Where does the mass come from that causes a seed to grow into a tree?
Communication
Students will communicate complex ideas through scientific modeling, written, and oral discourse using appropriate scientific vocabulary.
Critical Thinking
Students will think critically throughout the unit as they revise their ideas about where matter and energy comes from on our planet by using the Laws of Conservation and principles of photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
Responsibility
Students will learn to use lab equipment responsibly and safely so that the equipment can be used in the future.
What role does photosynthesis play in the creation of usable energy from the sun in the form of glucose?
What role does cellular respiration play in all living things in order to break down glucose to create ATP?
What type of cellular respiration occurs under aerobic and anaerobic conditions?
Students should be able to create a model that demonstrates how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy.
Students should be able to make connections between photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
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
Note taking - Students write key ideas in their lab notebooks so that they may use the resource on labs and other assessments.
Observation Skills & Data Tracking - Students will track the growth and development of a plant of their own choosing as a means of comparison between different species of plant.
Graphing - Students will collect and graph data as a visual view of the results of experimentation.
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 an experiment that changes only one variable at a time. Instruction includes how to analyze collected data.
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-LS1-5. Use a model to illustrate how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy.
HS-LS1-6. Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon based molecules.
HS-LS1-7. Use a model to illustrate that cellular respiration is a chemical process whereby the bonds of food molecules and oxygen molecules are broken and the bonds of new compounds are formed resulting in a net transfer of energy.
Textbook - Miller & Levine Biology
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POGIL - Process-oriented guided inquiry learning
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