Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Tuesday/Wednesday, 25/26 November, 2014

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How is Ebola Spread?

NGSSS: SC.912.N.1.1

BENCHMARKS:
-Define a problem based on a specific body of knowledge.



LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  Students will be able to:
-read an article and watch a video to find evidence that supports a claim.
-complete a claim, evidence, and reasoning exercise based on two sources of information.



BELL RINGER: Read the first paragraph of the article. Write the question the article addresses.

VOCABULARY: virus, virology, DNA, RNA, airborne

HOME LEARNING: work on your science fair paper/project.

Students completed the claim, evidence, reasoning handout based on the article and the video (see below). Four of the pieces of evidence should come from the article, and two pieces of evidence should come from the video. Be sure to interpret what the evidence means to you, using phrases such as: I think this means, or, this demonstrated to me that... You can find the article and the CER handout pages below the video link.









These are the handouts for the video and article. Read the article. Watch the video. Complete the entire Scientific Reasoning Chart based on the article and the video. Use 4 facts from the article and 2 facts from the video.