Weekly Lesson Plans

Essential Question: How do we understand and explain the world around us?
Agenda:
1. FCAT Word Slam: Scientific Method
2. Review drivers and preventers to learning from yesterday.
3. 1.2 read and complete framing routine as a group
Assessment, how we will know we have learned it: Misconception meltdown: astrology, 3-2-1 Blastoff: 1 example of pseudoscience, 2 examples of true sciences, 3 of the processes of the scientific method.
Sunshine State Standards:
• SC.912.N.2.1: Identify what is science, what clearly is not science, and what superficially resembles science (but fails to meet the criteria for science).
• SC.912.N.2.2: Identify which questions can be answered through science and which questions are outside the boundaries of scientific investigation, such as questions addressed by other ways of knowing, such as art, philosophy, and religion.
• SC.912.N.2.3: Identify examples of pseudoscience (such as astrology, phrenology) in society.
What we're going to learn: What does the process of science look like.
How we will learn it:
• Explicit Instruction: Introduction to science as a process, and the scientific method.
• Modeled Instruction: Lead students through the FCAT Slam > Introduction to Framing Routine > Begin framing routine for 1.2 if time allows.
• Guided Practice: Students complete Framing Routine 1.2 in small groups.
How we will use it: A more logical and reliable look at the world and begin the development of a healthy skepticism regarding claims posed as scientific.
Materials/Resources: Overhead projector, FCAT Slam worksheet, Framing Routine worksheets, Textbooks, Paper, Pencil