Lesson 1 - Monday, Mar 4 (No school)
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What We Did…
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Lesson 2 - Tues, Mar 5 (B & E) & Wed, Mar 6 (G)
Focus Question: What happened in the student’s foot so they could walk again?
What We Did…
We used the “Healing Initial Model” handout to develop our initial (individual) models to explain what happens during the healing process so that the injured student is able to use his foot again to walk, run, jump, dance, etc. To help students focus their model-related writing and drawings, Dr. M did a quick class brainstorm on the whiteboard in which each class was asked to identify all of the parts of the foot impacted by the original injury.
Homework: Any students unable to complete their “Healing Initial Model” sheet were asked to take it home, finishing filling it out, and bring it to the next science lesson.
Lesson 3 - Wed, Mar 6 (B) & Thurs, Mar 7 (E & G)
Focus Question: What happened in the student’s foot so they could walk again?
What We Did…
To guide our investigation of the middle school boy’s foot injury (but also his healing!), we created a timeline of events on a blank sheet of A3 paper. Since we know the the boy had recovered from his injury after approximately 4 months, we divided the width of our timeline into quarters (approximate one quarter of the width of the A3 paper to represent each month). We then located a place on our timelines to record healing events found within “Recovery Report #1.” The events we recorded were as follows…
- Less swelling
- Stitches removed (and replaced by steri-strips)
- Fracture (gap) is smaller
- Bones are lined up
- Feeling no pain
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Lesson 4 - Thurs, Mar 7 (B) & Fri, Mar 8 (E & G)
Focus Question: What happened in the student’s foot so they could walk again?
What We Did…
We continued our injury timeline work by adding healing events to it found on the three remaining Recovery Reports (#1, #2, & #3). Although Dr. M helped students map the events found on Recovery Report #2, he asked students to map Report #3 & #4 on their own. The healing events we found in Recovery Report #2 are listed below:
- Minimal swelling
- More motion in left ankle and toes = movement
- Some tingling, but not full feeling = sensation
- Bones are aligned
- Distance beteween bones (‘gap’) is even smaller
- Removed cast from leg/foot
- Removed pins from bones/foot
- Gave him a ‘post-op’ shoe = less protection than a cast, but more than a regular shoe
- Skin is (still) closed and even more healed = no more steri-strips?
- Not in any pain
Please know that Dr. M put copies of all four Recover Reports in a new section of the Google Science Classroom (Classwork > 6.3 Handouts > Recovery Reports 1-4).
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Announcements...
The DRIVING QUESTION of our current unit is: How do living things heal?
#1 - B period science grades were updated in Veracross by lunch time on Friday, 8 March.
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