Target Student Performance
Students explain how matter moves and changes and how energy changes during cellular respiration in a cow’s cells (connecting macroscopic observations with atomic-molecular models and using the principles of conservation of matter and energy).
Resources You Provide
- (from previous lesson) 3.3 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Mealworms Eating
Resources Provided
- 4.2 Explanations Tool for Cow Cellular Respiration
- 4.2 Grading the Explanations Tool for Cow Cellular Respiration (1 per student)
- 4.2 Explaining How Cows Move and Function: Cellular Respiration PPT
- 4.2 How do Animals Get the Energy They Need to Move? Reading (1 per student)
Recurring Resources
- Learning Tracking Tool for Animals
- Assessing the Learning Tracking Tool for Animals
- Animals Matter Tracing Tool (1 per class)
- Assessing the Animals Matter Tracing Tool
- (Optional) Example Animal Explanations Handout (1 per student or per group)
- Cow 11 x 17 Poster (1 per class)
- Questions, Connections, Questions Student Reading Strategy
- Three Questions 11x17 Poster (1 per class)
- Three Questions Handout (Color Version)
- Three Questions Handout (BW Version)
Setup
Print one copy of the 4.2 Explanations Tool for Cow Cellular Respiration for each student. Return students’ completed versions of the 3.3 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Mealworms Eating for review. In this activity, your students will need to use the Three Questions Explanation Checklist on the back of the Three Questions Handout. Be sure to have this available to students, and see the notes in the Modifications at the end of the Activity for ideas about how to use it.