Week 2

8/21-8/25

Do Now - 8/21

Best way to eat potatoes?

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Agenda 8/21

• Termite Experimental Design Formative Assessment (40 min)
• Finish Experiments/Analyze Data
• Technology Introduction (10 min)
• Turnitin.com
• HMH

HW - Bring one artifact about yourself Tomorrow

Do Now - 8/22

What is your favorite vacation/trip you have taken? (Or maybe, where is your dream vacation?)

Agenda 8/22

• Artifact Investigation (40 min)
• Break (5 min)
• Final Termite CER (50 min)
• Experimental Terms Practice - if time permits

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HW - Experimental Design Summative Assessment Tues 8/29

Artifact Investigation

Focus Question: How does asking questions help me understand the world?

Cultural artifact (or social artifact) is a term used in the social sciences, particularly anthropology (the study of humans), ethnology (the study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them), and sociology (the study of social behavior and society). A cultural artifact is anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users.

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Task: Examine the artifacts to develop questions and make inferences to learn more about your teacher.

• Examine the artifact silently for 30 seconds.
• Write 1 observation about the artifact which lead to an inference and then a question.
• Share 1 observation that lead to an inference which lead to a question with your group.

Break (5 min)

Termite CER - CER How-to

Let’s look at the data

What does the data tell us how about why termites follow a black BIC pen?

What data supports the claim you chose? (Evidence = Data once it supports a claim)

• Do not use inference as your evidence
• Inferences can be used in your analysis (i.e. reasoning)

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Let’s look at an example of previous data.

Claim: Termites sense their environment…

Touch Evidence

• Whenever the termites are moving, they always move their antennas (sic) around.
• It stays near or in the line.
• Without using touch they wouldn’t have been able to even know where the line was.
• Using their legs they walk around to feel their environment around them.
• Termites didn’t go off the paper.
• They most likely felt when they were getting off the paper.
• They move faster when touched.

Claim: Termites sense their environment…

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Touch Reasoning:

• This is because if they saw the circles, they would stay in them. The could feel the brush, and they moved.
• This is because they were very close to getting off the paper, but it went back on.
• The termites touched the path and sensed that it was ok to walk on.
• The termites coudn’t (sic) touch the air in between wood and paper so it doesn’t go out.
• This data shows that the termites use their antennas (sic) a lot and the antennas are used to touch things, and the termites use their sense of touch.
• They don’t tend to walk on pen.

Warm-up 8/24

What are the differences between an observation and an inference?

Agenda 8/24

• Termite CER
• Break (5 min)
• Peer Review of CER

HW - Experimental Design Summative Assessment Tues 8/29

In your new CER highlight the following:

Claim = Blue, green, orange or purple

Evidence = Yellow

Reasoning = Pink

Website

Absences?

Agendas?

Slide Decks?

Homework?

Turnitin.com

• After logging into your DUSD account (either through email, drive, chrome, whatever), go to www.turnitin.com
• You may need to select “United States & Canada”
• Click “Sign in with Google”
• Then select your DUSD account if you have multiple Google accounts.
• Select “enroll in a class”
• Type in the Class ID and Enrollment Key (be sure to leave NO spaces before or after)
• From there, under Dublin High School, click “Biology” (may have a period listed after it).
• Click the assignment you would like to submit to (Termite Lab Report) and “Submit”.

Turnitin.com Class Info/Google Classroom

1st Period

Google Classroom

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Turnitin.com

Class ID: 40154925 Enrollment Key: scientist

Turnitin.com Class Info/Google Classroom

3rd Period

Google Classroom

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Turnitin.com

Class ID: 40154962 Enrollment Key: biologist

HMH

• After logging into your DUSD account (either through email, drive, chrome, whatever), go to CLEVER
• Scroll down to resources until you find this image:
• Click the heart to save it to your pages.
• Then click on it.
• Once there, you may need to change the language.
• Click the “Discover” tab to access any of the textbook without it being assigned.
• Assigned work will be on the main homepage.

Break (5 min)

CER Peer Evaluation

• On the rubric checklist you have, write the number of the paper you are reviewing at the top.
• Evaluate the work and then switch papers with another student at your table group.
• Review one more student’s work in the same way.
• Then return the paper and both checklists to the basket.

SEP 3 Experimental Terms Practice Jigsaw

• Read your assigned experiment.
• Answer the questions on the paper provided. (10 min)
• Once time is called, get into your larger group with other students that have your same assigned experiment (they are numbered), and share out. (5 min)
• As a larger group, use the large whiteboard to note the relevant information to the class and nominate 1-2 people to present that info. (5 min)
• I will have the experiment on the TV so you don’t need to re-write that.
• Present (2 min/group)