Biology COE

Unit 1 – Inquiry, Field Studies, Application

First 3 Days

C – celebrating successH – honoring diversity

S- serving others

9/3/14

• Welcome to Biology COE! • Introductions –

– Who I am…– Share your name – pronunciation and name you

prefer to be called– Best BRIEF Summer Memory

• Name Cards• Setting Goals

Ms. Maring

FRONT OF CARD – no lines

FIRST AND LAST NAMEPeriod #

BACK OF CARD - lines• What do you love about science? • What scares you in science?• What grade do you hope to achieve? • Name one of your strengths• Name one of your challenges• If you could have a superpower, what would it be? • Please use complete sentences!• Finished early? Quietly share with your neighbor…

Setting Goals

• Divide a piece of paper into 3 columns. • GOAL: At the top of each column, describe a

goal you have for this class. • STRENGTHS: Describe your path to past

successes. What helped you achieve? • BLOCKS: Describe some things that have kept

you from being successful in the past.• STEPS to SUCCESS: Describe steps you will take

this year to achieve your goal, using your strengths to overcome the obstacles.

9/4/14

• Honoring Diversity – please take out your goals sheet.• While I take attendance, quietly share with your

neighbor one entire column from your sheet. • If you dare,

ask them to help you be accountable for your goal and action plan!

• Volunteers to share out.• NAME ON TOP…PASS TO THE AISLE<->

Cultivating success…honoring diversity

Syllabus and Expectations

• Review Syllabus• Room Tour – including safety features• Classroom Expectations• Developing Classroom norms

About the class…

• When students do not pass the Biology EOC 2x, they are enrolled in a Biology COLLECTION OF EVIDENCE class to meet the BIOLOGY graduation requirement.

• YOUR GOAL: complete the collection of evidence (so that you graduate!)

• YOUR GRADE: will be determined by your performance on in-class activities AND your effort towards passing the COE on the computers.

What will we be doing?

• Entry and Exit Tasks• Taking NOTES in notebooks• Watching videos to learn content• Activities – mini-labs or worksheets• Pop-Quizzes – completed online• TASKS on laptops to prove your learning and

complete COE (so that you can graduate!)

Class Community

• What is a community? What would it mean and look like for this class to be a learning community?

• Generate 3-5 goals for our class with the person sitting next to you.

• Share your list with the other table in your row. Pick your top 3. Designate someone to share with the class.

• I’ll type them out for each class…

Learning Community – Per 4• In a learning community, everyone helps each other to learn so

that we can all graduate. 1. Being supportive and helping each other when you notice

someone struggling. 2. PASS COE = GRADUATE!3. Turn in every assignment, hopefully on time but always turned

in. 4. No distractions, everyone on same page. 5. No one left behind! 6. BE RESPECTFUL OF ALL STUDENTS - Feeling safe – everyone

should feel comfortable asking their questions….7. Feeling frustrated? Visualize yourself walking across that stage!

9/5/14

• While I take attendance, make sure you know the names of everyone in your row and…

• Think of one person in this classroom who has interacted positively with you since school started.

• “Say Something Nice”• Finish writing “pep talk” to yourself based on your

past Biology EOC results…• Try out the laptops and complete “Training Form”• REMINDER: SIGNED SYLLABUS and ALL

MATERIALS due MONDAY, SEPT 8th!

Analyzing results – 400 is passing!• On your test scores sheet, notice I’ve highlighted your “EOC

SCIENCE BIO” Levels and Scores• Subtract your lowest from your highest. How much did you

improve your score? Did anyone see a drop in your score? • Take your highest score and subtract it from 400. • If you were to take it again, how many more points would

you need to pass? • REFLECTION: Think about how close you came to passing

the EOC. Considering this success, write yourself a “pep talk” about being able to pass the COE.

Daily Entry and Exit Tasks– to learn and assess your progress towards standards:

• Enter quietly, gather your supplies, and be seated before the bell rings.

• Answer the question(s) from the board on your Entry Task Sheet. You may help each other with the entry task. We will discuss and you should copy answers you did not have.

• Last 5 minutes for exit task. You may not help each other or ask me. This is to assess how well you understood the material of the day.

• You will “trade and grade” during Exit Task most Fridays. The grader’s signature verifies they graded honestly!

• Entry task and exit task are worth 20 points per week.• Turn in your entry/exit task answer sheet on FRIDAY each week. • If absent, look on my website to complete these tasks.

