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Mitosis. Lesson Planning . What do you need to know about mitosis in order to teach it?. What is mitosis? Why should students learn mitosis? What big idea(s) will students learn? What prerequisite knowledge? What phenomena does mitosis explain? How much time do you have?.
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Mitosis Lesson Planning
What do you need to know about mitosis in order to teach it? • What is mitosis? • Why should students learn mitosis? • What big idea(s) will students learn? • What prerequisite knowledge? • What phenomena does mitosis explain? • How much time do you have?
What instructional strategies can science teachers use to help students learn science concepts? Brainstorm a list of possibilities.
Using this list, decide: What strategies would you use to teach the concept of mitosis?What sequence of instruct?
How did you design instruction to build student understanding? • How did you begin the sequence? • What happened next? • What work is the teacher doing? • What work are students doing? • How did you bring the sequence to a close?
According to what you have learned this semester, what steps/strategies should science instruction include?
Does your list include the following opportunities? • To assess/reveal prior knowledge? • To explore the phenomenon? • To help students construct a conceptual framework? • To apply their explanations to new situations? • To evaluate learning?