RISE Life Science Institute CSU Stanislaus June 25-June 30, 2012

Week at a Glance Monday June 25 Tuesday June 26 Wednesday June 27 Thursday June 28 Friday June 29 Saturday June 30

Monday, June 25 Big Idea(s) Covered: Different scales of energy flux The scientific process Content Scale Scientific Process Energy Flow Activities, Goals, Objectives *Pre-test *Red dot/Green dot vocabulary and concepts for the week (Jackie/Suzette) *Powers of 10 video/scale activity (Christina) *Interactive timeline focusing on when life started on earth (Marina) *Observation Walk – Living Vs Non-Living things (Marina/Michael) *Pedagogical experiment paper (possibly homework depending on time) (Marina)

Tuesday, June 26 Big Idea(s) Covered: How does energy flow through an ecosystem? Living things and their environments influence each other. Content *Biomes & Ecosystems *Habitats and microhabitats *Tropic energy flow Activities, Goals, Objectives *Biome puzzle (Engaging Scenario) (Jackie/Suzette) *Energy Flow Popcorn SGI lesson (Amber) *Jigsaw reading (Marina) *Satellite mapping activity (Michael) *Kelp forest activity –how do physical & biological factors affect ecosystems and organism (Michael/Marina) *Focusing Questions on campus (Michael/Marina)

Wednesday, June 27 Big Idea(s) Covered: How does energy move through the population? Content *Variation between individuals in a population. *Environments shape the adaptations of a population Activities, Goals, Objectives *Guess my Category (Jackie/Suzette) –get bird realia from Marina, Christina has pictures *Mix and Match (Jackie/Suzette) *Beak Activity (Christina) *Stomata Activity (Michael) *Population Modeling (Marina) *Natural History Project Outdoor Data collection (Marina)

Thursday, June 28 Big Idea(s) Covered: How does energy move through the individual? Content *Cardiovascular system *Digestive system *How are systems connected to each other Activities, Goals, Objectives *Big Book on Anatomy in Layers (Jackie/Suzette/Christina) *Pictorial Input – Anatomy of Daphnia (Christina) *Heart rate of Daphnia SGI (Christina) *Snake Feeding (Marina) *Strip Book- comparing snakes to humans (Jackie/Suzette) *Natural History Project Outside collecting data of focus organism (Marina)

Friday, June 29 Big Idea(s) Covered: How does energy move through the cell? Content *Photosynthesis *Conservation of mass *Organic Molecules – plants get their carbon from CO2 from air Activities, Goals, Objectives *Outside observations of Natural History Project – first thing in am (Marina) *Comparative Input – humans VS. plants – How do these organisms use energy? (Jackie/Suzette/Marina) Marina will develop probing questions. *Hole Punched Photosynthesis (Amber/Christina)

Saturday, June 30 Big Idea(s) Covered: Natural History Presentations Review Content Activities, Goals, Objectives *Natural History Presentations *Graffiti Wall for Review for Post test

Next Steps *Work on individual contributions to institute. *Development of pre/post test Action Items *All content providers should send key vocabulary/concepts to Jackie and Suzette for Red Dot/Green Dot activity *Amber/Jackie/Suzette need to color code for popcorn lab and trophic levels *Marina will send Christina a list of available realia for bird activity *Marina will develop probing questions for comparing humans and plants *Decide what kind of artifact we are producing for Natural History Project *Marina and Michael will develop the pre/post test Timelines *All supply orders into Paul by May 1 *RISE Follow Up meeting May 29