Biology - EC: BIO.B.3.3.1
Biology - EC: BIO.B.3.3.1
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- It is believed that if you spend more time in the sun, you will be healthier. This is an example of what part of a scientific experiment?
- A scientist uses a ruler to measure the length of a stem. Why would scientist need to do this?
- While studying live earthworms a student wrote down these notes in her lab:
- Long and skinny
- Slimy and gross
- Would burrow deep into soil
Explain what each of these notes represents in an experiment.
- Some people believe that evolution isn’t a law but is actually a theory. Describe the evidence that scientists have of evolution and what they are missing.
- Scientific studies have indicated that there is a higher chance of allergies in babies that have been fed cow’s milk than in breast-fed babies. What is an inference made from these studies?
Answer Key/Rubric
- Hypothesis
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- To get a proper measurement
- To get a more accurate observation.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- Long and skinny - observation
- Slimy and gross - opinion
- Would burrow deep into soil - inference
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- Scientists have fossil evidence of organisms from long ago but have difficulty showing evolution happening currently because it takes a long time and many generations.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- Drinking breast milk prevents allergies.
- Drinking cows milk causes allergies.
- Breast-fed babies are healthier
