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The Quest of Biodiversity. Essential Question . Why do we need to protect and conserve?. Unit Questions. How can organisms successfully survive? Why does some organisms do not live in the same environment?. Content Questions. What is biodiversity? What is an organism?
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The Quest of Biodiversity
Essential Question Why do we need to protect and conserve?
Unit Questions • How can organisms successfully survive? • Why does some organisms do not live in the same environment?
Content Questions • What is biodiversity? • What is an organism? • What are the different kinds of organisms? • How can we classify organisms?
Standards Science students use their senses and tools to observe record and analyze data about the natural world. Scientifically literate young people can understand phenomena, solve problems and produce new output based on their observations.
Objectives 1. To be able to know what is biodiversity. 2. To identify the different kinds of organisms, its advantages and disadvantages. 3. To determine the importance of different kinds of organisms. 4. To know their classifications.
Unit Summary The students will learn and explore the different kinds of organisms, know the importance and its benefits around us and its uses in our daily lives. They will become biologists and publishers to develop their intellectual aspect and enhance their creativity base on their newsletter. They will conduct a study and elaborate their gathered data.
Calendar of Activities Week 1 Day 1-4 -Teacher will introduce Curriculum-Framing Question using Microsoft PowerPoint. Introduce the Lesson and start the discussion proper. Define what Biodiversity is and identify the different kinds of organisms. Introduce the content question (Determine the role and importance of Biodiversity and these organisms in our environment). Introduce unit question (How can organisms successfully survive? Why does some organisms do not live in the same environment?). Prior to that, Content Questions will be answered by the students through oral recitation). Day 5 Explain the Brochure Output and its criteria. After discussing the criteria, give them a task to start making their project plan. And remind them that on Monday next week, that they will have an Interactive Quiz about the Lesson.
Week 2 Day 1 The teacher will conduct the Interactive Quiz. Day 2 Let the students to group themselves into 5 and that will be their permanent group for the newsletter. After they group themselves, let them to have a brainstorming on their output and come up with a graphic organizer that sums up their ideas and plan for their project. Day 3-5 In these three days let the students collaborate and work their project. While the students are doing their project the teacher will room around to gauge or assess the students on their project. While rooming around the teacher will ask what are the problems and questions they want to clarify.
Week 3 Day 1-3 allow your students to visit places where they can see and explore different kinds of organisms. Let them record, gather and analyze data. Let them have an educational guess and prove on how organisms occur and survive in their environment Day 4-5 Let the students to organize the data that they had collected. While the students were working, you can ask them and observe to see their progress. For them to create the newsletter they were able to summarize and understand the data that has been collected. Remind the students that the final submission of the output is near to end.
Week 4 Day 1 the extension of doing the output and additional information can be done. While they were working on their project the teacher can start to check students learning. Day 2-4 The teacher should allow his/her students to have their reflections and journals based on what they had learned from the previous lesson. Teacher monitoring for the project. Showcase the project. Questioning to evaluate their output. Rubrics and Teacher’s evaluation about the students output of their newsletter as it is presented in the class. Day 5 At the end of the week the teacher will check the newsletter and collect the reflections and journals that made by his/her students.
Newsletter Rubric Name of the Students: _______________________________Date:________________