The Vitamin Collection: Vitamins

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Activity Description

 

In this activity, students learn the sources, functions, discovery history, deficiency, and excess effects of vitamins. The Molecular Expressions Vitamins Collection contains all of the known vitamins and many biochemicals that were once thought and claimed to be vitamins.

 

Preparation

1. Make sure that the sites are not blocked at your school
2. Review each vitamin link. Some of the vitamins in the past, are not considered vitamins today.

How-To

1. Explain the importance of vitamins
2. Display the Web site shown above.
3. Ask students to select the links for each vitamin (you may choose to select only the most common ones)
4. Let students complete the following list for each vitamin:
   • Chemical explanation
   • Discovery history
   • Deficiency disease and symptoms
   • Excess effects
   • Food source
   • Function
   • Molecular Expressions Vitamins (microscopic art work)
5. To complete the list, they may also need to visit the Web site for the National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements .

Teacher Tips

• The molecular expressions images have no scientific value, but they are a wonderful collection of art created under the microscope.
• You may teach this class in a computer lab or in a classroom with only a teacher's computer/projector.

More Ways

• You may want to use the Molecular Expressions art collection to start a discussion about the microscopic world.

Program Areas

• ASE: High School Diploma

Documents

• The Vitamin Collection.png - Screenshot of The Vitamin Collection homepage

Subjects

• Science
  • Biology
  • Health and Life Science

Standards

• Reading Foundational Skills
  • RF.4 - Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (Fluency)
• Reading
  • CCR Anchor 1 - Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
  • CCR Anchor 4 - Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
  • CCR Anchor 7 - Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

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