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Inspirational Quote of the Day: “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 

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:

MS-PS1-1:

Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.

MS-PS1-2:

Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.

MS-LS1-3:

Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.

MS-LS1-7:

Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.

MS-LS1-5:

Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms

Warm-Up: 

Vocab Escape Room Race Starting Line

Take 5 Warm-up

To Do List:

DQB

SLIDE SHOW

1. 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. 

2. Look at Structures of the Digestive System- 10 min

3. 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

4. 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:

Norm Focused Reflection 

Sponge Time

Homework:

None