Students will graph data. Students will create 4-level questions related to their data and the data of the rest of the class. Students will write a RAFT persuasive paper using their knowledge of the digestive system. This activity would occur after the group studying the digestive system has presented their information. Students know how to measure using a meter stick.
Students can set up and solve proportions.
Students have had experience graphing data. Students have had experience writing 4-level questions from written information or data. Students have had experience writing RAFT papers. The teacher provides the student with a Role, Audience, Format and Topic to use to write a paper. Students are asked to write what they would estimate is the length of their entire digestive tract.