My Work
The imagine IT project I intend to implement this year will be with my seventh grade life science class. This year, I'll begin with five sections of students and transition after the first semester to three sections.
This year, I will focus on how society and science affect one another. Within each unit, I hope to find a current society issue that can be influenced by science or has been caused by science. With my students it’s extremely important to tie science to their everyday lives. My intentions is to find issues on a scale of relationships to the students. For example, issues in our neighborhood, our city, and work our way up to world issues that we can influence.
The first unit of the year is centered around cells being the basis unit of living things. Students examine the structure and the function with specifically looking at the function of the cell membrane through the lens of the puzzling phenomena: How does holding her bladder and drinking a lot of water cause Jennifer Strange to die? Within this unit, my idea is for students to think about a cell as a society and how it functions and what influences certain actions. This will set the basis for the rest of our units and our imagine IT project. Some other ideas that can tie in with our current units are; food deserts when we discuss the digestive system, designer babies when learning about genetics, limited freshwater as we discuss natural resources, in learning about ecosystem relationships we'll look at how Asian Carp are an invasive species, and the effects of misusing land on bees.
In the beginning of each unit, I’d like to begin with students brainstorming their ideas of issues of society that can relate to the science content they’re learning. From there, I’d provide students with resources to conduct research and examine primary and secondary resources.I think it would be ideal to have students write blogs about the research they’re doing in regards to each topic. This allows their work to be public to a greater audience and contribute to society and the scientific community. As a culminating product from each unit, I think providing students with the opportunity to create posters like scientists do would be a great way to inform the other students within our school.
This year, I will focus on how society and science affect one another. Within each unit, I hope to find a current society issue that can be influenced by science or has been caused by science. With my students it’s extremely important to tie science to their everyday lives. My intentions is to find issues on a scale of relationships to the students. For example, issues in our neighborhood, our city, and work our way up to world issues that we can influence.
The first unit of the year is centered around cells being the basis unit of living things. Students examine the structure and the function with specifically looking at the function of the cell membrane through the lens of the puzzling phenomena: How does holding her bladder and drinking a lot of water cause Jennifer Strange to die? Within this unit, my idea is for students to think about a cell as a society and how it functions and what influences certain actions. This will set the basis for the rest of our units and our imagine IT project. Some other ideas that can tie in with our current units are; food deserts when we discuss the digestive system, designer babies when learning about genetics, limited freshwater as we discuss natural resources, in learning about ecosystem relationships we'll look at how Asian Carp are an invasive species, and the effects of misusing land on bees.
In the beginning of each unit, I’d like to begin with students brainstorming their ideas of issues of society that can relate to the science content they’re learning. From there, I’d provide students with resources to conduct research and examine primary and secondary resources.I think it would be ideal to have students write blogs about the research they’re doing in regards to each topic. This allows their work to be public to a greater audience and contribute to society and the scientific community. As a culminating product from each unit, I think providing students with the opportunity to create posters like scientists do would be a great way to inform the other students within our school.