LESSON STUDY COVER PAGE
LESSON TITLE:
Steps of Scientific Method Construct a Concept
LEAD TEACHER (S): Who will be teaching the new lesson?
OBSERVING TEACHER(S): Who will be observing and collecting data?
RESEARCHING STUDENT NEED AND INTERVENTION
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT NEED: what student need has the lead teacher identified? Could be qualitative/observation
quantitative/data. May be life skills or content specific.
STUDENT LEARNING GOALS : You might have one for all three or focus on social (life skills), content, and/or language.
This is from the explicit instruction model.
CONTENT/LANGUAGE: I will be able to describe 7 science concepts in my own words and match them to a book
definition. I will do this by reading and thinking critically.
SOCIAL: I will collaborate with the class, team/partner, and then on my own by reading and recording examples in the
correct place in a courteous and respectful manner.
LESSON DESCRIPTION: (if on the document just refer to that)
Brief description of what will be happening. What will the teacher andstudent be doing? What teaching will be method
used: Teacher begins with allowing students to read the first example. Then simply give the students the first reading
samples entries on the graphic organizer. This establishes a pattern. Then have them read the second reading sample
and the as a class enter the examples for each shape. Finally, have them read the next sample and fill in the shapes with
their team. Scaffold down until you are at the individual level. This example (individual) can be used as a formative
assessment.
Then students need to write their own description of each category. Wrap up with giving them the book definitions.
These can also be used as a formative assessment.
Part of the core (content, standard, objective, indicator): ILO: How Science is Done
ASSESSMENT: Formative quiz-like, mini-experiment that the students will take and teachers use to assess student
achievement.
OBSERVING AND COLLECTING DATA
OBSERVER TEACHER(S):
Who will be observing:
What data does the lead teacher want the observer to collect to assess student achievement:
PROJECTED DATE TO TEACH AND OBSERVE LESSON: Approximate date
REFLECTION AND REVISION
PROJECTED REVISION DATE: Approximate date
ASSESSMENT: What did the collected data and formative assessment show us?
WHAT DID THE LEAD TEACHER SEE THAT TELLS THEM THE LESSON WENT WELL?
Engaged kids. Felt confident that the students HAD to be thinking in order to get the answers and identify patterns.
Same for writing the group (shapes ) descriptions.
WHAT WOULD THE LEAD TEACHER DO DIFFERENTLY NEXT TIME?
Provide highlighted or shorter reading samples for ESL or SpEd students. Another thing that was tried was to put lower
reading level students in groups and give them the rule (for each box/cell) so that they have something specific to look
for. This seemed to chunk it down to a single achievable goal. These students did not get lost as much as when they
were having to think about and construct the ideas AND be reading. Too much too fast for these students.
INCLUDE:
COMPLETED COVER PAGE
COPY OF LESSON
COPY OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Name: __________________________________ Hour: _____________
Steps of Scientific Method Construct a Concept
Science Is A Way Of Knowing
(Construct a Concept)
BeriBeri
Penicillin
Bart
Simpson
Why are
people
dying
Disease
caused
loss of
appetite,
read
medical
books.
Thought
the new
disease
was
caused by
bacteria in
blood
Injected
one group
of
chickens
with blood
from
patients
and
another
group of
chickens
did not
get
injected.
Injected
chickens
got sick,
but so did
those that
were not
injected
Maybe
the
disease is
not
caused
by
bacteria
in blood.
Compare
Chickens
that eat
polished
rice to
those
that eat
whole
grain and
see which
get sick
SpongeBob
& Patrick
MythBusters
Your
Team’s
Definition
of each
column
Book
Term and
Definition
of each
column
Science Is A Way of Knowing Stories:
The Strange Case of BeriBeri
In 1887 a strange nerve disease attacked the people in the Dutch East Indies. The disease was beriberi.
Symptoms of the disease included weakness and loss of appetite, victims often died of heart failure. The
scientists read medical books and found several other similar diseases that were caused by bacteria. Scientists
thought the disease might be caused by bacteria. They injected chickens with bacteria from the blood of patients
with beriberi. The injected chickens became sick. However, so did a group of chickens that were not injected
with bacteria. One of the scientists, Dr. Eijkman, noticed something. Before the experiment, all the chickens had
eaten whole-grain rice, but during the experiment, the chickens were fed polished rice. Dr. Eijkman researched
this interesting case. He found that polished rice lacked thiamine, a vitamin necessary for good health.
How Penicillin Was Discovered
In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming was studying Staphylococcus bacteria growing in culture
dishes. He noticed that a mold called Penicillium was also growing in some of the dishes. A
clear area existed around the mold because all the bacteria that had grown in this area had
died. He thought this was strange so he looked in the culture dishes without the mold and no
clear areas were present. The bacteria had not died in these. Fleming thought that the mold
must be producing a chemical that killed the bacteria. He decided to isolate this substance and
test it to see if it would kill bacteria. Fleming transferred the mold to a nutrient broth solution.
This solution contained all the materials the mold needed to grow. After the mold grew, he removed it from the
nutrient broth. Fleming then added the nutrient broth in which the mold had grown to a culture of bacteria. He
observed that the bacteria died in the cultures he added the mold nutrient broth to.
Bart Simpson Grows Vegetables
Bart Simpson loves to grow broccoli for his dad, Homer, who loves big, colorful broccoli. He
found a new brand of seeds coated with a special “booster” fertilizer that said it would
produce huge vegetables. He went and talked to Apu, who is a great gardener, and asked him
if he thought fertilizer could caused vegetables to grow bigger. Apu said he thinks so. So Bart
planted 5 of the new seeds in one container and 5 of the old brand of seeds in another
container. He placed both containers on a sunny windowsill and watered them every day. He
measured the diameter of each plant, which is shown in the chart.
Old Seeds
10 cm
12 cm
14 cm
6 cm
8 cm
New Seeds
8 cm
14 cm
10 cm
12 cm
16 cm
Ave= 10cm
Ave= 12cm
SpongeBob and Patrick Go Deep Sea Diving
SpongeBob and Patrick love to go deep sea diving. They wondered if a new brand of diving suit would help
them dive deeper. They wondered why and checked online. They found that they new suit has a new type of
material that is supposed to help with going deeper faster and it has more weight. They definitely thought this
new suit would be better. To test their idea, they bought one new suit and used one old suit for their next 3 trips
to their top-secret diving spot. SpongeBob dived with the old suit, while Patrick used the new suit. Both of
them kept track of how deep they were able to dive in 30 minutes, which is shown in the chart.
Patrick
SpongeBob
30
31
18
28
26
25
Ave=24.7
Ave=28
Mythbusters Get Green Thumbs
The Mythbusters team uncovers the myth of if you talk to your plants they will grow better. They start by
talking to a botanist (a person who studies plants) and the botanist says that they don’t really know, but they
doubt it. Jamie and Adam put the myth to the test thinking that the extra talking will not help the plants grow
more. They buy two ivies. Both plants will get the same amount of water and sunlight but they will each talk
to only one plant for 5 minutes each day. They measure the height of each plant at the end of each week for one
month. At the end of one month, the plant that did not get the extra talking was 2cm taller.
Category Book Definitions:
Book Definition
Category Name
An educated guess based on some information. Usually
beginnings with how, when, why, where.
State the Question
Conducting an experiment
Test /Observe
To create a follow up or second test to help learn more
about the question.
Repeat
Graphs, tables, data and charts that describe the findings
in an experiment
Results
Getting some information about a problem. Information
may be from experts, online, or other resources.
Gather Information
An educated guess. Usually based on some information.
Form a Hypothesis
Based on analyzing the results you should be able to
describe whether to accept or reject the hypothesis.
Conclusion