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Lesson Overview:
Students will take what they have observed, what they have learned, and what they still have questions about, and create their own experiments and inquiries.
Objectives:
- access prior scientific knowledge
- create their own experiments
- submit their experiments to this web site
- be aware that all creatures live, grow and die
- experience a sense of closure with this project.
Subject Area Focus: science, scientific writing, & language arts
Materials:
- journals
Procedure:
- Teacher can inform students in the beginning of the class:
-I hope you enjoyed this project and learned a great deal about Manduca and maybe a few other things along the way. The moths here will only live for a week or two and then they die. The life cycle is now complete. But, we are not done with Manduca just yet! - Now it is your turn to create an experiment or investigate something about Manduca that interests or puzzles you.
- The teacher wants to open this lesson by talking about what a hypothesis is.
- The subject should then move to what makes a good experiment.
- Students should understand how to write up their experiments clearly.
- Completed experiments and inquiries can be submitted to the teacher and sent to our website.
- If we choose yours we will send an e-mail to you thanking you for your contribution and your experiment will be added to our site!
- Observation journals should be collected.
- Teachers should congratulate themselves for the completion of a long series of lessons that were hopefully successful in helping students and maybe even themselves to learn something new.
* Remember to check back in a few weeks to see if any of your lessons or experiments are on the site.