Teaching Tennessee, CTE Task: Online Nutrition Debate

Overview

• Career Cluster: Human Services 
• Program of Study: Dietetics and Nutrition 
• Course name(s): Nutrition Across the Lifespan 
• Main topic: nutrition, debate 

Standard

Standard 13) Synthesize evidence from multiple sources to analyze topics in nutrition, including but not limited to:  

• The use of genetically modified foods
• Artificial sweeteners versus natural sugar
• Organic and local food movements 
• Benefits and risk of different forms of dieting 
• Use of probiotics

Evaluate the validity and credibility of source materials and deduce the principle arguments for each, carefully weighing the author’s evidence against potential biases. 

*Each group will be given a different debate topic from the standard.  

Resources

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