Lesson 1 - Mon, Feb 26 (E & G) & Tues, Feb 27 (B)
Focus Question: What happened in the student’s foot so they could walk again?
What We Did…
To begin our new unit (Unit 6.3), students were asked to consider the case of a middle school boy who injured himself by dropping a weight on his left foot during a PE activity. In this introductory lesson, students were asked to 1) make a new entry in their science notebook with the title, “6.3 – Opening Day,” and 2) view an “Emergency Room Report” filled out by the attending doctor at the hospital (because of a school basketball game, G period students did not view this report but will do so in their next lesson).
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Lesson 2 - Tues, Feb 27 (E) & Wed, Feb 28 (B & G)
Focus Question: What happened in the student’s foot so they could walk again?
What We Did…
After finishing looking at the injured boy’s “Emergency Room Report” on which students recorded both their noticings and wonderings, students were then asked to turn their attention to two additional reports: the “Post-Operation Report” (which was created on the same day as the injury) and the “Recovery Report #1” (which was created 3 weeks after the injury). After recording both their noticings and wonderings on these reports, students were then asked to write their own definition of healing. In the final moments of the lesson, students were asked to put all of their healing definitions together to create a single, class definition. These class definitions were then posted on the Grade 6 model cabinets for all to see.
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Lesson 3 - Thurs, Feb 29 (All periods)
Focus Question: What happened in the student’s foot so they could walk again?
What We Did…
After quickly looking at the class definitions of healing produced in the last lesson (and which are now posted on the Grade 6 cabinets) and seeing the official Unit 6.3 – Driving Question for the first time, we re-examined all three of this weeks handouts and tried to identify any writing done by the doctors that could be considered evidence of healing in the patient. During this process, we had to trying drawing some useful distinctions between evidence of healing and evidence of injury, which wasn’t always easy to do.
What We Figured Out…
We think the following list could be good clues (or evidence) that healing is occurring…
- Less swelling
- More ‘wiggling’ of toes
- Regaining feeling/sensation
- Less pain
- Greater range of motion in ankle and toes
- Lined up bones
- Smaller distance between the bones (i.e., a smaller ‘gap’) at the fracture sites
- Clean and dry pin sites
- Removing stitches and replacing them with steri-strips
- Taking a cast off/away
- Taking crutches away
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Lesson 4 - Friday, March 1 (No school)
Focus Question: —
What We Did…
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Announcements...
The DRIVING QUESTION of our current unit is: How do living things heal?
#1 - Grade 6 parents can sign up for a Parent-Teacher conference through Veracross. The Spring Semester conferences are scheduled for Monday, 4 March.
#2 - ...