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Activity 3.3 - Evidence-Based Arguments about Mealworms Eating (50 min)
Target Student Performance
Students (a) use data from their investigations to develop evidence-based arguments about how matter moves and changes and how energy changes when mealworms eat, move, and grow, and (b) identify unanswered questions about matter movement and matter change that the data are insufficient to address.
Resources You Provide
- (From previous lesson) 3.2 Mealworms Investigation Class Results 11 x 17 Poster (or Spreadsheet)
- (From previous lesson) 3.2 Observing Mealworms Eating Worksheet
Resources Provided
- 3.3 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Mealworms Eating (1 per student)
- 3.3 Assessing the Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Mealworms Eating
- 3.3 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Mealworms Eating PPT
Recurring Resources
- Learning Tracking Tool for Animals
- Assessing the Learning Tracking Tool for Animals
- Three Questions Handout (Color Version)
- Three Questions Handout (BW Version)
Setup
Print one copy of 3.3 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Mealworms Eating for each student. Make sure that the 3.2 Mealworms Investigation Class Results 11 x 17 Poster (or 3.2 Mealworms Investigation Class Results Spreadsheet) from the previous activity is available. Prepare a computer with an overhead projector to display the 3.3 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Mealworms Eating PPT.
Assessment
During the class discussion, listen for students making connections to the investigation and their arguments. Are they drawing on observations from the investigation, or from other sources of knowledge and experience? Use the 3.3 Assessing the Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Mealworms Eating to assess your students’ thinking at this point in the unit. At this point they have concluded their “up the triangle” inquiry journey, and are headed “down the triangle” for the application sequence.
Tips
Have the students store their 3.3 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Mealworms Eating in the same place as their Expressing Ideas and Questions and Predictions and Planning Tools so they can be easily revisited.