Science Midterm

Interpret what they learn and express it in their own words.

Releate concepts to real-world experiences

Find patterens in data collected

Be able to draw inferences, make predictions, construct explanations, and solve problems by applying their knowledge and investigatiive findings.

Proficient understanding - students use knowledge and skills they have gained in new problem situations.

Satisfactory understanding - students's understanding enables them to succeed with new tasks with only minium amounts of techer scaffolding.

Limited understanding - students succeed on new tasks, but only with teacher and peer support in the form of prompts, hints, and direct instruction.

No understanding - students fail to succeed on new tasks.

teacher supply external support that helps learners be successful.

• Set challenging ind interesting learning tasks
• Simplfy tasks for students
• Ask meaningful questions
• Supply necessary information, concepts, and principles for learning.

Using previously learned knowledge in new situations.

REfers to the recognition that if an object or situation is tranformed in some way, there still may be aspects of the objects or situation that remain the same.

The construction of knowledge in specific situations.

Refers to the general growth and change of cognitive structures that allow knowledge and performance capabilitiesbto be exctended form particullar general cases.

Concept Maps

Venn diagrams

Spider Maps

Webs

In tradtional classrooms, students are treated as relatively passive learners who receive wisdom from teacchers, textbooks, or other media. In the community of learning classroom, students are encourged to engage in self-reflective learning and critical inquiry.

Allowing students to copperativly work and think together.

Arranging for students to engage in investigative activities in small groups.

Allowing students to scaffold one another's learning.

Type A

Type B

Type O

Type AB

An alternative form of a gene

A gene that almost always results in a specific physical characteristic.

A gene that is usually "masked" or hidden

Fundemental unit of heredity

The nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all living organisms.

Delivers DNA's gentic message to the cytoplasm of a cell.

Situation in which alleles are equally strong

The self-replicating genetic structure of cells. (humans have 23 pairs.)

Select Content Consistant with State and National Standards

Write learning objectives

Select and design lesson activities

Introduce lesson in an engaging manner

Use discrepant events

Present a varity of lesson activities

Field Trips

Gathering assessment information during the instructional process

Assessment at the end of the instructional unit

Often used in inquiry learning

Whole class structure

Cooperative Group structure

Pair Structure

Individual Structure

Teacher lectures, demonstrates, or guides the entire class on discussion.

Students work in small groups to collect data and exchange ideas.

Establish rules for behavior

Monitor student's activities

Enforce disciplinary consequences when necessary

Teacher preperation

Pre-activity

Distribution and collection of matericals

Beginning the Activity

During the activity

After the activity

Formulate, organize, and dry run your lesson activities.

Give good working directions, establish grouping, and provide time for questions.

Establish an efficient method of distribution and collection

Check each group to ascertain their understanding of the directions

Move about the room, don't spend too much timme with any one group, constantly access student behavior.

Make sure students clean up their stations and return matericals to their proper place, help the students to access their proformannces concerning the activity.

Found in Northern Alaska, Canada, and Siberia

Less than 10 inches of rainfall per year

Land of Permafrost

Up to two months of darkness durung the year

Three months growing season

Home of the mush ox, arctic wolf, brown bear, lemming and ptarmigan

Lichen, mosses, and low-growing shrubs and grasses (1700 kinds of plants).

Found in parts of Africa, India, Southern Brazil, Australia, and the Everglades of Southern Florida

10-50 inches of rainfall each year.

Six to eight month wet summer season

Frequent grass fires

Elephants, wilderbeests, warthogs, zebras, rhinos, lions, weavers, and giraffes and found here.

Variety of grasses along with acacia and baobab trees (africa).

Found along the equator in Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia

60-160 inches of rainfall per year (evenly distributed)

No seasons - always hot

Home of monkeys, toucans, poison dart frogs, sloths, and lizards

Huge variety of tropical trees and plants

Rain forests are being destroyed at the rate of 80 acres per minute.

Most animals on the rain forest are tree dwellers

There are more varieties of plant and animal life on one acre of the tropical rain forest than all of the other boimes put together.

Found in Australia, North Africa, and the western part of the U.S.

Less than 10 inches of rainfall per year

Hot during the day and cold at night

Occasional flash flooding

Jackrabbits, kangaroo rats, rattlesnakes, and gila monsters are found here

Examples of vegitation are short grasses, sagebrush, and cacti

Found in northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia

10-30 inches of rainfall per year

Long, cold winters, with short, cool summers

Moose, deer, bears, chipmunks, ermine, bald eagles, and woodpeackers are found here.

Many trees including spruce, fur, and pine.

Found at the North and South Poles

Land of eternal cold and snow, land of the midnight sun.

Land of the penguin and polar bear

Six months of daylight six months of darkness

Found at mid-latitudes in Europe and the united States

30-50 inches of rainfall per year

Mild summers and mild winters

Bears, raccoons, squirrels, skunks, and coyotes are found here

A variety of trees are found here including: maple, oak, hickory, and walnut

the trees lose their leavves in the fall

Found in central United States (prairies), Southern South America (pampas), and South Africa

10-30 inches of rainfall per year

Summers are hot and the winters are cold

Animals including bison, antelopes, ground birds, gophers, and prairie dogs.

Vegetation consists of foxtail, rye gress, and buffalo grass.