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LEARNING GOAL: Reflect on work from the semester.
DO NOW: Warm Up w/Freeze VALUES/SUGGESTIONS: Listen to Scene One again. What works well? What could we change to make it even better? LIVE RECORDING (PLAN): Watch another episode of Intergalactic Nemesis. How could WE do a live recording? Learning goal: How do mut8ions in DNA and protein synthesis relate to proteins that are the cause of genetic diseases like Huntington's and Muscular Dystrophy?
Do Now: On the slip of paper you got as you walked in, please try to explain DNA to someone who has never heard of it before.
Radio Drama - Learning Goal: We are learning about how a person gets a bad Huntingtin protein. Then we will figure out how to use the characters in the biology of Huntington's disease to add to our radio drama.
Do Now: Movement warm-up - improv game called freeze - double blind freeze Take single students for recording Science lesson on mutations continued... Ticket out: What is one new idea for our story that you think we should do? LEARNING GOAL: Begin recording / explore genetic mutations
DO NOW: Warm Up w/What Are You Doing WARM & COOL FEEDBACK: Scene One We will read the first scene of our radio drama by going around the classroom. No assigned roles. Cast parts after reading through. DRAMA CONTINUES: Record dialogue, one character at a time. SCIENCE ACTIVITY: How do people end up with Huntington's disease or Muscular Dystrophy? Why are the proteins worng? :) Ticket out: Verbal - How would you characterize mutations? Would they be an evil character, a hero or just an average bit player in the drama of life? Goal: Radio drama or learn about mutations
Science activity: How do people end up with Huntington's disease or Muscular Dystrophy? Why are the proteins worng? :) LEARNING GOAL: Incorporate foley goals into story.
DO NOW: What Are You Doing Include sounds! CONNECT / EXTEND / CHALLENGE: Foley team will explain goals that they have for foley sounds. Identify easy connections to the story, new ideas that could be fun to include, and sounds that would be challenging to include. TEAMS: Set studio goals. Story team --> Finish outline, and create a list of scenes. Foley team --> Finish list of foley goals, and create a list of necessary supplies. Record if time? Music team --> What style of music do we want? STUDIO TIME: Make some progress on our radio drama. Goal: We are learning how a faulty dystrophin or huntingtin protein gets made. Do Now: Get ready to act out the process of protein synthesis (gene expression). Get out your notes sheet from Friday and review the steps of transcription and translation.
Next: Group up into two groups or whole class and get creative. You have ten minutes to create a human transcription and translation model. Have fun! Lesson: Mutations and how a dystrophin protein never grew up. You will have a paper handout of the lesson on mutations. We will work through it one section at a time. After we are finished with the mutation lesson, we will go back to some character development from our current learning. Goal: We are modeling and explaining how the dystrophin or huntingtin proteins get made in a person with the disease.
Do Now: Open up the Bioman Protein Synthesis Race and turn your new Gene Expression graphic organizer to the front. 1) As a class, work through the protein synthesis race and jot down any needed notes in the graphic organizer. BIG IDEAS:
Goal: Start answering the question, "How do muscle cells make dystrophin proteins or the huntingtin protein that is involved with Huntingtons disease?"
Do Now: Sketch and write on a piece of paper what you know about DNA, genes and chromosomes. How are they related to each other? Mini-Lesson: Background on DNA - Genes - Chromosomes - Take sketch notes. 1) Read the first page of the Lesson 4a packet. Circle all words you need to know more to understand. 2) With a partner to chat with, draw and label a digram of how you think gene expression works from what you just read. 3) Get out your Incremental Modeling Tracker. We will use this to draw our models of how gene expression works as we work through a game where we make a protein: Bioman Protein Race. 4) Write and draw a model for each step of protein synthesis as we play the game. As a class, we will stop and discuss each step to make sure everyone understands the key points and has a model drawn in their tracker. Ticket out: Turn in your tracker to Chris. |
Course DescriptionsDramatics usually focuses on the conflicting goals of human beings. However, rather than asking “Why is this human at odds with that human?” this class simply asks “Why is this human?” Students will study organisms on a microscopic level, from cell division to genetics, and learn about and tell the little stories that make us who we are.
Course AssignmentsScientist Debate Script: "Virus, alive or not?"
Class Expectations1. Respect others and materials.
2. Participate in class. 3. Keep phones away. 4. Always say, "yes!" |