Lesson: Activity 74: Observing Organisms
Teacher: |
Kaylan Duthie |
Unit Theme/Course: |
Sepup Ecology |
Date: |
Feb 15th & 16th |
Timing: |
2 class periods |
Challenge
Question:
What can you discover about an organism in a laboratory investigation?
Overview:
Students will begin to learn about ecology and the study of relationships between living things and the physical environment. They will study blackworm in a laboratory observation/investigation, and make observations and inferences about their behaviors and causes of those behaviors. Students will also learn about the differences between an observation and an inference.
Learning
Objectives [cognitive,
academic, language, socio-cultural] |
Assessment
Criteria |
Students use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data |
Students develop appropriate guidelines for handling live animals. Students use a petri dish, pipet, and paint brush to gather observational data |
Behavior is one kind of response an organism can make to an internal or environmental stimulus |
Students gather data about how the blackworm responds to being touched and placed on a different surface. |
Scientists formulate and test their explanations of nature using observation |
After making observations, students infer what type of environment they think a blackworm would live in |
Standard/EALR:
6-8 INQA Question |
Scientific inquiry involves asking and answering questions
and comparing the answer with what scientists already know about the
world. |
Generate a question that can be answered through scientific investigation.
This may involve refining or refocusing a broad and ill-defined question.
|
6-8 INQB Investigate |
Different kinds of questions suggest different kinds
of scientific investigations. |
Plan and conduct a scientific investigation (e.g., field
study, systematic observation, controlled experiment, model,
or simulation) that is appropriate for the question being asked. |
6-8 INQC Investigate |
Collecting, analyzing, and displaying data are essential
aspects of all investigations. |
Communicate results using pictures, tables, charts, diagrams, graphic
displays, and text that are clear, accurate, and informative. *a |
6-8 INQF Explain |
It is important to distinguish between the results of a
particular investigation and general conclusions drawn from these
results. |
Generate a scientific conclusion from an investigation using
inferential logic, and clearly distinguish between results (e.g., evidence)
and conclusions (e.g., explanation). Describe the differences between an objective summary of the
findings and an inference made from the findings.* |
observing_organisms.pdf | |
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observing_organisms_flipchart.pdf | |
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observing_organisms_flipchart_day_2.pdf | |
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