Final -- Period 2

Instructions:

1. Pick up a handout from the front table. 
2. Complete the handout to the best of your ability with thoughtful reflection.
3. When finished, turn it into the exit ticket basket.

Final Instructions 

Part 1: The post-test. (The teacher's final). 
Part 2: You will have 2 options for your final exam. One will be creating a test with the information you have learned in this class. The second option will be a concept map of all the concepts you've learned in this class. See below for a list of requirements for your Final.

• The"test" will be multiple choice with a, b, c, and d answer choices. 
• It should have at least 18 questions:

1. 5-7 how questions
2. 5-7 what questions
3. 5-7 why or when questions

• The concept map should have:

1. At least 20 concepts, terms, or ideas we've learned from this class.
2. Explanation of how the terms are connected to each other. Concepts should be connected in a thoughtful/creative manner.
3. At least 5 diagrams, graphs, or pictures. 

Finals Day -- Periods 1 and 3

Instructions:

1. Pick up a handout from the front table. 
2. Complete the handout to the best of your ability with thoughtful reflection.
3. When finished, turn it into the exit ticket basket.

Final Instructions: You will be creating a test with the information you have learned in this unit. See below for a list of requirements for your test.

• Your "test" will be multiple choice with a, b, c, and d answer choices. 
• It should have at least 15 questions:

1. 4-6 how questions
2. 4-6 what questions
3. 4-6 why or when questions

Biology Week 2 Day 4 Part 2

Questions:

1. What do you find most difficult about this case study?
2. What has helped your learning about survival homeostasis most?
3. What 2 things have been 😊 for you in this class and 1 wish.

MINILesson: End of class info

Activity: Case Study Poster and Week 2 Finish 

Biology Week 2 Day 4 Part 1

Objective: Learn about ways the body maintains homeostasis in the face of changing conditions by processing information and data (analyzing, interpreting, drawing conclusions based on scientific reasoning).

Questions:

1. What was the purpose of our labs yesterday?
2. Was your data reliable?--what makes you think so?
3. What other feedback loops are involved in maintaining homeostasis in a survival situation?

MINILesson: Feedback Loops in Survival.

Activity: Case Study Poster

Human An and Phys Unit 3 Day 8

Objective: Learn about mechanisms of respiratory system function by creating a model and analyzing/interpreting the model.

Questions:

1. What new learning did you gain from constructing a model lung yesterday?
2. What would you add to the model lung we created to make it more accurate/realistic?
3. What has helped your learning about the respiratory system most?

MINILesson: Boyles Law

Activity: Boyles Law Model and Analysis

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 8

Objective: Learn about the history of earth by observing fossils, analyzing the fossils and drawing conclusions about fossils' connection to the Earth.

Questions:

1. What stood out to you most about the fossils from yesterday?
2. What was most interesting about studying the fossils?
3. What do you think is the difference between a trace fossil and a true fossil?

MINILesson: Noticings and Conclusions from Fossil Study

Activity: Fossil Study Day 2

Instructions:

1. 10 total fossils
2. 30 total boxes of information.
3. Use the computers and blue info packets to research boxes 1-3. 

Biology Week 2 Day 3 Part 2

Questions:

1. What was the most challenging part of the lab during part 1? Explain why you think this is so.
2. What has been our main focus for this class?--explain it in 2 different ways.

MINILesson: Homeostasis of Organ Systems in Survival Situations

Activity: Whole Body Homeostasis Lab

Human An and Phys Unit 3 Day 7

Objective: Learn about mechanisms of respiratory system function by creating a model and analyzing/interpreting the model.

Questions:

1. What role does the pleural cavity have in respiratory system function?
2. Write one question you still have about the respiratory system.
3. Based on our learning objective above, what big idea will we be focusing on in class today?

MINILesson: Model Lung Lab

Activity: Model Lung Lab

Biology Week 2 Day 3 Part 1

Objective: Learn about ways the body maintains homeostasis in the face of changing conditions by processing information and data.

Questions:

1. What was the purpose of our gallery walk protocol yesterday?
2. What did you notice about your classmates responses?
3. After reading your classmates responses yesterday, what would you add to your own to make it stronger or clearer?

MINILesson: Relative Humidity Lab

Activity: Relative Humidity Lab

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 7

Objective: Learn about the history of earth by observing fossils, analyzing the fossils and drawing conclusions about fossils' connection to the Earth.

