The question that I posed on the Ask a Scientist website was,is there any type of diet that would effect how quickly the ATP is drained from our cells, and would that have any benefits on our health? I asked the same question in our discussion for that week and I found that my colleagues gave me just as good of answers as I received from the website. I was pretty much given the same answers by both. I was provided with a link to a couple of good articles on the subject which I found to be very useful. I was able to read those articles and deepen my understanding of how ATP works in our body, and how nutrition can affect ATP. At this point in time I would not use the Ask a Scientist website with my students, because I teach Kindergarten. The only way that I could use it was if we came up with a question together and I posted it. When we got our answer I could then read to them the response. The only problem with that would be that the questions that we would come up with I could probably find the answers very easily myself. I would mainly use it as a way to show my students that there is a way that you can connect with scientists out there in the world. That might be useful for them.
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ReplyDeleteI am glad you found a way that you could use this site with kindergarten. I would think it would be nice if you have access to an LCD or smartboard and read to the class what the scientist said. They could watch you post it too. I think it would be interesting for them to see.