Activity Description of "Zoophyla"
| Title | Zoophyla |
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| Audience | Grades 9-12, Biology, Advanced Biology |
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| Abstract | Oh, how to teach the end of the year when you have everything else (the whole animal kingdom) to cover and everyone is tired of listening to you? I have devised an animal phyla symposium/presentation where my students teach each other the various phyla. We have PowerPoint software and a digital camera available in our science tech lab and I have incorporated the use of this for their presentations. You can simply edit the file and change it to whatever meets your needs. I have also included a grading rubric.
I also do a dichotomous key animal ID lab between all these presentations, which helps the hands-on learners. It can be done either through keying and identifying specimens and writing their characteristics, or by more of an inquiry -problematic approach. In this students group similar specimens together, investigate words to describe the characteristics they share, and create their own dichotomous key. Enjoy :-) Rosie |
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| Author | Rosie McKinney |
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| Email | rmckinne@ix.netcom.com |
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| Unifying Concept | Systems, order and organization |
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| Science and Technology | Understandings about science and technology |
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| Science as Inquiry | Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry |
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| History and Nature of Science | Nature of scientific knowledge |
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| Science in Personal and Social Perspectives | Natural resources |
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| Life, Physical, Earth Sciences | Biological evolution, Structure and function in living systems, Diversity and adaptations of organisms |
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| Other Standards | Assessment |
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rmckinne@ix.netcom.com
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