Do Now: Please check on your plant and make observations. Make sure they are damp, but not swamped with water.
Learning Goals: Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.* StudentSS Lesson: How Do You Value Biodiversity? Link for the handout. Why are elephants important? Elephants eat a lot of plants and a lot of fruit.
Students get into groups for this part of the lesson Part 2 “Elephant Conservation Efforts” allows students to research actual elephant conservation organizations in order to gauge each organization’s effectiveness. It is important to have each student in a group research one of the organizations and report to their group. Then the group must decide which, based on evidence, has proven more effective than others. This is a video about women who work to preserve Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. Goal: Students should be able to evaluate different solutions to human impact problems in how they affect elephants.
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Do Now: Check your plants, make observations and add them to your Plant Investigation Journal in google Classroom.
Learning Goal: Analyze micrographs of root tip cells to make the connection between the need for fast growing plant tissues like roots to divide the root cells through mitosis more often than leaf cells in a full sized leaf. Mitosis is the process of cells making identical daughter cells for the purpose of growth, repair and regeneration. Lesson: Students work on the Plant Growth Mitosis Lab handout to analyze plant root micrographs. Ticket out: Check in with teacher and hand in your work. Do Now: Please check your seeds!
Learning Goal: How do cells grow and divide to make new cells for growth, replacement and repair in plants or other organisms? Watch a real cell doing mitosis in this video Lesson: Mitosis Plant Growth lab paper handout Work in groups. Make an entry on plant journal. Mitosis preview and engineering challenge Mitosis lesson Do Now:
Learning Goal: Plan and carry out an investigation on what plants need to learn about photosynthesis and mitosis. Design experiments to test what plants need to grow best.
Continue working on the CSI - Wildlife activity.
Learning Goal: Learn how scientists use DNA to match tusks with dead elephants to figure out who is poaching ivory. DNA gel to compare banding patterns PCR to make DNA Do Now: Read this page about Lake Michigan and pull out three words that stand out to you. Be ready to share at your table.
Learning Goal: How can we take what we have learned and extend it to our own Great Lakes ecosystems? These bullet points show the type of information you should include in your research project.
Do Now: Brainstorm on a piece of paper jobs related to what we are studying in our class.
Learning Goal: Analyze data mathematically to infer and argue how human activity has affected the change in he genetic trait of tusklessness in African elephants Reflection on that data table we used yesterday: PARTS, PURPOSES and ADVICE. Please take some time and write down your own thinking on the handout provided on Google Classroom
Do Now: Browse the UC Berkley website about Data Science. Could this be a career for you?
As a class, watch this video about data science and data analysis. What questions do you have? Recall the video we watched on Friday of the herd of elephants where most had no tusks. Learning Goal: Analyze data mathematically to infer and argue how human activity has affected the change in he genetic trait of tusklessness in African elephants Handout: Tusklessness: Problem or Solution? You are looking at a table of data from elephants killed in Africa. Take a minute to really look at the table. What are the headings for the columns and the rows? What data does it contain? Being able to read a table like this is an important skill so you can analyze data for yourself and not have to rely on someone else to tell you what it means. Trust your own brain!! Ticket Out: How much would they have to pay you to become a data scientist? |
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