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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Inspirational Quote of the Day: “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”– Malcolm Gladwell
Objective: Can we see anything inside M'Kenna that looks different?
We examine M’Kenna’s endoscopy report and look at some graphs that show what happens to food as it travels through M’Kenna’s digestive system in comparison to a healthy one. We figure out that some of the food that M’Kenna eats is not leaving her small intestine. We add our new ideas to our initial models and our Driving Question Board. We decide we want to know more about what is going on in M’Kenna’s small intestine and what could be happening to the food that seems to be going away.
Standards:
Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.
Warm-Up:
To Do List:
6. Develop Consensus Model in Scientists Circle- 20 min
Students gather together in a Scientist Circle to share similarities and differences in their models and develop an initial consensus model
7. Progress Tracker- 7 min
Introduce the Progress Tracker
8. Share Related Phenomena- 8 min
Have students consider when they or someone they know experienced concurrent symptoms similar to M'Kenna's
9. Develop Initial Questions- 10 min
Write down different questions students have about M'Kenna's case and related experiences.
10. Driving Question Board 20 min
Develop a Driving Question Board to create a shared space for student questions.
11. Ideas for Investigations- 15 min
Have students generate ideas for investigations that the class could do to figure out what is going on inside of our bodies.
12. Updated the Table of Contents- 8 min- Our Progress Tracker
Navigation - 5min
Students review some of the artifacts that the class created and notice that we seem to zero in on the digestive system as a key player for what might be going on with M’Kenna. The class decides that they need to know a little more about the digestive system.
Look at Structures of the Digestive System- 10 min
Analyze Endoscopy images using the Computer Interactive- 15 min
Students engage with the interactive to compare organs in a healthy person's digestive system and M'Kenna's digestive system
LINK TO EXPLORE LINK TO DOCUMENT
Building Understandings Discussion- 15 min
Build some agreement that there seems to be something wrong with M’Kenna’s small intestine. Motivate the next investigation, which is to follow the food through the small intestine.
Check for Understanding:
Homework:
None - End of the marking period is coming. Please check HAC, make up missing assignments, and finish the marking period strong.
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