🍎 Mystery Meal Zoom-In

Students examine a familiar food item alongside images of water, carbon dioxide, and a cell, then sort evidence cards into atom, molecule, or living structure categories. As a class, they generate notice/wonder questions in their Atomic Structure Investigation Notebook and connect the puzzle to the driving question about carbon and molecules of life. The teacher introduces the project products, classroom exhibition plan, and the expectation that models must show accurate protons, neutrons, and electrons.