Warm-up Your Brain and Make Observations
There are many different kinds fish.
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What do you see?
What do you wonder?
Utah Student Science Experience format adapted from the work developed by Chris Zieminski and TJ McKenna for NGSSphenomena.com
What are you seeing?
How Can I Explore What is Happening?
Look at the pictures on the next slides. Think about these questions.
Draw a fish.
Identify the body parts of the fish.
What body parts do you think help the fish avoid danger?
What parts helps the fish swim fast?
Circle those parts on your fish.
What Am I Thinking Now About this?
What parts of the body help the fish swim and avoid danger?
Do these parts look the same on all kinds of fish? How are they different?
What about these fish? What body parts help them swim and avoid danger?
What Can I Learn to Help Me Make Sense?
Developed by Chris Zieminski and TJ McKenna for NGSSphenomena.com
Read the following text:
The body shape or structure of a fish is important. Many fish that are slow-moving are round or may have developed spines, which make them hard to eat.
Other fish are very compact and thin so they can swim fast to catch their dinner or avoid being eaten.
Others fish are long and thin so they can hide in tight places like rocks to avoid predators. They can also dart out from their hiding space to prey upon other animals.
The streamlined bodies of fish are made to move through the water. Forked or indented tails are seen in fish that swim fast for long periods of time.
Fish that do not travel a long way usually have square or rounded tails that help them start swimming fast and allows them to stop quickly to avoid danger.
The body of most fish is covered in scales. This helps them move more quickly through the water. Some fish have a slime layer over the scales that helps with speed and offers less drag in the water.
What Can I Learn to Help Me Make Sense?
What is something new you learned?
What body parts help fish to swim and to avoid danger? How?
What can I do next?
Other noticings: What body parts of animals help them to move and avoid danger? How are these body parts similar and different to the body parts of fish?
Share what you learned with another person. How did it go?