SBI3U – Unit Animals:
Structure and Function
Debate
Topic: Digestive System
Lesson Focus/Theme:
Overall Expectation: E1. Analyze the relationships between changing societal needs, technological advances, and
our understanding of internal systems of humans; E2 investigate, through laboratory inquiry or computer
simulation, the functional responses of the respiratory and circulatory systems of animals, and the relationships
between their respiratory, circulatory, and digestive systems; E3. Demonstrate and understanding of animal
anatomy and physiology.
Specific Expectations: E1.1 Evaluate the importance of various technologies, including Canadian contributions, to
our understanding of the internal body systems; E1.2 Assess how societal needs lead to scientific and technological
developments related to internal systems; E2.1 Use appropriate terminology related to animal anatomy; E3.2
explain the anatomy of the digestive system and the importance of digestion in providing nutrients for energy and
growth
Learning Goals: Understand how lifestyle choices affect the obesity epidemic. Use knowledge gained from the
Recent Research Assignment to strengthen your points in the debate. Communicate your views and beliefs about
the surgery and use correct terminology.
Lesson Outline (Description of Teaching/Learning Activities)
1
0
Minds On
(Elicit and
Engage)
Introductory
or Starter
Activity
- Distribute the article entitled “Canadian teens who are
severely obese because of medical conditions will be
offered weight-loss surgery as part of a new program”.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2010/02/05/obesitysurgery-children.html
Assessment
AAL
Materials
and
Resources
-CBC news
article
-Summarize the article after everyone has had a chance to
read. Which key points have the students noticed and
which ones have they missed?
Action!
3
0
(Explore and
Explain)
Main Activity
or Activities
of the Lesson
Debate
-Students have already seen the debate questions in the
article so they could think of points and pull out key
information from the text.
AFL/AAL
-Divide the class into two groups. One side will be in
favour of having the bariatric surgery for youth and view
technology as an advancement that helps save youth and
gives them a better quality of life. The other side will be
in favour of restricting the surgery to only adults and view
technology as an alternative way to avoid exercising.
-Notice how
the groups formulate and communicate their
points. Are they using proper terminology, thinking in a
logical manner, including points that have been
researched?
Consolidate
Ticket out the door:
-Tables and
chairs.
5
-After this debate, which side are you on and why?
AFL
Ticket out the
door distributed
after debate.