Target Student Performance
Students develop hypotheses about how matter moves and changes and how energy changes when mealworms eat, move, and grow and make predictions about how they can use their investigation tools—digital balances and BTB—to detect movements and changes in matter.
ResourcesYou Provide
- (From previous lesson) Students’ ideas and questions they shared in Activity 1.2 Expressing Ideas about How Animals Grow
- (From previous lesson) 1.2 Expressing Ideas Tool for Animals Growing
Resources Provided
- 3.1 Predictions and Planning about Mealworms Eating PPT
- 3.1 Predictions and Planning Tool for Mealworms Eating (1 per student)
- 3.1 Assessing the Predictions and Planning Tool for Mealworms Eating(1 per class)
- Mealworms Eating Video
Recurring Resources
- Three Questions 11 x 17 Poster (1 per class)
- Three Questions Handout (Color Version) (1 per student)
- Three Questions Handout (BW Version) (1 per student)
- (Optional) BTB Color Handout
- (Optional) Investigation Planning Tool
Setup
Print one copy of 3.1 Predictions and Planning Tool for Mealworms Eating for each student. Prepare a computer and projector to display the 3.1 Predictions and Planning about Mealworms Eating PPT and the video. Print one copy of the Three Questions 11 x 17 Poster and display it on your classroom wall. Print one copy of the Three Questions Handout for each student. Retrieve the materials from Activity 1.2. This may include a PPT slide from the lesson in which you typed students’ responses or a photograph of their sticky notes as well as the students’ completed 1.2 Expressing Ideas and Questions Tool for Animals Growing.