Build UP Grades 6 and 7

 

Build UP Your Life Sciences for Grades 6 &7 Program

Workshop description

Each participant will receive an orientation to two use-it-tomorrow projects:
Invertebrate Adaptations (gr. 6) and Food Webs in Ecosystems (gr.7) both of which address grade-specific Life Science PLO’s. During the workshop we will show examples of scaffolding, differentiation, critical thinking & ongoing assessment to make the science project/research process both engaging and manageable for teachers and their students.

Workshop handouts

wkshop_handout_67projectoverviews.doc wkshop_handout_participants.doc

Here are links to the teacher’s resource and all student handouts for the Grade 6 and 7 projects. I have uploaded the resource in sections.

Grade Six Project: Invertebrate Adaptations

Preface: Project Overview

Part A: Detailed Lesson Plans

Part B: Teacher resources for demonstration lessons* (These are scanned pdf’s… sorry, they’re upsidedown :(… but you can print them off and turn them around 🙂 )

Part C: Blackline Masters (BLMs)

Part D: Critical Thinking Task Resources

bklt_preface.doc
bklt_SecA.doc
Contact Ray.Myrtle@gmail.com to get more Teacher Demo Resources – Ask for Adaptations Section B-

bklt_SecC.doc

bklt_SecD.doc

Grade Seven Project: Food Webs/Ecosystems

Background information: I have also posted a food web article and a food web poster project in the Grade 7 Life Science link on the Science wiki. These tasks provide a basic introduction to some of the basic concepts explored in the Food Web Project.

Preface: Project Overview

Part A: Detailed Lesson Plans

Part B: Teacher resources for demonstration lessons* (These are scanned pdf’s… sorry, they are upside down- but you can print them off and turn them right side up 🙂 )

Part C: Student Handouts (Blackline Masters/BLMs)

Part D: Critical Thinking Task Resources

research_foodwebbklt_SecA.doc

research_foodwebbklt_preface1.doc

Contact Ray.Myrtle@gmail.com ask for Ecosystems- Teacher Demo Resources -Section B

research_foodwebbklt_SecC.doc

research_foodwebbklt_SecD.doc

 

LIFE SCIENCE (GR. 7) Ecosystems

Gr. 7 Science Ecosystems- Fall 2011.

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Relevant links on this wiki:

Planning page with lists of learning outcomes etc, go to: http://bit.ly/Gr4-7Plan

Link to: **Start UP! Science Mold unit.**.. if you are an early career teacher you might start up with this short unit.

Here is Anne Maclean’s Food Web and Adaptations units. They were created for the Build UP program (the second part of the Start UP! Program- which provide more grade/topic specific units later in the year).
I think they are a great place to begin building a unit.
Here’s the link to the unit:
Build UP! Unit for Gr. 6/7 Science– Food Webs and Adaptations