Remote Teaching Ideas
Unit on Experimental Design and Characteristics of Living Things
Unit on Experimental Design and Characteristics of Living Things
Unit Summary
Unit Summary
The following series of lessons and activities will lead students to:
- Understand what a seed is and its role in the life cycle of a plant
- Identify what makes an experiment controlled and quantitative
- Interpret results about conditions needed for germination
- Design an experiment in which they identify: Independent variable, levels of independent variable, dependent variables, constants, hypothesis, and experimental design diagram
- Define and distinguish between: living vs nonliving; biotic vs. abiotic
- Recognize the characteristics that all living things share
Unit on Cells and Kingdoms
Unit on Cells and Kingdoms
Unit Summary
Unit Summary
- Identify the Kingdom an organism belongs to based on its characteristics
- Relate the differences in cell types to the differences in the organisms of different kingdoms
- Differentiate between Plant, Animal and Fungi cells.
- Explain the function of 8 cell organelles
- Identify on a drawing 8 different cell organelles
Still in development
Unit on Climate Change
Unit on Climate Change
Unit Summary
The following lessons and activities will lead students to:Unit Summary
- Appreciate the features of carbon (the element) that make it so crucial to life and prevalent on Earth
- Identify greenhouse gases.
- Understand why greenhouse gases are increasing in the Earth's atmosphere and why that's a problem.
- Personally thank a member of the plant kingdom for the many vital roles it plays for life on Earth.
- Visually represent how the Earth's atmosphere is changing as well as the changes on Earth that are causing it to change.
- Explain the carbon cycle.
- Recognize how human activity since the onset of the Industrial Revolution has offset the carbon cycle.
- Calculate the carbon footprint of their household.
- Identify activities that could decrease their household's carbon footprint.
- Interpret global data about international carbon footprints.
- Understand some of the steps being taken worldwide to reduce carbon emissions.