Final work on our Plastics paper!! Check on your work following this schedule:
2. Check your grades and see if there is anything that seems not right. What questions do you have? CELEBRATION! You deserve a BRAVO! for all of your hard work and your contribution to science.
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Do Now: What is one thing Sheboygan County could do to clean up or prevent more microplastics moving. into the waterways?
What have we done so far? 1. Written our Materials and Methods - Graded 2. Written some results Jan 4 - 3. Did some research for the Introduction - Dec 20 and Jan 6 4. Data Analysis and Results writing - Jan 3 and Jan 14 and Today Today:
Ticket Out: Should Sheboygan County do something about plastic pollution? .Learning Goal: Analyze sampling data and comparing it to other data collected in the Sheboygan River area by other scientists.
Do Now: What is one thing you recall from the NOVA video we have been watching? 1. Please open you assignment in Google Classroom. We will go through this assignment together and have some class discussions as we go. How does our data compare to what has already been found in the Sheboygan River watershed? 2. Analyze our data by counting up the percentages of different types of plastics found. 3. Compare our percentages to the data from other research groups and write that up in our Discussion section of our Final Plastics Paper. Ticket out: What do you think would be a main source of plastics in our River? Learning Goals: We are continuing to work on our professional writing of the introduction to our microplastics paper. Do now: Complete the Microplastics Paper Goal Setting Google Form 1. Please open and fill out the Microplastics Paper goal Setting Form 2. Movement warm-up 3. Work for 30 minutes on your research. 4. Computers away and we will do a 5. Notice Wonder Think - Watch part of "Beyond the Elements - Indestructible" Ticket Out: Share one of your favorite questions...verbally Learning Goal: Analyze and write up our microplastic results. Professional communication.
Yay! We are at the point where we can communicate our results to the public. Today we will be working on using professional writing to communicate what we found during our sampling. Please go to google Classroom to find the data spreadsheet and your worksheet for writing today. Y Learning Goal: Analyze our data to look for patterns or trends.
Welcome back! See Google Classroom for the Google Doc and the Google Spreadsheet of our data Goal: Read and annotate a scientific article to search for information we can use for our introduction.
Do Now: Please help me move the tables into 5 groups. Lesson: 1) Go to Google Classroom and open today's assignment. 2) Introduce the article we are reading today to search for background information for our paper. 3) Move into groups - each group will have a section of the article to read and annotate Reading Focus: Is this information that my audience needs to know to understand our study? 4) As a group, read the section assigned your group. As a group, make sure you do not move on until the whole group understands what you are reading. Look stuff up if necessary. 5) Use the sentence starters on your Doc your annotations. Annotations should describe why this information is useful in our introduction. Information that leads us to questions we could try to answer in a future study is also really useful. 6) After you have finished with your section, you will join into new groups, read the important parts of your sections and share your annotations with the rest of the group so they can learn what you found and make their own annotations.
Goal: Finish describing our materials and Methods for out Microplastics Study research paper.
As a class, we will get ideas on how to describe the sites we sampled and how to use Google Maps to create a map with the sites to add to our paper. Success Criteria: You have written descriptions of each site as well as an image of the sites labeled and added to your Google Doc paper. Some individuals have decided to work in teams of two to write their paper. Do Now: Get Ready
Do Next: Get into Groups!
Whole Group Share Out: We will go around the room and everyone will share one idea that they heard that they hadn’t thought of, OR a question they were asked that they didn’t know the answer to. Create a formal plan! Using the sheet of paper in front of you, draft a formal plan for your solution. We will go over each step as a group, with individual work time in-between each one. This includes:
Ticket Out Turn in your EDP worksheet from today. We will be using them for an activity tomorrow. Goal: Use the practice of engineering to design a solution to the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV - Robot) buoyancy problem to help the class choose the next solution.
Background: On Friday, we watched the test of the Robot in the pool. (Click the link to watch it). We saw that it did not operate as we wanted it to. We need to design a solution to the buoyancy issues we saw. Let’s use the engineering and design process to solve the problem. Mini-Lesson: 1) Watch the video of the ROV from Friday. 2) Begin the process of imagining and planning a solution to our buoyancy problem. Go to Google Classroom to find your copy of this organizer to record your thinking and ideas through the design process. 3) Discuss as a class the steps you will go through to design a solution. Studio Time: Work on your solution. We will stop a few times to share ideas with the class and evaluate possible solutions. Gallery Walk to offer “I like,” “I wish,” “I wonder” feedback. Class discussion to choose the best solution to build and test next. Verbal Ticket out: Did you agree with the class decision? Why or why not? |
Course DescriptionStudents will be creating a standardized method of collecting microplastics in conjunction with community science members. A mobile application will be created to quantify the amount of microplastics throughout the Great Lakes.
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