Category Archives: Closure

assessment, Closure, Warm Up

A Quick Exit Activity

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In this  exit activity, teachers can assess or pre-assess their students comfort level as they walk out of the door.

For this simple exit activity or pre-assessment activity all the teacher needs to do is draw and label the graph on the board.

The students are then able to walk up and place their “sticky note” in the column that represents how comfortable they are.

That quick the teacher has a graph of what would likely represent the distribution of scores if a quiz or test was given that day. Of course this all depends on the honesty of the students so encourage them to answer honestly.

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Closure, graphing, Warm Up

Graphing Worksheet

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Graphing Worksheet

In this weeks free worksheet I wanted to share with you a graphing  worksheet. We all know our students need more time and practice graphing.

In this graphing worksheet  students watch the videos on graphing from Paul Anderson at Bozeman Science. Students follow along in the video and answer questions on the Graphing Worksheet that I created to go along with the videos. Students  create their own graph and compare it to the one in the video and record their differences.

This activity is a great way to introduce graphing to your students. Sometimes as teachers we just expect that students come to us with these skills but  we need to teach it to them or at least remind them of the proper way to set up and read a graph.

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Cells, Closure, Interactive Notebook, Note Taking, Warm Up

Biology Cell Organelle Activity

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To allow students to explore the part of the cell a gave the students a blank plant and animal cell along with a copy of the PPT on Cell organelles. Students were instructed to use the notes and other resources to identify the cell parts. Students were expected to color code their notes with the animal cell and the plant cell organelles. Any items in the notes that were not visible to label on the diagram were to be copied in pencil all other notes were to be written using the same color they used identify the organelle.This activity goes along well with my Cell Boxing Activity that you can have access to along with other free goodies here on my free lesson page.

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Cells, Closure, Photosynthesis and Resipration, Warm Up

Photosynthesis and Respiration

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This week we returned from break to a 3 day week. I started the week by reviewing cells using a webquest. I then moved on to photosynthesis and respiration. I began class showing the student a gift I received for my birthday. The gift was an Eco-sphere. The concept of the Ecosphere was  developed in NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory. It is a completely closed off system that sustains  3  shrimp, algae and bacteria. It really got my students asking questions.

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Closure, Macromolecules, Vitamins and Minerals, Warm Up

Vocabulary and a Beach Ball

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Biology Vocabulary Activity

One of the biggest challenges for teaching biology is helping students learn the vocabulary that is foreign to them. I took to a beach ball to assess what the students knew about each of the macromolecules.

Anytime you can get  a part of the beach into your classroom you need to take advantage of it.  This activity works great to supplement the Biochemistry Boxing Activity that you can get free here by signing up for email updates.

Vocabulary Activity

To do this activity you will need a beach ball and a dry erase marker. Write the names of the macromolecules or any vocabulary terms on each section of the beach ball.

Toss the ball to the students and when they catch it they look to see where their right thumb lands and say the definition of the word their thumb landed on.

I then have the students throw the ball back to me to prevent them from being tempted to bounce it off their classmates heads.

Participation is 100% and it allow me to assess their knowledge of the vocabulary. If a students thumb lands on wild they get to pick the vocabulary term. The kids did not want to stop this activity.


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