1. IT’S ALIVE!!

2. or is it??? Are viruses alive ? –How can you tell if something is alive? –What would your evidence be or look like?

3. Brainstorming So, how do you know if something is alive ? What evidence would you look for?

4. Background Research Paired reading Pages 121 -127 in text book Make list of 6 key characteristics of living things that you were able to infer from the reading.

5. Now What? What do scientists (like you) do when they do NOT have enough information (evidence, data, knowledge) to answer the question of interest?

6. Collect more data!!!!! Do more research (textbook and internet). Design and conduct experiments to help answer the question of interest. Discussions and communications with other scientists studying similar questions.

7. Enough data?? Now scientific knowledge must be published (communicated) for other scientists to analyze or test. Scientific information is public! How do you do that for this assignment?

8. POSTER!!!!!! Create a “MOVIE POSTER”

9. Criteria Which is: –Creative and eyecatching. –Clearly demonstrates your position on whether viruses are alive or not. –Shows artwork relevant to the topic –Clearly describes the evidence (minimum of 3 pieces of evidence) on which you based your position

10. References Recorded (format) just like for any research paper Two from textbooks Two from Internet sources These are minimum, may have more List references on back of poster

11. Reflection Answer the essay question(s) relating to this project.