St. Edward’s Lesson Plan Template
Subject: Biology
Pd: 1&5
Grade level: 9
Date: Fri Oct 18/Mon Oct21
Coop. Teacher: Cheri Bielke
*Independent Practice
*Whole group Instruction
*Cooperative Learning
*Technology Integration
*Guided Practice/Exploration *Checking for Understanding/Explanation
Teacher: Erica Valdez
Campus: Bowie HS
*Centers *Modeling
*Lecture *Reteach
*A Project *Visuals
*Informal Assessment
OBJECTIVES:
- Students will be able to describe the different processes by
which cells store and release energy, specifically regarding the
role of ATP
- Students will be able to describe the differences between
aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration, including their
reactants and products
- Students will be able to identify and describe the basic steps of
photosynthesis and the parts of the plant cell where
photosynthesis takes place
- Students will be able to compare and contrast photosynthesis
and cellular respiration
TEKS/Standards:
Homework:
(9) Science concepts. The student knows the significance of various
molecules involved in metabolic processes and energy conversions that
occur in living organisms. The student is expected to:
(B) compare the reactants and products of photosynthesis and cellular
respiration in terms of energy and matter;
MATERIALS
Students: writing utensil, completed vocabulary homework, cell energy
notes from last time
Teacher: graded tests, copies of photosynthesis webquest worksheet
Activity & Time
Student Objectives & Procedures: What
Students Do
I. WARM-UP/
Anticipatory Set
title: Review Test
Objective(s):
- Students will review concepts and
*pedagogical purpose:
facts not mastered in DNA Replication
checking for
and Mitosis/Cell Cycle Unit Test.
understanding, whole
missed information from test previous
group
time
instruction/discussion
- Students will get clarification over
anything misunderstood on test
Materials: graded tests
through reteach and in-depth
explanation of concept on board, as
well as references back to notes
Student Procedures
- Students will direct their attention to
teacher at front of class
Teacher Procedures: What Teacher
Does
Teacher Procedures
- Welcome students and gather
attention at front of room
- Instruct students to turn in
vocabulary homework to
inbox
- Distribute graded tests
- Using projector, review most
missed questions on test,
explaining answers and
identifying why each answer
was correct and why other
options were incorrect
- Involve students in identifying
why/why not particular
St. Edward’s Lesson Plan Template
Subject: Biology
Pd: 1&5
Grade level: 9
Date: Fri Oct 18/Mon Oct21
Coop. Teacher: Cheri Bielke
- When instructed, students will turn in
their vocabulary homework to the
10-15
inbox at front of class
minutes
- Once distributed, students will review
their tests and follow along to
questions that are being reviewed by
teacher on projector
- When instructed, students will identify
any other questions on test that they
may have
- Answers to questions will be
discussed as a whole class, with
students being called on to answer
questions
Teacher: Erica Valdez
Campus: Bowie HS
answers are correct by calling
on volunteers/randomly
calling on students to refer
back to notes or worksheets
that explain concept
- Instruct students to identify
any questions about material
covered on the DNA
Replication and Mitosis/Cell
Cycle Unit Test test and
discuss answers as a whole
class
- Call on students to explain
concepts to other students
II. LESSON
STRUCTURE/ACTIVITIES*
*(see list at top of form)
1st
Activity
title: Finishing Cell
Energy Notes
Objective(s):
Teacher Procedures
- Students will compare and contrast
- Transition to next activity by
photosynthesis and cellular respiration
instructing students to put
- Students will identify and give their
away tests and to take out
own examples of what producers and
their cell energy notes from
consumers are.
last time
- Students will describe the placement
- Instruct students to quietly
of producers and consumers in the
follow along to PowerPoint
context of a food web.
and complete their Cell
- Students will take notes on the
Energy Note sheets
processes by which cells store (and
- Take time to further explain
release energy and cellular respiration
difficult concepts using white
and photosynthesis).
board to draw additional
models/demonstrations.
- Instruct students to sketch or
Student Procedures:
take additional notes for
- When instructed, students will put
clarification of complex
away tests and take out their Cell
concepts on Cell Energy
Energy Notes which were begun last
Notes sheet as teacher
class
models them on white board
- Students will quietly follow along with
the projected Cell Energy PowerPoint
notes, completing the notes on their
Cell Energy Notes handout, listening
to the teacher’s presentation, and
asking questions as needed.
