Using the Curriculum
To begin, click on the lesson plan and follow the mapped out plan. It is always recommended that you preview the content at least one day in advance to familiarize yourself with the content and have all of the necessary materials prepared.
All of the documents referenced in the lesson plan are listed below.
Lesson # 2 – Laboratory Equipment and Mealworm Lab
- Number of 50 minute Class: Periods-6-8
- Level of Preparation: 15-20 minutes
- This involves finding 24 pieces of lab equipment in you room and numbering them.
- You could opt for the alternative handout which includes pictures of the equipment for students to cut out.
Lesson Plan Document and Daily Agenda
- LESSON PLAN: Experimental Design Lesson Plan 2 (pdf)
- DAILY AGENDA:Lesson 2- Daily Agenda for Students USBT (PDF)
Bell ringers/ Warm Up/ Opening Activities
- Laboratory Safety Bell Ringer -PDF (DOC)
- Experimental Procedural Analysis (PDF)
- Experimental Design Scenarios USBT (PDF)
Presentations
Class Activities/Worksheets
- Laboratory Equipment Identification Doc (PDF)
- Laboratory Equipment Identification Alternate USBT-DOC (no equipment needed)
- Laboratory Equipment Identification Alternate USBT-PDF (no equipment needed)
- Mealworm Inquiry Lab-USBT (PDF)
- Rubric and Lab Guide –> Rubric and Lab Guide PDF
Closing Activities
- See Lesson notes
Assessment(s)
Online Teaching Resources
Online Learning Resources- The following resources are what I have found to be most useful when conducting online instruction. Each website gives you a report of the student’s score and automatically grades the assignments for you. You must create an account for each. These activities are supplemental and are not written into the lesson plans.
Socrative.com– Socrative allow users to create quizzes, play a space race game or do quick exit quizzes/polls. You can create a free account and copy the quizzes that have already been made.
Quiz Link: Lab Equipment Quiz-5 Questions
Quizizz.Com-Teachers can access premade quizzes or make their own using the question banks and their own questions. You can customize how many times students can take the quiz, how long it lasts and what types of feedback they get. We have linked quizzes that align with each unit.
Quiz Link: Biology Lab Equipment- 16 Questions
Edpuzzle.com-This website allows teachers to use videos and integrates questions within the videos that students must answer to move on. The best part is that there are already tons of video done by other teachers with the question check points already integrated.
Video link: Lab Safety Video
Extras
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