What is it about?
Measuring the weight and checking foods, students learn the concept of Calories, chemical reactions, and Metabolism. This is one of the hand-on STEM activities, using daily commodities and lives. Students could learn how to estimate Calories derived from foods and also how they would be burnt, carrying out STEM activities.
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Why is it important?
Chemical reactions always occur in human bodies. Being involved to this STEM activities, students could learn the concept and also how to estimate Calorie derived from the metabolism in our human bodies.
Perspectives
Students is expected to learn how to carry out the long term experiments, while they could learn the concept of Calories, chemical reactions, metabolisms, foods and all of their relations among them.
Professor Hideyuki Kanematsu
National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College
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This page is a summary of: Eating Enough, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19234-5_13.
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