- Students will add sketches and
additional notes for clarification of
complex concepts as teacher models
them on white board
*pedagogical purpose:
Whole group
instruction/reteach
Materials:
20
min
St. Edward’s Lesson Plan Template
Subject: Biology
Pd: 1&5
Grade level: 9
Date: Fri Oct 18/Mon Oct21
Coop. Teacher: Cheri Bielke
nd
2
Objective(s):
Activity
- Students will identify and describe the
molecules involved in photosynthesis
title: Photosynthesis
- Students will write the chemical
WebQuest
equation for photosynthesis
- Students will verbally describe what
*pedagogical purpose:
the chemical equation for
technology integration,
photosynthesis means.
guided exploration
Student Procedures:
Materials: WebQuest
- When instructed, students will put
worksheet, computer
away belongings and listen to a
review of the criteria for appropriate
behavior when outside of classroom
- Students will follow teacher to library
30
- Students will go to their designated
min
computer as assigned by the teacher
and log in.
- Once the Photosynthesis Webquest
worksheets have been distributed,
students will begin working on their
webquest
- Should any students complete the
worksheet early, they will go to
appropriate links to view animations
on cellular respiration
- Once all students have completed the
Photosynthesis webquest, they will
log off computers and tidy computer
lab area
- Students will quietly follow teacher
back to classroom.
3rd Activity
title: Cellular
Respiration Animations
(should time allow)
Objective(s):
- Students will observe process of
cellular respiration through online
animations
*pedagogical purpose:
technology integration,
guided instruction
Student Procedures:
- Students will return to seats
- Students will quietly watch online
animations of cellular respiration as
they are guided by teacher, through
verbal description and explanation of
animation
- Students will ask any questions and
Materials: laptop
Teacher: Erica Valdez
Campus: Bowie HS
Teacher Procedures
- Transition to next activity by
instructing students to put
away all belongings except
for a writing utensil
- Remind students of
appropriate behavior when
outside of the class
1. Being quiet and courteous
of other classrooms
2. Respecting computer lab
area and computers
- Direct students towards
library computer lab
- Instruct students to go to
designated computer and log
on
- Distribute WebQuest
worksheet and instruct
students to type in
appropriate URL and begin
working
- Address any questions or
difficulties students may have
with webquest by continually
monitoring
- Should any students finish
early, direct them to links for
cellular respiration animations
- Once all students have
completed WebQuest,
instruct students to log off
computers and tidy computer
lab area, to ensure it is left
the same as when we arrived
- Direct students to follow
quietly back to classroom
Teacher Procedures
- Direct students to return to
classroom seats
- Play animations of cellular
respiration for students on
projector, describing each
step as they are presented,
stopping when necessary to
address questions as well as
to ask probing questions
about what they are seeing
St. Edward’s Lesson Plan Template
8
min
Subject: Biology
Pd: 1&5
Grade level: 9
Date: Fri Oct 18/Mon Oct21
Coop. Teacher: Cheri Bielke
will answer probing questions about
what they are seeing
Teacher: Erica Valdez
Campus: Bowie HS
III. CLOSURE
title: Closing
remarks/review
questions
*pedagogical purpose:
checking for
understanding
Materials: none
5
min
Objective(s):
- Students will recap information
learned regarding photosynthesis and
cellular respiration
- Students will record Homework(study
notes at home) in their planner/phone.
Student Procedures
- When instructed, students will begin
putting away belongings
- Students will make reminder for
themselves in planner or notes to
review notes before next class period
- Students will discuss answers to
questions on cellular respiration and
photosynthesis as a whole class.
Teacher Procedures
- Instruct students to begin
putting away belongings
- Remind students to review
notes at home before next
class period
Review photosynthesis and
cellular respiration through
the following questions:
1. How are cellular
respiration and
photosynthesis similar?
How are they different?
2. What is the difference
between aerobic and
anaerobic respiration?
3. What is an example of
each?
- Call on students to answer
and discuss answers as a
whole class
Planned Modifications and Differentiation:
(ILL/504/SpEd accommodations)
None
Assessment(s): (attach copies of assessment documents, criteria and rubrics)
- WebQuest assignment, 12 questions, each worth ~8.3 points out of a 100 point total,
taken as a daily grade
Data collection and analysis:
St. Edward’s Lesson Plan Template
Subject: Biology
Pd: 1&5
Date: Fri Oct 18/Mon Oct21
Grade level: 9
Coop. Teacher: Cheri Bielke
Teacher: Erica Valdez
Campus: Bowie HS
Resources: (Include coursework, internships, Internet resources, colleagues, textbooks, etc)
- NOVA beta, Photosynthesis Interactive Animation,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/photosynthesis.html
- Photosynthesis WebQuest worksheet, Adapted from Rancic, found at
http://www.nclark.net/PhotoRespiration
- Cellular Respiration Animations, from Graham Kent at Smith College, found at
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/Bio231/
Post-Lesson Reflection: