Day #11. Lesson plan
Assessing students using Cambridge style questions is crucial for fostering a supportive and effective learning environment. It helps us, teachers, tailor our instruction, provides students with necessary feedback, identifies learning gaps, and ensures that educational standards are met.
Objectives
- Students will demonstrate mastery of the topics covered
- Students will understand the impact of ocean acidification on marine organisms through theoretical knowledge and hands-on experimentation, collect data, analyze it and to draw conclusions.
Vocabulary
- Control Experiment: a group within an investigation or study that receives the same treatment as the experimental groups with the exception of the variable being testes.
- Control Variables: variables that are not being tested but that must be kept the same in case they affect the experiment.
- Confounding Variable: A variable that could affect the independent or dependent variable and therefore the results of the experiment
- Systematic error: a consistent error which affects each measurement in the same way, normally caused by faulty measuring equipment or difficulties in reading that equipment
- Random error: an error in measurement which is caused by factors which vary from one measurement to another
Bellringer
- students review notes for 10 minutes.
Lesson
- Test– AICE Style questions (50 min)
After the Test, students will continue the lab activity started on day 5.
- The Effect of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms – Lab -cont.
- Students will conduct a final observation and pH measurement and shell weight of both containers.
- Record all final data and observations.
- Compile all recorded data from the week, including pH measurements and observations.
- Each group will analyze the data to determine the effects of increased acidity on the marine organisms or shells.
- Have all groups share the data and students calculate average change in the mass of shells.
- Compare the changes observed in the experimental container to those in the control container.
- Discuss the implications of the findings with the class.
- Students will write a lab report including hypothesis, description of materials and steps used to perform the experiment, data collection and analysis, graphing data and conclusions.
- Introduction to Chapter#1 Water
Homework – high level/flipped classroom
- Version A – For High-Level Students:
Ideal for independent or advanced learners, this version requires students to copy all notes by hand as homework before class. This flipped-learning approach helps students come to class prepared, freeing up time for application activities, discussions, and AICE-style practice questions. - For this assignment have students fill in the blanks using the PPT Presentation.
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