Science Is 1.2

Title: The Nature of Science

Author: CarlaCota

Subject: Biology

Grade:  6th

Week: Sept. 8-12

Unit/Lesson Plan #: Unit 1, ch 1 lesson 1

Unit theme: Explores the nature of science and what it means to be a scientisit.

Textbook references:

pages 5-17

Source book page S2

Learning objectives:

Getting started with to solve probelms, think, observe, and solve like scientist.

Key Questions, Concepts, or Themes:

Stage 1:Display serval open baby-foods jars filled to the rim with uncooked rice. Ask students to try find a way to life the jar using only one sharpened pencil and without spilling any of the rice. After the students have had a chance to experiment, you can demonstrate the solution. (insert pencil about halfway into the jar with the pointed end down. Pressdown on rice with fingers. Insert the pencil a little further down, and then press on the rice again. Life the jar by holding only the pencil.)

Friction between the grains of rice and the pencil makes this work! 

Students have begun to think like scientisit in attepting to solve the problem.

Stage 2:Science is... as a volunteer to read aloud the quotation on page5;

ASK:

1. Why is a scientisit an explorer?

2. Why does a scientisit sometimes travel uncharted paths?

Stage 3: SOURCEBOOK pages 2: Write about the word Science and when it was coined.

Using Science ficton: A wrinkle in Time

Homework: No homework in this class?

Read Pages S2-S4 take reading-study notes in notebook

Assessments: (attach/link copies)

__ Group assessment

__ Observation of process/student work

__ Self-assessment by student

__ Teacher generated assignment

__ Written project

__ Test/Quiz

__ Other: ____________________________________