Procedure
a. Look through your Exit ticket question answers, Notes and Scientific Principles list, and review the major findings so far in this unit. Write out the major claim you want to make in this explanation.
b. Go through your notes and circle or highlight any of the data that support the claim. Use the Scientific Principles list to help determine which data are related to the claim.
c. Your explanation should include how the food gets to where it is used and how it is used. You should include how the systems you have investigated interact to get the food where it needs to be used.
d. The parts of the explanation should be as follows:
⢠ClaimāA statement about what happened. The claim is what helps people to understand and believe.
⢠EvidenceāData that support the claim. The evidence is data you have gathered that provide support that makes the claim believable.
⢠ReasoningāThe logic that leads from the evidence to the claim and, if possible, connects it with a scientific principle. The reasoning says why the claim makes sense, given what scientists know about the world.
e. Use the space provided to develop the parts of your explanation.
Your claim/answer: In my body, food is used in the small intestine.
Evidence: I know that food is used in the small intestine because in lesson 4, it had explained that the organ that the food gets digested down to its simplest molecules was the small intestine. This shows us that the stomach stores swallowed food or liquids which mixes them with the digestive juice that it produces.
Scientific Principles: The scientific principle that relates to the claim is number 6, which says āIn cells, there is a chemical reaction involving glucose and oxygen that releases energy."
f. Write your explanation as a complete, convincing paragraph in the box below: