Exploring Our Fluid Earth

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We had a really good time!!! We used both the frozen fish and the rubber fish. I will definitely do this again!

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This was a good exercise and we used transitive knowledge as the overarching mode to relate it to Language Arts and previous knowledge with Math/Science.

I'm looking forward to this lesson and seeing how my students are engaged in it.

This was a great lesson. Although the concepts were new to the students they were engaged in the note taking and activities of this lesson.

My students really enjoyed the activity. I found a couple of videos to help reinforce or introduce the concept of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. If your school has a BrainPOP subscription, just search for "Antibiotic Resistance". If your school does not have a BrainPOP subscription, there's a cute (but a little slow-moving) video at this link: http://vimeo.com/15175424.

This helped me out of the hole I created earlier in the year. Evolution attempt #1 = epic fail. Microevolution attempt #2 = epically successful.

Overall, I was very proud of my 5th graders and their effort during this lesson. For several of them, the content was a bit much. They grasped the terminology fairly well, but did not have some of the prior knowledge needed to apply them to the statements in the lesson. They worked hard, though, and got a good start on using Scientific Language.

Getting this one completed today!

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The "Phases of Inquiry" lesson is ancient history at this point, so I adapted some of the Mod 0 TSI materials for a Modes-of-Inquiry-Based reflection of a multi-day introduction to microscopes that we did recently. The kids we really happy to be working with the microscopes so much I was able to sneak some good stuff (e.g. inversely-proportional relationship between mag. and FOV.) I've attached the TSI-formatted lesson plan, as well as a copy of worksheet I'll be using.

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I created a week-long Unit using the Fish activities and a Taxonomy chapter in the science textbook. I will attach the pictures of Fish printing separately.

I like this activity set and plan to use it twice in the year. Once at he beginning to set the tone in the class "Science Rules" and mid way through the year as way to refresh minds before the topic of Evolution.