Chapter 13
"Living Things"
Chapter 13 highlighted the differences between living and nonliving things and the classification of living things based on their kingdom, genus species, etc. Plant and Animal kingdom are the kingdoms most people would be familiar with because they interact with members of these kingdoms everyday. The animal kingdom is divided into vertebrates and invertebrates, most people would be familiar with jellyfish as an example of invertebrates and mammals are all vertebrates.
Chapter 14
"The Human Body"
Chapter 14 talked about the human body. It listed all the systems and their functions as well as how they interact and why it’s important to take care of our bodies.
Chapter 15
"Life Science Lesson Ideas"
Chapter 15 brought both of these topics together to discuss how lessons could be implemented in the classroom. They also provided some preassessment questions to test for gaps in student knowledge.
Some ideas that resonated with me are:
-Class plants, assign roles and responsibility to students to track the plants growth and take care of it as it grows.
-Class pets, same concept
-A unit plan about genetics and inherited traits that students use to discover who gave them their physical traits, mom, dad, grandma, aunt, etc.
-A unit plan on the food chain
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