Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Cells and Organic

In 7th grade science we have been discussing cells and organic chemistry. Here are a few examples of how we did this in our ISN:

Students complete a cell structure and analogy worksheet after completing notes. we went over this as a class and they glued it on the right side. Then before they took a quiz we did a vin diagram on the left side to compare plants and animals.


For organic chemistry we started by completing a card sort about elements and compounds. I had them write the definition for element and compound on the top left side of their spiral. We discussed the sort together and watched two brainpop videos to remind them about elements and compounds. Next we read an article from discovery education about organic compounds and the students created a concept map using the information in the article. We used selective highlighting as we read.


The next day students put information together using a sort that looks like this. I did not cut it all out, just in half. Our IC made this and it is awesome!
After we did this sort I asked the students to pick 2 organic and 2 inorganic compounds and write the info on the left side of the next page. Then we talked about the information and completed notes






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