UNIT 2 - Existence of Life & Manned Space
Subunit – Life: (What Allows Life to Exist (7.9A), Manned Space Exploration (7.9B), & Process TEKS (7.2A, 7.4A)
Monday
August 31
UNIT 1 – LAB SAFETY
PT: Lab Safety
1. Youtube Video: Lab
Safety
Rap
2. PPT – Student Notes (no
notes)
3. Quality Work in ISN:
> Chart of Lab Rules
> Rules/Label Drawing
of
Safe Student
(see Penguin videoYoutube)
HW:
Review for Lab Safety
Quiz (tomorrow) – play
“Existence of Life
Hangman” on Quia.com
Tuesday
September 1
QUIZ – Lab Safety
PBL UNIT 2 – Existence of
Life
1. TEAM: assign groups
* HO Contract
>Team Name
>Team Roles
> Norms (discuss)
2. Discuss team building
> Hold each other
accountable
> Students not
participating
will be removed from
group
> work on individual parts
w/in a group on project
> Should help each other
HW:
Finish organizing notebook
Wednesday
Thursday
2
3
1. See Lab Safety Quiz Grades
UNIT 2 – EXISTENCE OF
LIFE
UNIT 2 – EXISTENCE OF LIFE 1. Student Notes (PPT) 7.9.B2. Analyze Learner Rubric
> Teach how:
- TEKS/Standards
- Expectations (1-3)
- Discuss meaning of verbs
using Blooms Folders
3. Student Cornell Notes (PPT
on Edmodo.com: 7.9.A –
Supporting Life
>Write Title/Topic (explain
How to write Cornell
Notes)
> Add to table of contents
by topic & TEK
(Supporting
Life), pg. 2, TEK 7.9A –
Supporting Life
4. Answer 3 Research
Questions
> From Learner Rubric 3
levels
HW:
Finish organizing notebook
Manned Space
2. Analyze Rubric
> Read- TEKS/Standards
- Expectations (1-3)
- Discuss meaning of
verbs
using Blooms Folders
3. Student Cornell Notes
(PPT on Edmodo.com: 7.9.B
– Accommodations in Space
>Write Title/Topic -Cornell
Notes
> Add to table of
contents
by topic & TEK
(Accommodations in Space),
pg. 3, TEK 7.9B
Accommodations
in Space
4. Answer 3 Research
Questions
> From Learner Rubric
3 levels
HO: To Do List - discuss
HW:
Finish organizing notebook
Friday
4
UNIT 2 – EXISTENCE OF LIFE
DIYS – 7.9.A. Life on Earth
1. Required-Whole Group DIY #1 : “What Allows Life
to Exist on Earth” (paper plate activity)
2. DIY #2:
Video & Summary Paragraph – “Supporting Life”
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/astrobiology/conditions/
3. DIY #3:
“Habitable Planet Card Sort (Gateways)
Enrichment DIY:
“Just Right” game
DIYS – 7.9.B. Manned Space
1. DIY#1:
Fact or Fiction: Humans & Space
Exploration(Gateways)
2. DIY#2:
“What Do You Need to Survive in Space” (Gateways)
3. DIY#3:
“Space Exploration Problem Solution Card Sort”
(Gateways)
HW: review for Quiz on Tuesday – play “Supporting
Life Hangman” on Quia.com, and study Cornell Notes
in your ISN
UNIT 2 - Existence of Life & Manned Space
Subunit – Life: (What Allows Life to Exist (7.9A), Manned Space Exploration (7.9B), & Process TEKS (7.2A, 7.4A)
Monday
7
Tuesday
8
HOLIDAY!
UNIT 2 – EXISTENCE OF
Wednesday
9
UNIT 2 – EXISTENCE OF
LIFE
LIFE
QUIA QUIZ – Unit 1“Existence of Life” (students
must have
username/password to Quia)
* May use ISN and may take
quiz up to 3x – due by
Thursday, 9/10/15
DIYS – 7.9.A. Life on Earth
1. Required-Whole Group DIY
#1 “What Allows Life to Exist
on Earth” (paper plate activity)
See me if you were absent
Friday
DIYS – 7.9.A. Life on Earth
1. Required-Whole Group
DIY #1 “What Allows Life to
Exist on Earth” (paper plate
activity) See me if you were
absent Friday
2. DIY #2:
Video & Summary Paragraph
– “Supporting Life”
3. DIY #3:
“Habitable Planet Card Sort
(Gateways)
Enrichment DIY:
“Just Right” game
DIYS – 7.9.B. Manned Space
1. DIY#1:
Fact or Fiction: Humans &
Space Exploration(Gateways)
2. DIY#2:
“What Do You Need to
Survive in Space” (Gateways)
3. DIY#3:
2. DIY #2:
Video & Summary Paragraph –
“Supporting Life”
3. DIY #3:
“Habitable Planet Card Sort
(Gateways)
Enrichment DIY:
“Just Right” game
DIYS – 7.9.B. Manned Space
1. DIY#1:
Fact or Fiction: Humans &
Space Exploration(Gateways)
2. DIY#2:
“What Do You Need to Survive
in Space” (Gateways)
3. DIY#3:
“Space Exploration Problem
Solution Card Sort”
(Gateways)
Thursday
Friday
10
UNIT 2 – EXISTENCE
OF LIFE
11 UNIT 2 – EXISTENCE OF LIFE
Create Project
1. Introduce Project - An
interactive exhibit that will
encompass the information
from the following
standards: (Explain
Interactive)
7.9A - Analyze the
characteristics of objects in
our solar system that allow
life to exist such as:
proximity to the sun, the
presence and form of water,
and the composition of the
atmosphere
7.9B - Identify the
accommodations that enable
manned space exploration
such as: leaving Earth,
effects of microgravity on
the body, space suits, space
food, waste management,
living and working in space,
and the spacecraft
2. Hook – Video from
McConnell & McEuen
3. Read Challenge Brief
4. HO: Project Rubric discuss
4. Plan your project – what
will you use, if you want
other supplies – must bring
from home. Decide who
will bring what. Start
tomorrow!!!! You have 2
Seek Crit from other groups:
* Use “Desk Crit Protocol” HO
* Use “Student Crit” script (folder)
HW
Work on Project Due Monday
UNIT 2 - Existence of Life & Manned Space
Subunit – Life: (What Allows Life to Exist (7.9A), Manned Space Exploration (7.9B), & Process TEKS (7.2A, 7.4A)
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
“Space Exploration Problem
Solution Card Sort”
(Gateways)
Thursday
days in class and the
weekend
Teacher Desk Crit
DUE: September 14
UNIT 2 – EXISTENCE
OF LIFE
15 UNIT 2 – EXISTENCE OF
LIFE
1. DUE: Project
2. Teacher Crit – make sure
all requirements are included
Test – 7.9.A. & 7.9.B –
Quia.com
14
3. Practice Presentation
4. Review for Test
tomorrow –
Quia.com – “Supporting Life
hangman”
HW:
Take home ISN to study for
Test tomorrow
16
Groups Present Projects
Submit winners to
Curriculum Directors
(McConnell & McEuen) to
choose a winner
Projects on display in
library for voting
17
18
Friday