Biology+Literacy+Lesson+2

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Learning Objectives for Biology Literacy Lesson 2 Today's Homework Assignment:
 * Content Learning Objectives || Language Learning Objectives ||
 * Students will:
 * learn about and review scale and size from lesson 1
 * learn about the metric system || Students will:
 * write and speak about ideas.
 * translate for each other through structured think-pair-shares. ||
 * Summary section of your Cornell Notes

Check homework Due Today:
 * Summary section of your Cornell Notes from Monday.

Today's Agenda:

1. Continue/finish 2/28/11 Learning about Scale (don't copy, this is not in red)
 * Video:
 * Powers of Ten Video from 1977
 * Show the last part of this video, starting at 5:40 (this part starts with Earth an zooms in to a proton).
 * Be sure to open this video before class to give it time to load on YouTube--it takes FOREVER to load. At least, it did when I viewed it.
 * Have students think-pair-share about what they saw in the video.
 * Show students this concept again using this scale example of "common knowledge" objects:
 * [|Scale and Size of common objects and the universe]
 * Show students this concept again using this scale example given to us by Annika Goodin:
 * Scale and Size
 * Again, have students think-pair-share about the scale and size of the things we are going to be learning about in this class.
 * **Finally, have students complete the following sentence frames in their notes**:
 * In this class, we are learning about ......... Instead of studying whole plants or whole animals, we will study parts of living things that are very, very, very ..................
 * The things we are studying in this class are so small that ...........................................................
 * Even though the things we will study are very small, they are still very important because .........................................................................................................
 * Have students pair-share their responses.
 * Call on a few students to read their sentences to the rest of the class.

2. 3/2/11 The Metric System Cornell Notes
 * Students will use a sheet of paper to draw a scale model of an object they are familiar with.
 * Introduce students to the metric system. Ask students what they already know about the metric system. Tell them the importance of the metric system
 * Give students a metric ruler.
 * Metric Ruler
 * Students write on the left side of their Cornell Notes the different levels of measurements:
 * Kilometer all the way down to..... nanometer?
 * Students complete the following sentence frame for each measurement:
 * A .... ...................... is ten ...........................
 * Students pare-share their responses.
 * Summarize your notes for homework.

3. 3/2/11 Scale Drawing using the Metric System
 * Pick one of these objects and draw it to scale where one centimeter equals one meter:
 * a soccer field
 * the classroom
 * your car
 * a basketball court
 * a pool
 * The first question you should ask:
 * In meters, what is the size of the object I want to draw?