the development (and better treatment) of heart disease. They then use their knowledge in a debate between students representing hunter-gatherers and modern students. Students also critically examine their own diets.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grades 9–12 — Advanced Placement Biology
- Goal 6: The learner will develop an understanding of the unity and diversity of life.
- Objective 6.05: Examine the structure and function of plants and animals.
- Analyze reproduction, growth, and development.
- Patterns
- Adaptations (e.g. alternation of generations).
- Regulation as by hormones.
- Recommended laboratory - Transpiration
- Analyze structural, physiological, and behavioral adaptations.
- Cell level.
- Tissue level.
- Organ level.
- Interactions between levels of organization.
- Recommended laboratories - Physiology of the Circulatory System, Animal Behavior
- Identify responses to the environment.
- Objective 6.05: Examine the structure and function of plants and animals.
Healthful Living Education (2006)
Grades 9–12
- Goal 4: The learner will apply knowledge and behavior self-management skills to areas of nutrition and physical activity for healthy growth, development, and maintenance.
- Objective 4.01: Delineate how healthy eating and physical activity can reduce the risk for chronic diseases (e.g. obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and osteoporosis).
