Harper’s 9 months on the inside
This is Harper, she may look sweet and innocent
but she has just done 9 months on the inside. Well, inside her mother’s uterus
(the organ in the lower body of a
female where offspring are conceived and in which they gestate before birth;
the womb). Over the last 9 months Harper has been an egg cell, a zygote
(the cell that is formed by the union of the male and female cells the zygote
carries all of genetic information and will become the embryo), a fetus and
finally a healthy baby girl. That sounds like a lot of work if you ask me…… She
grew from something that resembled a shrimp, no more than the size of a pen tip
at 12 weeks gestation (the process of carrying or being carried in the
womb between conception and birth), to a 7 pound 19 inch baby.
That
upset look on her face? Well, tell me you wouldn’t be upset, if the doctors had
cut off your 24 hour food supply that the placenta was providing. The
placenta? (it is an organ that connects
the developing fetus to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake and waste
elimination). Not enough to get you upset? How about being pulled out of the
nice warm bath of amniotic fluid Harper has been living in it for the
last 9 months. Amniotic fluid is (a clear to yellowish liquid that surrounds
the unborn baby during pregnancy).
Wait a minute, warm bath, 24 hour food supply?
What kind of prison is this and where do I sign up! Seem like Harper’s 9 months
on the inside weren’t all that hard after all..
Lesson Plan Report:
1.
Describe
your future classroom in terms of content area, grade level, and reading
abilities (above, at, or below grade-level)
This
lesson would fall under a unit on reproduction, grade 12, likely a health class
or a science classroom. Students in this class will have between an average to
above average reading level.
2.
Objective
(Using "The student will be able to. . . " or TSWBAT)
The
student will be able to list some of the major players in fetal development.
They will have a better understanding of how a baby develops.
3.
Model
(How will you model what you want students to do?) Describe the Morphemic
Analysis you will have your students conduct here.
By
providing the students with the words on the screen during the digital story it
will help them with a visual definition, the explanation of the vocabulary
words while the story is being read will give the students an auditory way to
learn the word in context.
4.
Guided
Practice (While students are in groups, pairs, or working with the teacher,
what will they do to learn the objective?)
Students will work in small
groups to complete the vocabulary strategy sheets. By working in groups they
are able to bounce ideas and possibly help each other with words or ideas from
the reading and digital story that they did not understand. The only real
objective here is to promote cooperative learning and expanding on personal
views but listening to what others have observed or are questioning.
6.
Assessment
(How will you know that they can do this objective by themselves? If you make
use of a quiz, please provide the questions.)
Assessment
will be formative, using observations of students working in groups and alone.
Reviewing of the vocabulary strategy sheets the students will complete to see
what we may need to work on as a class.
Before Reading Strategy:
This video would help not only to engage the students before reading, but they could use the information found in the video to assist them in completing their trifolded notes on the 3 trimesters. Also their KWL chart that could be worked on as a class or individually. The video provides students with vocabulary words that could be defined ahead of time to allow better understanding while reading.
Khan Academy: I believe that the video would need to be longer and provide more information to really fit in to the Khan Academy. However, with no current content for fetal development this video may help students get a small look at fetal development.
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