Are Sports Drinks For You?

are sports drinks for you?

Unit overview: Students will investigate and discover the differences between sports and energy drinks and recognise the advantages and disadvantages of their uses.
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Main Scientific Principle Within this unit: The Students will understand the effect of sport drinks on human bodies.

Author(s): Linda Manley

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Band: Middle Years

Strand: Matter

Duration: Approximately 7 - 8 x 1hr sessions

Standards: 3 & 4

Published: September 2002

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Context: Main Scientific Principle of the unit: The Students will understand the effect of sport drinks on human bodies.

Scientific Ideas within the Strand: Different materials have different properties, and these properties determine their uses. Patterns of interaction of materials enable us to understand and control these interactions.

Key Idea:
1. ‘Students communicate understandings about the properties and personal uses of materials…. current patterns of use’.
For this unit >>>> (Students communicate understandings about the properties and personal uses of specific substances, in this case, ingredients).

2. ‘Students pose questions to investigate ways in which physical and chemical processes can be altered to achieve desirable outcomes; such as food preservation’.> For this unit >>>> (Students pose questions to investigate ways in which physical and chemical processes can be altered to achieve desirable outcomes; such as energy levels in the human body).

Elements of the SACSA Framework

Essential Learnings

Key Competencies

Outcome (SACSA Standards)

Futures

Interdependence

Thinking

Communication

Link to SACSA Essential Learnings

KC1: Collecting, analysing and organising. Information

KC2: Communicating ideas and information.

KC3: Planning and organising activities.

List all Key Competencies

Outcome 3.7
Describes the structure of some common substances, explains how substances are used for different purposes, and understands their impact on the human body.

Outcome 4.7
Compares properties of substances before and after physical or chemical change by planning, conducting, evaluating and communicating an investigation.

Outcome 4.8
Recognises and describes conditions that influence reactions or change in substances.