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Writing to Learn and Demonstrate Learning. Writing through Science: Natural Selection. Prewrite. Activate prior knowledge Take 3-5 minutes to write down your ideas about natural selection. What do you think it means? What do you know or want to know about it? Share in groups. Video.
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Writing to Learn and Demonstrate Learning Writing through Science: Natural Selection
Prewrite • Activate prior knowledge • Take 3-5 minutes to write down your ideas about natural selection. What do you think it means? What do you know or want to know about it? • Share in groups.
Video • Darwin’s Natural Selection • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKz01UB8QrY • Darwin’s Song of Natural Selection • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt2gHpqfZNA
Reflect • Writing to Demonstrate Learning • Reflecting on the videos you just viewed, compare what you thought you knew to what you saw in the videos. • Did you learn anything you didn’t know before? • Were your ideas before viewing the same as after viewing?
Activity Natural Selection Unicorn Writing (Writing to Demonstrate Learning)
Extension/Connection • Flowers – What’s the relationship between animal beaks and flowers? • Pictures / Observations • As you view the pictures and the flowers, consider the animals that would be attracted to the different shapes of flowers.
Final Writing • After observing and viewing the flowers, make a list of the animals that you believe would be most attracted to the flowers and describe your reasoning. • Writing to Demonstrate Learning
Flowers • Daffodils • I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.The waves beside them danced; but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed--and gazed--but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils. • William Wordsworth
Flowers • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11hd_fEA9T0