Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Biology 1 Unit 2 Day 1 + Poster Instructions

Do Now
Objective: Students will describe and provided examples for the 7 characteristics of life on posters using the words structure, function, energy, matter.

Questions:
1) List the 6 (or 7) characteristics of life.
2) Give an example of 1 of the characteristics of life (see APEX section 2.2.1)

Poster Instructions:
  1. Choose 1 of the characteristics of life from the do now. 
  2. In the center, draw a green bubble and write 1 sentence about your characteristic in it.
  3. Make 5 yellow bubbles around the center and connected them to the center.
    • fill these bubbles with examples, diagrams, or details.
  4. Choose 3 of your 5 bubbles, from these draw a branch and another bubble.
    • Fill these red bubbles by completing one of the following sentence stems:
      • I wonder...
      • This makes me think about...
      • This sounds like...
      • This is related to...

Exit Ticket: What characteristics do all living things share? Use the following sentence stem for your topic sentence: All living things are alike because... and write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph.