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CHYHS Lafferty Spring 2017

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Goals/Big picture:

1. Please describe what outcomes both for yourself and your students that you wish to achieve by participating in PlantingScience. 

I would like my students to have the experience of communicating with a professional about a research project. Previous Planting Science groups have enjoyed answering questions from the researchers and I hope the groups this year have a similar experience.

 

2. What is the name of the course you are teaching (optionally include a short description of what you will cover and how PlantingScience fits into the larger course).

The groups will be freshmen biology classes. The topics we will be covering in the classroom include:

- “describe the interactions that occur among systems that perform the functions of transport, reproduction, and response in plants

- analyze and evaluate how the elements of natural selection, including inherited variation, the potential of a population to produce more offspring than can survive, and a finite supply of environmental resources, result in differential reproductive success

- predict possible outcomes of various genetic combinations such as monohybrid crosses, dihybrid crosses and non-Mendelian inheritance”

 

3. How much have you taught regarding the topics of the investigation theme (e.g. photosynthesis, genetics) prior to starting this investigation? Are you using PlantingScience to reinforce concepts already learned or more of a discovery tool for generating ideas about the topic? We have covered basic Mendelian Genetics.

I am using this as a tool for discovering the environmental effects on phenotypes.

 

Important dates and times:

1. Please estimate your start date (must be after session start). Your start date is the day your students first login online, with your pre-selected username and password.

March 20

 

2. Please estimate your end date. Your end date is when students last post to say goodbye to the mentors.

April 28

 

3. Are there timeframes during your class inquiry the students will not access the website, such as school breaks? (Please note this in the calendar when you customize your group page)

The kids will be able to access their computers throughout the six weeks.

 

4. Class meeting time(s): What time and which day(s) of the week does your class meet?

1st class - 10:50 to 11:30

2nd class - 1:50 to 2:40

 

5. Estimated number of days per week your students will be able access the website to post information &/or communicate with mentors.

Daily

 

Classroom demographics and expectations:

1. Science background and language skills. Please relay any details about your student population that would help the mentors communicate with your teams.  For example, do they have exceptionally high motivation, little previous science experience, or include a large proportion of English as a second language (ESL) speakers? What are the first language(s) of your ESL students?

All my students speak English.


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