Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments SC.912.L.16.In.5 Identify ways that biotechnology has Essential Understanding: Weekly Assignment 14: Concrete: Students will identify examples of impacted society and the environment, such as the Investigate and report how science is used to medicine. development of new medicines and farming techniques. develop new food and/or medicine Representation: Students will explain how SC.912.L.16.Su.4 Recognize that new medicines and foods (biotechnology). science can improve our lives. can be developed by science (biotechnology). SC.912.L.16.Pa.4 Recognize a food. Essential Question: What new foods has science helped create? Describe the basic process of human development from Essential Understanding: Weekly Assignments 15 & 16: Concrete: Students will recognize pictures of fertilization to birth. Label the steps in the sequence of human babies. Recognize major phases in the process of human development (baby, childhood, adult). Then, Representation: Students will create a development from fertilization to birth. design & present a PowerPoint depicting presentation showcasing human development. Recognize the sequence of human development from baby your examples (using staff pictures). to child to adult. Essential Question: What did I look like when I were younger? Identify that living things in an ecosystem are affected by Essential Understanding: Weekly Assignments 17 & 18: Concrete: Students will identify examples of changes in the environment, such as changes to the food Research different ecosystems, and create a ecosystems. supply, climate change, or the introduction of predators. presentation showing how the living things Representation: Students will explain how Recognize how animals and plants in an ecosystem may be there can be affected by changes in the living things are affected by their affected by changes to the food supply or climate. environment (disruption to food supply, environments. Recognize what happens to plants and animals when they weather, and introduction of predators). enough food or water. don’t get Essential Question: What is an example of a predator?
Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will identify examples of medicine. Representation: Students will explain how science can improve our lives. Essential Question: What new foods has science helped create? SC.912.L.16.In.5 Identify ways that biotechnology has impacted society and the environment, such as the development of new medicines and farming techniques. SC.912.L.16.Su.4 Recognize that new medicines and foods can be developed by science (biotechnology). SC.912.L.16.Pa.4 Recognize a food. Weekly Assignment 14: Investigate and report how science is used to develop new food and/or medicine (biotechnology). Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will recognize pictures of babies. Representation: Students will create a presentation showcasing human development. Essential Question: What did I look like when I were younger? Describe the basic process of human development from fertilization to birth. Recognize major phases in the process of human development from fertilization to birth. Recognize the sequence of human development from baby to child to adult. Weekly Assignments 15 & 16: Label the steps in the sequence of human development (baby, childhood, adult). Then, design & present a PowerPoint depicting your examples (using staff pictures). Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will identify examples of ecosystems. Representation: Students will explain how living things are affected by their environments. Essential Question: What is an example of a predator? Identify that living things in an ecosystem are affected by changes in the environment, such as changes to the food supply, climate change, or the introduction of predators. Recognize how animals and plants in an ecosystem may be affected by changes to the food supply or climate. Recognize what happens to plants and animals when they don’t get enough food or water. Weekly Assignments 17 & 18: Research different ecosystems, and create a presentation showing how the living things there can be affected by changes in the environment (disruption to food supply, weather, and introduction of predators).
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