One Small Bite for Man is a project-based STEM activity that explores cellular respiration and will engage your students in the engineering design process while using TI-Nspire™ CX with the TI-Innovator™ Hub.

Students will research science topics including:

• Energy and material flow in cellular respiration.
• Animal cell organelles.
• The effects of Body Mass Index and activity level have on energy usage (calories consumed).

• Mitochondria
• Cellular Respiration
• Calories
• Body Mass Index (BMI)

Your students are asked to play the role of a horticultural engineer on the International Space Station (ISS) who has been researching food production for extended space exploration missions. Students will design and build a model of an astronaut that consumes energy according to the BMI and activity level assigned in simulation of a space work environment

As a result, students will:

• Use their model to investigate how Body Mass Index (BMI) and activity affect a person's daily food requirements.
• Will use mathematical processes of:
  • Area of a rectangle
  • Slope of a line
  • Interpreting graphs
  • Proportional reasoning