9/8/14

• Entry Task

• Consider the “Biology COE – • Scoring Rubric for Procedure” sheet. • What 7 things would a good procedure include?

• Turn in your syllabus.• Have your materials out: binder with dividers and

comp book

Today’s Agenda

• Q/A – You will get an ELECTIVE CREDIT for passing the class. (credit for class is separate from passing the COE – you could pass one and not the other!)

• Q/A – Yes, part of your strategy will be to try to pass the EOC again – end of January.

• Set-up Comp Books

Set Up – stuff you will need• Notebook• Pens or pencils for writing

(no sharpies or gel pens)• Glue sticks and/or tape*• Colored pencils (no

markers)*• Scissors*• Sticky notes** We have these items in

class

Front Cover

• Only this information will be on the notebook’s front cover

• Your Name• COE Biology• Period_____

Contents page:

Table of Contents 1Date Topic Page

More Contents Pages

TOC 2 TOC 3Date Topic Page Date Topic Page

Page Numbers• In the corners after the Table of Contents,

start numbering the pages: 1 2

• Keep numbering until you reach 20

1 2Left Side • Student’s Side• Write reflections• Questions you

still have• Diagrams, Data &

Graphs• Drawings or ideas

about this topic

Right Side • Teachers’ side • Title and Date• Lecture/C-notes• Textbook notes• Procedures• Information

Glossary

• Start with the last page and count back 13 full pages (26 sides!)

Glossary

Glossary A

GlossaryB C

Keep going until you write Z

Practice

• Open your glossary to the “C” page• Add this term to your glossary – Controlled

Experiment (Investigation)• Be sure to include the definition and either a

sentence using it or a picture to help you remember it– Controlled Experiment (Investigation)–

Storage

• You may either keep the notebook with you or leave it in the cupboard for your class period

• If you take it home – don’t forget to bring back every day

• If you forget your notebook, please get a C-Notes paper (in the rack) before class starts and transfer or tape the notes into you notebook.

• If you store your notebook here, please respect other students’ property by leaving the other notebooks alone!

If you are absent…• Class notes and activities are posted on Ms.

M’s teacher page• BE RESPONSIBLE and add the information to

your notebook.

Exit Task Instructions• Last 5 minutes for exit task. You may not help

each other or ask me. This is to assess how well you understood the material of the day.

• When you have an answer written down, raise your hand and I will come stamp your paper.

• OUR FIRST EXIT TASK is very low stakes – you cannot get it wrong unless you refuse to do it

• All the rest will be based on the standards you will be meeting this year

9/8/14

• Exit Task

• Look at the green sheet “Designing an Investigation.”• Write a definition for independent/manipulated

variable. • Write a definition for dependent/responding variable. • HOMEWORK – add to your GLOSSARY:

– Manipulated variable– Responding Variable– Controlled Variables

9/9/14

• Entry Task

• Give the manipulated (independent) and responding (dependent) variables for the following question:

• QUESTION: What is the effect of flower color on the number of butterflies attracted to the flower?

Today’s Agenda

• Notes on Controlled Investigations and Field Studies

• Check out Textbooks

• Write a new procedure

Unit 1 – Inquiry and Application

• Inquiry Skills – help scientists answer questions– Controlled Investigations (aka Science Labs)– Field Studies (Outdoor investigations)

• Application Skills – a problem solving process. – Also called ENGINEERING design process…

Types of investigations (INQUIRY)• Controlled experiments

– A lab investigation in which the values of all variables are kept the same except for one that is changed (manipulated variable) and one that is measured (responding variable).

– Have an experimental control condition – run the procedure without changing the manipulated variable. (if measuring effect of fertilizer on plant growth, use 0 g of fertilizer on different plants)

– Include at least 3 levels, called conditions, of manipulated variable (if measuring effect of fertilizer on plant growth, use 10 g, 20 g and 30 g of fertilizer on different plants)

– Include at least 3 trials for each condition – Includes extra validity measure (if measuring effect of fertilizer on

plant growth, use more controls: same light, location, temperature, fertilizer; greater range of conditions (10g, 20g, 30g, 40g))

Types of investigations (INQUIRY)

• Field study– A scientific study of free-living plants or animals in which

the subjects are observed in their natural habitat without changing, harming, or altering the setting or subjects- Think OUTSIDE not in the lab

– Data will be samples or observations– Records environmental conditions at time of observation– Samples/Observations are repeated