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained about the history of Earth based on fossils?
2. What can fossils tell us about the Earth over time?
3. How has the Earth changed over time? Explain 1 example.

MINILesson: Fossil Observation Lab Info

Activity: Fossil Observation Lab

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 6

Objective: Learn about the history of Earth using evidence by analyzing and interpreting fossil record data.

Questions:

1. What surprised you most about the land in the geologic maps from yesterday?
2. What can geologic maps (like the one from yesterday) tell us about the history of Earth?
3. Write one question you still have about the history of Earth.

MINILesson: Fossils as Evidence

Activity: Fossil Data Analysis

Biology Week 2 Day 2 Part 1

Objective: Learn about ways the body maintains homeostasis in the face of changing conditions.

Questions:

1. In what ways did you made progress toward our learning objective yesterday?
2. What do you think is the most difficult part about explaining mechanisms of water balance?
3. How would you explain mechanisms of maintaining water balance to a classmate?

MINILesson: What does it technically mean to be dehydrated?

Activity: CER Extended Response + Gallery Walk

Biology Week 2 Day 2 Part 2

Questions:

1. What does the body do in response to dehydration, low blood volume?
2. How does dehydration affect organs in the body?
3. Write one question you still have about water balance in the human body.

MINILesson: Technical Language in Dehydration

Activity: Extended response, Gallery Walk, Relative Humidity and Survival Lab 

Exit Ticket: 

1. What do you think of the gallery walk protocol as a way to respond to others' thoughts?
2. What did you find most difficult about the gallery walk protocol?
3. Is the gallery walk protocol a helpful way to make your own response stronger/clearer? Yes/No + because

Human An and Phys Unit 3 Day 6

Objective: Learn about factors that affect function of the respiratory system by analyzing text.

Questions:

1. What did your article (from yesterday) say about respiratory system function?
2. What new learning have you gained about mechanisms of respiratory system function?
3. When a lung gets punctured, what do you think that means?

MINILesson: Mechanisms of Respiratory System Function

Activity: Factors that affect the Respiratory System Article and Annotations

Instructions

1. Highlight and define (in the margins) 5 key terms. These may or may not be science terms, but are important in order to understand the article.
2. Highlight 5 sentences that stand out to you in the article and respond to them in the margins using the following sentence starter--In other words,...
3. Highlight 5 sentences or sections that answer our focus question--What does this article say about respiratory system function? Respond to your highlights in the margins using the following sentence starter--This section/sentence shows...
4. Highlight 3 sentence that stand out to you and respond to them in the margins using the sentence starter I agree/disagree with this because...
5. Draw a circle around a section of the article where you feel a chart, graph or diagram is needed; respond to this in the margins by telling what you would add to help readers better understand the article. 

Biology Week 2 Day 1 Part 2

Objective: Learn about ways the body maintains homeostasis in the face of changing conditions.

Questions:

1. What new learning did you gain from your videos about homeostasis?
2. What new or unfamiliar words did you hear while watching your videos?
3. What do you think it technically means to be "dehydrated"?

MINILesson: Feedback Loop in Water Balance

Activity: Dehydrated Article, Annotation, and CER

Annotation Instructions

1. Highlight and define (in the margins) 5 key terms. These may or may not be science terms, but are important in order to understand the article.
2. Highlight 5 sentences that stand out to you in the article and respond to them in the margins using the following sentence starter--This is important because... or This shows...

Biology Week 2 Day 1 Part 1

Objective: Learn about ways the body maintains homeostasis in the face of changing conditions.

Questions:

1. What new learning have you gained about water balance and homeostasis?
2. What advice would you give someone who was lost in the desert and had little water?
3. What are symptoms of dehydration?

MINILesson: Mechanisms of Homeostasis Regulating Water Balance

Activity: Homeostasis and Water Balance Videos

Links

Ameboa Sisters -- Osmosis

What if you Stopped Drinking Water?

How do your Kidneys work?

How your kidneys control water.

Crash Course in Urinary System

Osmoregulation

Can you drink too much water?

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 5

Objective: Learn about history of earth by reading and interpreting a geologic map.

Questions: 

1. What can fossils tell us about the history of Earth?
2. What can rocks tell us about the history of Earth?
3. What has been the most interesting part of learning about the history of Earth? Explain your thinking using a because statement.

