http://www.teachengineering.org/view_lesson.php?url=collection/duk_/lessons/duk_foodiron_music_less/duk_foodiron_music_less.xmllessontext/xmlEngineering K-Ph.D. Program, foodmineralsironnutritionMineralIronCalciumPotassiumZincFortifyMagnet

In this lesson, students will learn that minerals are a necessary part of our diet. They will learn that different minerals have different functions in the body. More specifically, they will discover that iron is necessary to carry oxygen around the body. In the associated activity, students will design a process that removes the most iron from the cereal.

One of the many things that food engineers do is fortify cereals and other foods with different minerals that are important to our diets. In this lesson, students will learn about how the food engineers fortify foods. Then, in the associated activity, the students will design a process to reverse engineer an iron-fortified cereal to determine how much iron it contains. State that minerals are an important part of our diet. Know that different minerals have different rolls in our health and state some of them. Describe why iron is an important part of our diet. List several foods that contain iron. Describe why food engineers add iron and other minerals to cereal. State that the iron in our cereal is the same iron that is attracted to magnets. 1TeachEngineering.orgLiz HarperDietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Iron. Updated July 26, 2005. Office of Dietary Supplements. National Institute of Health. Accessed April 26, 2007.http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/minerals.htmlhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000560.htmGuidelines for Iron Fortification of Cereal Food Staples. May 2001. Sustain: Sharing United States Technology to Aid in the Improvement of Nutrition. Accessed April 26, 2007. S10283D6North_CarolinaScience4.03 Discuss how foods provide both energy and nutrients for living organisms.44S10283D8North_CarolinaScience4.05 Determine that foods are made up of a variety of components<br />44United StatesCopyright 2012 - Engineering K-Ph.D. Program, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke Universityhttp://www.teachengineering.org/policy_ipp.phphttp://www.teachengineering.org/2009-01-204Teacher