Lesson 1 - Monday, Feb 5
Focus Question: What is passed on from parents to offspring and how does this happen?
What We Did…
All of our efforts this week are being directed toward creating an answer to our Driving (Unit) Question. In preparation for this, Dr. M has asked students to do a series of mini-research project about the following items: sperm cells, egg cells, nucleus/nuclei, DNA, and fertilization. In completing these small, question-and-answer based projects, most students developed the understanding needed to then answer the Driving Question. Having done so, students were given permission to then create a Google Doc that will soon become their final essay answer to the question.
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Lesson 2 - Tuesday, Feb 6
Focus Question: What is passed on from parents to offspring and how does this happen?
What We Did…
In an attempt to help students hone-in on the key concept they need to understand in order to answer the Driving Question with mastery, Dr. M had students cut out the chromosomes visible in a human karyotype, which they will then use to create a model of the creation of a sperm and egg cell from typical human body cell.
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Lesson 3 - Wednesday, Feb 7
Focus Question: What is passed on from parents to offspring and how does this happen?
What We Did…
Working individually or with small groups of students, Dr. M tried to help students understand how sperm and egg cells are made by using pieces of A3 and A4 paper (to represent cells) and color-coded paper chromosomes. During this multi-step, cell-making process, many students came to understand the most important concept needed to answer the Driving Question: a process we called “meiosis.”
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Lesson 4 - Friday, Feb 9
Focus Question: What is passed on from parents to offspring and how does this happen?
What We Did…
Again working individually or with small groups of students, Dr. M tried to help students understand how sperm and egg cells are made by using pieces of A3 and A4 paper (to represent cells) and color-coded paper chromosomes. During this multi-step, cell-making process, many students came to understand the most important concept needed to answer the Driving Question: a process we called “meiosis.”
For those students still struggling to understand this complex process that results in the production of both sperm and egg cells, we still have Monday’s class to try and put the pieces of this ‘puzzle’ together.
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Homework: Students need to submit a completed first draft of their answer to our current unit’s Driving Question, which is, “Why are human beings different from one another?” As discussed in class this week, students will be able to revise this first draft after the TASIS Winter Adventure. Although students will still be able to continue working on their essay in class on Monday, 12 Feb, Dr. Merritt has already created an assignment in the Google Science Classroom to accept students’ essay. Students can Submit (Turn In) their essay any time before 08:00 on TUESDAY, 13 Feb.
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The DRIVING QUESTION of our current unit is: Why are the human beings different from one another?
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