Target Student Performance
Students ask and record specific questions about changes in matter and energy in response to the unit driving question: What happens when bread molds?
Resources You Provide
- Sticky notes (1 per student)
- Time Lapse Videos of Decomposition
Resources Provided
- 1.2 Expressing Ideas and Questions about Bread Molding PPT
- 1.2 Expressing Ideas and Questions Tool for Bread Molding
- 1.2 Expressing Ideas and Questions Tool for Bread Molding
- 1.2 Decomposers Storyline Reading: Learning from the Work of a Ph.D. in Forest Ecology
Resources Provided
- (Optional) Big Idea Probe: Leaf Pack Experiment (1 per student)
- (Optional) Assessing the Big Idea Probe: Leaf Pack Experiment
- Questions, Connections, Questions Student Reading Strategy
- Learning Tracking Tool for Decomposers
- Assessing the Learning Tracking Tool for Decomposers
Setup
Prepare your computer for showing the PPT as well as a time-lapse video of decomposition of various materials: http://www.plantpath.cornell.edu/PhotoLab/timelapse.html. Print one copy of the 1.2 Expressing Ideas and Questions Tool for Bread Molding, Big Idea Probe: Leaf Pack Experiment (optional), and 1.2 Decomposers Storyline Reading for each student.