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Week 7 – ED3221

Today, we will be exploring the following:
 * Assessment in science
 * Biological sciences- flowering plants and food chains

Revise Week 5- Biological sciences (living things and classification) and  Science and Literacy

1st MICROLESSON- keep to 30 minutes.

Good ideas for excursion/incursion, a resource and a recommended website.


 * • __Website__- Pinterest! []
 * • __Excursion__- Piney Lakes Environmental Centre []

Potential examination question (based on Week 7 readings)

Koch (2010) states that assessment in a constructivist science classroom will focus on exploring “students’ understanding in terms of their ability to make sense of a situation or a problem” (p. 368). State and discuss the characteristics of three (3) assessment methods as they apply to the science learning area, referring to the assessment principles that underpin the WA Curriculum.

Each group has one of the assessment strategies:
 * science notebooks
 * science portfolios
 * science conversations
 * presentations
 * testing

Use the links above (each one links to to a titan pad document) download the word/PDF version here.



(WAMSE and the ACARA portfolio activities have a link to them on Blackboard )


 * 2nd session of BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE **

**Flowers and Fruits:**
Use digital microscopes/magnifying glasses to examine different flowers

Focus questions:
 * 1) How are they the same/ different?
 * 2) Why are flowers important to plants? (Reproductive  part of the plant)
 * 3) What are the things you notice about flowers? E.g.  scent/ colour
 * 4) What is the relationship between flowers and other  living creatures? E.g. birds/ bees
 * 5) What is pollination and why is it important?

Why are bees important in our world? Explain pollination....make sure you know the difference between vector and wind pollinated flowers
 * Discussion Questions:**



Draw a labeled cross section of a flower.
 * Activity:**

Middle upper primary: [] ECE: []
 * Example Online diagrams:**

Investigate insides of fruit and seed arrangement: - Draw cross sections of various fruits - Discuss sheet- from Flowers to Fruit - Brainstorm the role of fruits in plants - Discuss how seeds can be spread.
 * Activity:**



**Food chains**
Consider these questions..


 * 1) What are food chains?
 * 2) What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
 * 3) What are the essential elements?
 * 4) Why is it important for students of all ages to understand food chains/webs?
 * 5) How can humans affect food chains?

Online activities: Food chains: [|http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2science.html#lcycles5b]

Key terms:
 * 1) omnivore
 * 2) carnivore
 * 3) herbivore
 * 4) Producer
 * 5) consumer - 1st and 2nd level



Food Web




 * Reminders for next week:**
 * 1) Presentation next week
 * 2) Reading on collaborative learning- although no potential  examination question
 * 3) Continue planning lesson or FPD

Information sheets from presentations