Lesson 1 - Monday, Feb 19
Focus Question: What is this thing called “puberty”?
What We Did…
We used an A3-sized piece of paper to create a scaled drawing called the “My Lifeline,” which will be a sort of timeline recording some of students’ past, present, and future life events. Today, we entered events such as birth, death, retirement, marriage(?), kids(?), gap years, and schooling.
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Lesson 2 - Tuesday, Feb 20
Focus Question: What is this thing called “puberty”?
What We Did…
Using a highlighter, we marked the years on our lifeline from age 9-16 as “puberty.” Students then took notes related to the typical signs of puberty expected for both males and females.
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Lesson 3 - Wednesday, Feb 21
Focus Question: What happened to me in the first 9-10 months of my life (before my birth)?
What We Did…
We began watching a famous NOVA science video, “Life’s Greatest Miracle,” to gain a better understand of how each of us was formed by the union (joining) of a single sperm cell with a single egg cell. During the video, we spend a good portion of time discussing how the video presented an excellent summary and illustration of meiosis. We then discussed how this particular part of the video might help us make important revisions of–and/or improvements to–the ideas we tried to explain in the first draft of our Driving Question essays.
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Lesson 4 - Friday, Feb 23
Focus Question: What happened to me in the first 9-10 months of my life (before my birth)?
What We Did…
We continued watching a famous NOVA science video, “Life’s Greatest Miracle.” At the end of the lesson, it was decided that students could begin revising their essay and creating Draft #2. It was also announced that today would be the last class day of the current unit, and that on Monday we will officially begin Unit 7.3 and pursue a new Driving Question.
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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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