Monday, Nov. 14
Lesson objective: I will understand how to smooth “ruffled feathers”
Opener: Name all the parts of a contour feather.
Summary: What would happen to the flight of a bird if you clipped the feathers on one wing?
- Discuss birds’ origin
- Look at a variety of feathers
Lesson objective: I will learn about the skeletal structure that allows birds to fly.
Opener: The inner layer of breast muscle of a bird is the supracoracoideus muscle. its function is to _______ the wing.
Summary: Explain how a bird can sit on a branch and not rotate to the underside of a branch.
- Discuss birds’s anatomy, muscle system, digestive system, circulatory system, respiratory system, excretory system, nervous system.
Lesson objective: Today I will learn about how a wing can cause a bird to fly.
Opener: Explain how the shape of a wing and a Discus allow for great uplift.
Summary: How did the migration pattern end the existence of the passenger pigeon?
- Discuss:
- flight
- migration
- behaviors
- precocial and altricial birds (at birth)
Lesson objective: I will show that I have an understanding of birds.
Opener: I will be prepared to sit on the “hot seat”.
Summary: I will will re-read the arachnids so I will be a great listener and participant in tomorrows presentation.
- Exam over birds
- re-read the arachnids (pp. 471-475)
- Prepare a question that will reflect my understanding as well as my non-understanding about Arachnida.
- Assign ch. 30
Lesson objective: Be a great listener/learner for the presentations by the University Students.
Opener: I will be prepared to ask my question about Arachnids
Summary: I will reflect upon this presentation as to its potential to alter my career path.
- Presentation by the University Students about Arachnids.
Lesson objective: I will learn about the adaptations of mammals that set them apart from the other animals on our Earth.
Opener: Why are mammals called Mammals?
Summary: Explain what will happen to nonnucleated red blood cells.
- Discuss, Structural and Functional adaptations of Mammals.
- characteristics of Mammals
- Classification (focus on the orders)
Tuesday, Nov 22.
Lesson objective: I will learn about the behavior of mammals that set them apart from other animals.
Opener: Explain what embryonic diapause is.
Summary: Why does a cow lie down in the middle of the afternoon and flap their jaws together?
- video of Animal behavior
Lesson objective: At last! select topics for the great presentations
Opener: I have selected a topic that I am excited about and anxious to inform my fellow students about.
Summary: I know my order of presentation and understand the importance of dead-lines for the project.
- Hand out Project directions
- Select topic mammal
- Select order of presentation
- Computer lab
Lesson objective: Prepare my presentation in Computer lab
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- Computer lab
Lesson objective: Prepare my presentation in Computer lab
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- Computer lab
Lesson objective: Prepare my presentation in the classroom
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- Preparation for presentation
Lesson objective: Prepare my presentation in the classroom
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- Preparation for presentation
- Hand-in presentation study guides
Lesson objective: Prepare my presentation in the classroom
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- Preparation for presentation
- Hand in quiz questions and answers for final
Lesson objective: Be an active listener
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- Presentations, #1 and #2
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- Presentations, #3 and #4
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- Presentations, #5 and #6
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- Presentations, #7 and #8
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- Presentations #9 and #10
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- Presentations, #11 and #12
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- Presentations #13 and #14
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- Presentations # 15 and #16
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- Presentations, #17 and #18
Lesson objective: Be an active listener or complete study guides
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- makeup day for absent presenters
- opportunity to visit with presenters to complete study guide for final
Lesson objective: Show that I was an active listener and have prepared for my final
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Summary: I now have a great understanding of the Kingdom, Animal, the Class, mammalae, and many of the orders of this class.