HOMEWORK – due Thursday 9/11/14Watch Video….Take Google Form Quiz

• VIDEO - Controlled Experiments• What made Mike and Molly’s first experiment unfair?• What was the independent/manipulated variable in the

second experiment?• What variables were kept the same (controlled) in each

group in the second experiment?• What was the dependent variable (variable that was

affected by the independent variable)?• QUIZ• Or https://

docs.google.com/a/students.osd.wednet.edu/forms/d/1TLoQBQxiG7y6jAHpYH6eK964aK5WcKT-0-O5rAIcHUo/viewform?usp=send_form

Write a procedure…due Friday 9/12/14

• Be sure your procedure includes:– Logical steps to do the experiment– Two controlled (kept the same) variables– One manipulated (independent) variable– One responding (dependent) variable– How often measurements should be taken and

recorded• Question: What is the effect of flower color on the

number of butterflies attracted to the flower?

9/9/14

• Exit Task

• Give the manipulated (independent) and responding (dependent) variables for the following question:

• QUESTION: What is the effect of background noise on the amount of prey bats catch?

9/10/14

• Entry Task

• What does reliable mean in a controlled investigation?

• What does valid mean? • What is the difference?• Can you think of a way to increase reliability?

Validity?• ADD reliable and valid to your glossary

Today’s Agenda

• Notes on Reliability and Validity• Worksheet Activity to practice

Reliability vs. ValidityReliable means you will get the same results

repeatedly. (remember “R” for Reliability and Repeated)

Valid means accurate or “on target.” The measurement taken matches the actual amount.

• Reliability – – Increased with more trials

• Validity – – Increased by:

• Adding more controlled variables• Improving measuring technique• Including more conditions

How to increase reliability and validity…

• Reliability – – Increased with more trials

• Validity – – Increased by:

• Adding more controlled variables• Improving measuring technique• Including more conditions and an experimental control

condition.

These targets show one way to interpret reliability vs. validity.

Draw/label them under your notes!

Another Example…Someone who is 150 pounds gets on a scale five times. If the scale reads “100,” “125,” “150,” “175” and “200”:

it is not reliable - numbers are not consistent

If the scale reads “100” each of the five times:it is reliable, but not valid - numbers are consistent, but not accurate

If the scale reads “150” each of the five times:it is reliable AND valid - numbers are consistent AND accurate

9/10/14

• Exit Task

• Using a digital thermometer, a fish tank’s temperature is measured at 72 degrees. Next using a glass thermometer, the same fish tank’s temperature is measured at 65 degrees.

• Can you tell which measurement is valid? Why or why not?

9/11/14

• Entry Task

• Students investigated whether time of day had an effect on number of foraging insects on salmonberry plants. At 8 am they counted and recorded insects for 30 minutes on Plant A. At 5 pm they counted and recorded insects for 50 minutes on Plant B.

• Evaluate their investigation in terms of validity.– Is it valid, yes or no? Give TWO reasons!

Today’s Agenda

• Finish Reliable vs Valid Worksheet• Work time to complete Procedure. We will be

grading them tomorrow!• Notes on conclusions.

USE RADDS to write conclusions

• R – restate the question and…• A – answer the question conclusively! Explain the

effect of the MV on the RV. • DHIGH – write out the highest results from the data

table and say which RV condition caused it.• DLOW – write out the lowest results from the data

table and say which RV condition caused it.• S – give a scientific explanation for the trend in the

data.

9/11/14

• Exit Task

• Students investigated whether time of day had an effect on number of foraging insects on salmonberry plants. At 8 am they counted and recorded insects for 30 minutes on Plant A. At 5 pm they counted and recorded insects for 50 minutes on Plant B.

• Evaluate their investigation in terms of reliability. • Is it reliable, yes or no? Give TWO reasons!

9/12/14

• Entry Task

• Say Something Nice

• Trade and Grade PROCEDURES

Today’s Agenda

• HEADS UP: First TASK TIME on laptops will be Monday. PLEASE BE HERE!!

• Practice writing conclusions.• Look at the “Temperature of Water vs

Surviving Giardia Cysts” data table. • Write a conclusion using RADDS – you may

consult your notes for this practice.

• Temperature of Water vs Surviving Giardia Cysts

Write a conclusion…due Friday 9/15/14

HOMEWORK – due Monday 9/15/14Watch Video….Take Google Form Quiz

VIDEO - Mr. Smith on WA State Biology EOC Prompt Writing Conclusions

QUIZ

New Procedures

• Mr. Smith on WA State Biology EOC Prompt Writing New Procedures

9/12/14