Lesson 1 - Monday, Jan 8
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What We Did…
By quickly visiting the SCIENCEsEDiment Academic Calendar we saw there are only two weeks of classes left before the final Fall Semester grades are issued. It was then emphasized that this means students have only two weeks to affect/alter/redo the proficiency mark they’ve earned for their 1) States of Matter drawings, 2) Identification of Variables skills, and 3) Writing Research Questions skill. Students can see their current marks for these skills in their Veracross Open Gradebook (4 = A, 3 = B, 2 = C, 1 = D, 0 = F) and use their marks to decide if they want to address them prior to the end of the semester on 19 January.
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Lesson 2 - Tuesday, Jan 9
Focus Question: How do extra-big muscles compare to typical ones up close?
What We Did…
To return to where we left off in our unit before the winter vacation we decided to turn our attention to the following questions: 1) What do we know about muscles?, 2) What do we know about muscle cells?, and 3) What do we know about proteins? We wrote our collective answers to these questions in a notebook entry titled, “Progress Tracker.”
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Lesson 3 - Wednesday, Jan 10
Focus Question: How do extra-big muscles compare to typical ones up close?
What We Did…
We started the lesson by updating the Table of Contents of our science notebook, and then checking both the completeness and quality of two of our most recent entries: The Word Wall and Progress Tracker entries. Dr. M displayed his Word Wall and Progress Tracker entries on the whiteboard so that students could check their entries and make sure they are both up-to-date. In C period, students then asked Dr. M to add 4-5 new questions to the Driving Question Board. Most of these questions were related to the topics of muscles, muscle cells, proteins, eggs, and plants.
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Lesson 4 - Friday, Jan 12
Focus Question: How do extra-big muscles compare to typical ones up close?
What We Did…
To see where (in a wheat plant) protein can be found, we watched a short video of someone showing how to make flour from a wheat plant growing in the ground. We also watched a short video animation showing a detailed view of the actin and myosin proteins making a human muscle contract and relax. From these video resources, we made additional contributions–both in words and drawings–to our Progress Tracker document. In C period, we then added two additional statements about muscle cells to our Progress Tracker.
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Announcements...
The DRIVING QUESTION of our current unit is: Why are human beings different from one another?
#1 - Including this week, there are 2 weeks of school before the end of the Fall Semester.
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