MINILesson: Geologic History of Earth

Activity: Geologic Map Interpretation

Human An and Phys Unit 3 Day 5

Objective: Learn about factors that affect function of the respiratory system by analyzing text.

Questions:

1. How are oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged in the human body?
2. What factors do you think affect the respiratory system most?
3. Write one question you have about the respiratory sytsem.

MINILesson: Mechanisms of Respiratory System Function

Activity: Factors that Affect Respiratory System Article

Instructions

1. Highlight and define (in the margins) 5 key terms. These may or may not be science terms, but are important in order to understand the article.
2. Highlight 5 sentences that stand out to you in the article and respond to them in the margins using the following sentence starter--In other words,...
3. Highlight 5 sentences or sections that answer our focus question--What does this article say about respiratory system function? Respond to your highlights in the margins using the following sentence starter--This section/sentence shows...

Biology Week 1 Day 4 Part 2

Questions:

1. What was/is the most difficult part of analyzing the case study? Why do you think so?
2. What do you need more of/less of in order to learn better in this class?
3. What new learning have you gained about thermoregulation?

MINILesson: Thermoregulation--What goes wrong?

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Activity: Week 1 Finish

Biology Week 1 Day 4 Part 1

Objective: Learn about mechanisms of maintaining homeostasis and factors that affect homeostasis by collecting data and analyzing data in writing. 

Questions:

1. What was our lab about yesterday? (summarize)
2. What did this lab have to do with homeostasis?
3. Was your data reliable? How do you know?

MINILesson: Maintaining Homeostasis -- Thermoregulation

Activity: Case Study Poster

Human Anatomy and Phys Unit 3 Day 4

Objective: Learn about the mechanisms of respiratory system function by gathering data and analyzing and interpreting data.

Questions:

1. What did we do in lab yesterday? (summarize) 
2. What did you notice about your lab yesterday?
3. What new learning have you gained about the respiratory system?

MINILesson: Mechanisms of breathing

Activity: Production of carbon dioxide lab conclusions

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 4

Objective: Learn about the history of Earth (based on evidence) by analyzing and interpreting an article about fossils.

Questions:

1. What was the article you starting reading yesterday about?
2. What does your article say about the history of Earth?
3. What will be the most difficult part of our learning objective for today (above) for you? Explain your thoughts using a because statement.

MINILesson: Causes of Land Mass Changes -- Ice and Water

Activity: Fossil Article Day 2 

Instructions

1. Highlight and define (in the margins) 5 key terms. These may or may not be science terms, but are important in order to understand the article.
2. Highlight 5 sentences in the article and respond to them  in the margins using the following sentence starter--In other words,...
3. Highlight 3 sentences or sections that answer our focus question--What do fossils tell us about the history of Earth. Respond to your highlights in the margins using the following sentence starter--This section/sentence shows...

Human An and Phys Unit 3 Day 3

Objective: Learn about the mechanisms of respiratory system function by gathering data and analyzing and interpreting data.

Questions:

1. What role does the diaphragm play in respiration?
2. What is the main function of the respiratory system?
3. Translate our learning objective using the following sentence starter--It says... I think...

MINILesson: Mechanisms of Respiratory System Function

Activity: Respiratory System Function Lab

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 3

Objective: Learn about the history of Earth (based on evidence) by analyzing and interpreting an article about fossils.

Questions:

1. What is the biggest change you've noticed about the land masses?
2. Why do you think it's important to know about how the land masses have changed over time?
3. How do you think the changes to the land masses affected the plants and animals at the time?

MINILesson: Causes of Land Mass Changes

Activity: Fossil Article Analysis -- What can fossils tell us about the history of Earth?

Instructions

1. Highlight and define (in the margins) 5 key terms. These may or may not be science terms, but are important in order to understand the article.
2. Highlight 5 sentences in the article and respond to them  in the margins using the following sentence starter--In other words,...
3. Highlight 3 sentences or sections that answer our focus question. Respond to them in the margins using the following sentence starter--This section/sentence shows...

Biology Week 1 Day 3 Part 2

Objective: Learn about mechanisms of maintaining homeostasis and factors that affect homeostasis by collecting data and analyzing data in writing. 

Questions:

1. What does your data from the electrolyte lab tell us about salt/water in the body?
2. What new learning have you gained about homeostasis?
3. How did our lab relate or connect to our objective (above)?

