How are complex living things able to grow from a single cell into a multicellular organism?
Adaptive Perseverance
Students will develop the ability to use flexibility to overcome challenges in this course. It involves being able to focus when vocabulary and concepts become abstract, while also having the strength to bounce back.
Critical Thinking
Students will think critically throughout the unit as they revise their ideas about how multicellular organisms grow and develop, including themselves.
Responsibility
Students will learn to use lab equipment responsibly and safely so that the equipment can be used in the future.
What role does mitosis play in the replication of cells in the body of living things?
What role does meiosis play in the creation of unique gametes that result in unique life?
What role does fertilization play in the creation of new life?
Students should be able to create and identify models that demonstrate mitosis, meiosis, and fertilization.
Students should be able to identify the steps of mitosis on a prepared onion root tip microscope slide.
Scientific Modeling - Students use scientific modeling to collaborate on a hypothesis regarding the essential question. Students use scientific models to make meaning of phenomena.
Written and Oral Discourse - Students will communicate ideas and arguments through writing and through speech. Students will be developing their vocabulary use through explanations that accompany the model of how an organism is able to grow and develop.
Note taking - Students write key ideas in their lab notebooks so that they may use the resource on labs and other assessments.
Use of Microscopes - Students will learn proper microscope techniques in order to identify cells in different phases of mitosis and interphase.
Differentiation:
Explicit instruction of expectations for answering questions in complete sentences (TTQA) on formative and summative assessments.
Explicit instruction on lab notebook setup and maintenance throughout the course.
Explicit instruction on reading articles, lab activity instructions, and textbook passages (Bold Words, Headings, Interpreting Diagrams and Charts).
Explicit instruction on how to create coherent scientific models. Instruction includes how to analyze models in order to make sense of their information. Students will be able to use models as evidence to defend claims.
Reteach and recall material during the start of the lesson prior about previous concepts in order to develop memory skills and create future study material for exams.
Review activity and instruction on how to study for closed book exams. Students draw connections between concepts through a visual web of ideas.
HS-LS1-4. Use a model to illustrate the role of cellular division (mitosis) and differentiation in producing and maintaining complex organisms.
Textbook - Miller & Levine Biology
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POGIL - Process-oriented guided inquiry learning
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