Science & Nature Magazine
Teachers:
Oscar Sánchez - osanchez@nogales.edu.co
Carolina Huertas - chuertas@nogales.edu.co
María Mercedes Murillo - mmurillo@nogales.edu.co
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Goal & Milestones
Goal & Milestones
Goal: Students will understand how to design and implements effective strategies to communicate scientific and historical knowledge about the periodic table and the societies connected to its history, making the content relevant, engaging, and accessible for teenage audiences.
Goal: Students will understand how to design and implements effective strategies to communicate scientific and historical knowledge about the periodic table and the societies connected to its history, making the content relevant, engaging, and accessible for teenage audiences.
Driving Question: How can we, as magazine editors, create a fun and interesting magazine that shows different types of writing while making sure the science information is correct and easy to understand?
Driving Question: How can we, as magazine editors, create a fun and interesting magazine that shows different types of writing while making sure the science information is correct and easy to understand?
Milestones
Reading: The Mystery of the Periodic Table
Milestones
Reading: The Mystery of the Periodic Table
Provocation / Challenge
Provocation / Challenge
The students will carry out several laboratory experiments to explore elements, compounds, and chemical reactions, and then decide on the topic they want to publish about. They will look at different types of magazines and explore the purposes of publications.
Research and Content/ Article
Research and Content/ Article
They will select a research question that invites exploration of the impacts of chemistry on people’s lives, go to the sources, create an outline, and consolidate an article.
Research and Content/ Poem
Research and Content/ Poem
Each student will be assigned an element from the periodic table and will study poems in order to write about their element using research and poem structure.
Civilizations/ Timeline
Civilizations/ Timeline
Through the book and the study of access to knowledge in ancient civilizations, they will organize the events on a timeline and design a proper layout to include it in the publication.
Creative Writing
Creative Writing
In the study of civilizations and through reading the book, the students will encounter several scientists and use their experiences to write creatively from their perspective.
Editing, Revising
Editing, Revising
Receiving feedback from different people at the school and support from the Arts department, the students will carry out the full revision, editing, and layout of their magazines.
Final Product
Final Product
They will work in groups to organize all the material and make collective decisions about the publication in order to answer the question posed at the beginning.
Skills and Content
Skills and Content
FINES
FINES
Questions to discuss
Questions to discuss
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