Target Student Performance
Students explain how matter moves and changes and how energy changes during biosynthesis in a mushroom’s cells.
Resources You Provide
- (from previous activity) 3.3 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Bread Molding
Resources Provided
- 5.3 Explaining How Fungi Grow: Biosynthesis PPT
- 5.4 Explanations Tool for Fungi Biosynthesis
- 5.4 Grading the Explanations Tool for Fungi Biosynthesis
- Optional) 5.4 How do Decomposers Grow? Reading (1 per student)
Recurring Resources
- Three Questions 11x17 Poster
- Three Questions Handout (Color Version)
- Three Questions Handout (BW Version)
- Digestion and Biosynthesis of Carbohydrates 11 x 17 Poster (1 per class)
- Digestion and Biosynthesis of Protein 11 x 17 Poster (1 per class)
- Digestion and Biosynthesis of Fat 11 x 17 Poster (1 per class)
- Metabolic Pathways 11 x 17 Poster (1 per class)
- Questions, Connections, Questions Student Reading Strategy
- Decomposers Matter Tracing Tool
- Assessing the Decomposers Matter Tracing Tool
- (Optional) Example Decomposers Explanations Handout (1 per student or per group)
- (Optional) Big Idea Probe: Leaf Pack Experiment (1 per student)
- (Optional) Assessing the Big Idea Probe: Leaf Pack Experiment
- Learning Tracking Tool for Decomposers
- Assessing the Learning Tracking Tool for Decomposers
Setup
Print one copy of the 5.4 Explanations Tool for Fungi Biosynthesis, and the 5.4 How do Decomposers Grow? Reading (if you are using it) for each student. Prepare a computer and a projector to display the PPT. Print and hang the Digestion and Biosynthesis 11 x 17 Posters. 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.