Students will understand the roles genetics, food storage and culture play in determining diet and stature. Students will use the scientific method to investigate questions about diet and health. Student work should demonstrate awareness of cultural influences on diet and of diet on stature and health in history. Obtain contents of one or more anonymous student's backpack.
Students develop a hypothesis about who the student is from contents of the backpack.
Discuss food patterns of the cultures. Invite guest speaker from each culture to participate in panel discussion. Each panelist tells about their own food traditions and how they carry the traditions on. Students select one cultural group to research. Students select one of the foods on the list and research the origin of that food.