MINILesson: Thermoregulation Lab

Activity: Thermoregulation Lab -- Is Sweating Beneficial?

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Biology Week 1 Day 3 Part 1

Objective: Learn about mechanisms of maintaining homeostasis and factors that affect homeostasis by collecting data and analyzing data in writing. 

Questions:

1. What did we do in our lab yesterday? (what was the purpose)
2. When or why do you think you body loses salt?
3. Why is salt important to maintaining homeostasis?

MINILesson: Salt and Your Homeostasis

Activity: Lab Data and Conclusions

Biology Week 1 Day 2 Part 2

Objective: Learn about homeostasis and feedback loops by gathering and analyzing data about electrolyte/water balance.

Questions:

1. What do electrolytes have to do with homeostasis?
2. What new learning did you gain from the simulation about electrolytes?
3. Write one question you still have about electrolytes.

MINILesson: Electrolytes Lab

Activity: Electrolytes Lab -- Front Due Today!

Biology Week 1 Day 2 Part 1

Objective: Learn about homeostasis and feedback loops by gathering and analyzing data about electrolyte/water balance.

Questions:

1. What new knowledge did you gain from yesterday about feedback loops?
2. What new knowledge did you gain from yesterday about homeostasis?
3. Looking at the science language for today, what term do you know the most about? Explain your thoughts.

MINILesson: Electrolytes--why are they important to survival?

Activity: Electrolytes Simulation

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 2

Objective: Learn about changes to the land over the history of Earth by diagramming and analyzing patterns.

Questions:

1. What do you notice about the land masses in the diagrams you colored yesterday?
2. What do you think about the movement of the land masses in the diagrams from yesterday? (causes? effects?)
3. Looking at the science language for today, what terms do you know the most about? Least? 

MINILesson: Changes to the Land 

Activity: Pangea Patterns and Analysis 

• Instructions

1. Color the land masses in 3 pages.
2. On each page, describe 2 patterns you notice about the changes to the land masses. Use the following words to help describe your patterns: similar, different, in general, biggest, smallest, most, least.

Human An and Phys Unit 3 Day 2

Objective: Learn about structures and functions of the respiratory system by labeling, color coding and analyzing diagrams. 

Questions: 

1. What did your diagrams yesterday say about the structures of the respiratory system?
2. What do you think is the most important function of the respiratory system?
3. Looking at the science language board, which of the terms do you know the most about? Least?

MINILesson: Mechanisms of Respiratory System Function

Activity: Respiratory System Function 

Biology Week 1 Day 1 Part 2

Objective: Learn about feedback loops and their role in maintaining homeostasis by analyzing and making connections to information in videos.

Questions:

1. What have you done so far to make progress towards our objective (above)?
2. Write one question you still have about homeostasis or feedback loops?
3. What did you learn from your videos about homeostasis/feedback loops?

MINILesson: Homeostasis by Feedback Loops

Activity: Feedback Loops Chart

Biology Week 1 Day 1 Part 1

Objective: Learn about feedback loops and their role in maintaining homeostasis by analyzing and making connections to information in videos.

Questions:

1. What would you do if you were lost in the desert?
2. What would be the most important thing to have if you were lost in the desert? Explain your thinking by writing a because statement.

MINILesson: Pre Test

Activity: Homeostasis/Feedback Loops Videos

Links

Homeostasis and Negative Feedback

What is Homeostasis?

Introduction to Homeostasis

Temperature Regulation in Humans

What would happen if you didn't drink water?

Feedback Loops--How Nature Gets its Rhythm

Feedback Loops in Humans

Homeostasis in Humans 3D

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 1

Objective: Learn about changes to the land over the history of Earth by diagramming and analyzing patterns. 

Questions:

1. What changes to the land have occurred over the history of Earth?
2. How do you think changes to the land affected plants and animals?
3. Translate our learning objective for today (above) using the sentence stater So the objective is saying....

MINILesson: Pangea

Activity: Pangea Diagraming

Human An and Phys Unit 3 Day 1

Objective: Learn about structures and functions of the respiratory system by labeling, color coding and analyzing diagrams. 

Questions:

1. What do you know about structures of the respiratory system?
2. What do you know about the function of the respiratory system?
3. Which of our science language terms for today to you know the most about? Explain what you know.

MINILesson: Respiratory System Structures

Activity: Respiratory System Diagrams

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