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DEMOCRACY
Name:_Kim Insana
Date: 10/30/2014
Unit Essential Question: Understand simple experimental design, identify
independent, dependent, and control variables.
Lesson Topic: Experimental design with emphasis on utilizing the Scientific
Method while producing a REPEATABLE procedure.
Class: ESS Per. 3
PLANNING THE LESSON
With Democracy and Social Justice at the Center of Instruction
Focusing on the National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER)
Mission the 4-Part Agenda for Education in a Democracy
EQUAL ACCESS
ENCULTURATION
NURTURING
PEDAGOGY
STEWARDSHIP
To Knowledge
In Democratic Society
Safe and Caring for
All
of the Mission
Enculturation in democratic society. Students will be participating in a
scientific practice that is followed by all scientists when conducting
experiments. Students will connect to this part of the mission as they learn to
follow the same practices scientists do in the career world. We will be
preparing them to enter the real world and possibly a science career where
they will practice collecting data, coming to conclusions and justifying their
conclusions with sound evidence.
STANDARDS
(www.cde.state.co)
Content:
Evaluate evidence that
Earths geosphere,
atmosphere,
hydrosphere, and
biosphere interact as a
complex system.
OBJECTIVES
Literacy and
Numeracy:
Write clearly and
coherently for a variety
of purposes and
audiences.
Democracy and
21st Century Skills:
Conduct research using
acceptable research
methods.
Content:
SWBAT design an
experiment with a
repeatable procedure
utilizing the Scientific
Method by completing a
lab demonstrating
properties of water.
Literacy and
Numeracy:
SWBAT write clearly
and coherently when
constructing a lab
report in order to
communicate
experimental data and
conclusions gathered in
a lab exploring
properties of water.
Democracy and
21st Century Skills:
SWBAT design an
experiment in order to
explore the properties
of water for the
purpose of conducting
research using
acceptable research
methods.
Literacy and
Numeracy:
Students will complete
a lab report that is
written clearly
communicating their
experimental findings
and demonstrates their
knowledge of the
English language.
Democracy and
21st Century Skills:
Students will conduct
research and use
accepted research
methods which I can
observe as they design
an experiment to
explore the properties
of water.
Literacy and
Numeracy
Clearly
Coherently
Concise
Democracy and
21st Century Skills
Acceptable Research
Methods
report
ASSESSMENTS
Content:
Students will successfully
design an procedure that
can be repeated, collect
experimental data, and
will be observed
implementing the
Scientific Method into
their experiment and
their lab reports.
KEY VOCABULARY
Content
Scientific Method
hypothesis
independent variable
dependent variable
control variable
repeatable
Democracy and
21st Century Skills
Why is it important to
use accepted research
methods as a scientist?
LESSON FLOW
This is the actual planning of the lesson activities.
Time
Time
7
minutes
Pre-Assessment
Pre-assessment will be a fill in the blank concept map modeling
the Scientific method. I will be able to gauge how much
students can recall concerning the scientific method. I can
address any misunderstandings and misconceptions, as
students will have to utilize the Scientific Method to conduct and
design the experiments being provided.
Higher order question should be asked! Why do
scientists use one universal method to conduct an
experiment?
Time
Building Background
Link to Experience: Students have previously learned about
the Scientific Method and have had some experience utilizing
the Scientific Method while experimenting and writing prior lab
reports.
Prior labs, students have been given the procedures and have
then written a lab report communicating their findings.
Link to Learning: Students will use the Scientific Method to
design an experimental procedure that is repeatable and then
students will write a lab report. The experiment will only provide
them with materials. The students are expected to design the
procedure and communicate their findings. They will model their
experimental procedure and experimental process after the
Scientific Method.
Time
Time
Time
Time
Time
Closure
As a class we will process the findings in the experiments. We
will discuss any questions they may have come across and we
will reflect on what is expected as they write up their lab. A TOD
will allow to authentically assess where they will need help as
they complete their lab reports.
Time
Next Step
Address concerns they have as they begin to write their lab
reports. Reflect and process on the properties of water they
explored. Continue to progress in the unit towards
understanding how the hydrosphere interacts as part of a
complex system (the essential unit learning)
again?