Today, students completed an investigation to show what they know about asking testable questions, collecting evidence, analyzing evidence, and identifying the next steps in a scientific investigation. Friday, students will evaluate each other's reports, and we will begin out new unit, Classification of Life. This unit corresponds to Chapter 9 in the book. On Friday, students will set up their notebooks for the new unit, with a new unit title page and the statement and questions of inquiry written on the back of the cover page. The new statements and questions will be:
Statement of Inquiry: Classification systems are models developed by scientists to understand the diverse identities of living things based on the relationships between their forms and functions.
Inquiry Questions:
Factual: What criteria distinguish living organisms from non-living things on Earth? How do scientists classify and organize living things?
Conceptual: How do classification tools show relationships between living things? How does the understanding of these relationships evolve over time?
Debatable: What might cause the scientific community to change their criteria for what defines a living organism, or change their system of classification?
Study Skills: To prepare for the new unit, students should preview chapter 9, lesson 1 in their books. This begins on page 331 in their hard copy books, or 300 in the online book. To preview, read all titles and subtitles, look at pictures, figures, and tables, read the questions in the margins, and read the highlighted vocabulary words.
I hope everyone enjoys their day off. See you all on Friday!
Statement of Inquiry: Classification systems are models developed by scientists to understand the diverse identities of living things based on the relationships between their forms and functions.
Inquiry Questions:
Factual: What criteria distinguish living organisms from non-living things on Earth? How do scientists classify and organize living things?
Conceptual: How do classification tools show relationships between living things? How does the understanding of these relationships evolve over time?
Debatable: What might cause the scientific community to change their criteria for what defines a living organism, or change their system of classification?
Study Skills: To prepare for the new unit, students should preview chapter 9, lesson 1 in their books. This begins on page 331 in their hard copy books, or 300 in the online book. To preview, read all titles and subtitles, look at pictures, figures, and tables, read the questions in the margins, and read the highlighted vocabulary words.
I hope everyone enjoys their day off. See you all on Friday!