Is It a Food? Worksheet
I used an activity called “Is It a Food?” to engage students and introduce them to the new section in biology that we would be studying: organic macromolecules. Students received a short worksheet (see below) that directed them first to read over a list of items, and then check off what they would label as “food,” and finally write a scientific definition for food. Students worked quietly by themselves at first. My classroom mentor and I walked around the classroom to check on student work and challenge students with questions such as: Why did you mark that? What qualities are you considering when you choose? Could you arrive at a scientific definition of a food yet?