Original 5E Lesson Plan on Natural Selection
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Updated 5E Lesson Plan  on Natural Selection
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*Students utilize the Glog below and there is no need for worksheets

      Natural Selection Glog created for my Universal Design for Learning Lesson

ENGAGEMENT

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Multiple Means of Engagement
1. Provide Options for Recuiting interest
2. Provide Options for sustaining efforts and persistence.
3. Provide Options for self-regulation.
On-line Natural Selection game.  This game is interactive and "grabs" the students attention.  The student has to solve a problem in the given situation.  (select above icon in Glog)
Use of technology.  This lesson incorporates the use of computers to  utilize many tools.  Students interact with a Glog created at Glogster.
In the glog, students have audio to accompany text and to explain the activity, are linked to a Google spreadsheet to enter data, a Google survey doc to enter responses to analysis questions (select the "Thinking Cap" icon on bottom right of glog), linked to a web graphing site to visually graph data to see patterns,  and the students have  a link to a Google doc that summarizes what is to be completed(select the graph paper icon on bottom left of glog)
Physical manipulation of pieces for the activity. students follow the textual and audio directions to manipulate the toothpicks that represent the alleles for the fish.
*Previous knowledge: Link to a video on  Charles Darwin (select the Darwin picture in the glog)

All of these activities and the interaction the students have with the glog ( visual and auditory) as well as the hands-on part of the activity with the toothpicks, allows for multiple means of engagement.

EXPRESSION

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Tool for Evaluate and Elaborate (animate and audio tool)








Multiple Means of Expression
1. Provide for physical action: manipulative part of activity with the toothpicks. ( instructions in text and audio in glog)and computer interaction, working in groups members to assist each other as needed
2. Options for communication and expression. Elaborate and Evaluate using different web tools,:
Voki, Shidonni, toondoo where students create a toothpick fish and describe its genotype, phenotype and what happened to it in the scenario.
*Multimedia presentaton and interaction
3.Options for Executive function: checklists (select the "what are you to do" icon on bottom right in glog), providing background information (Darwin video review), definitions (vocabulary words linked to definitions in glog), modeling alleles by usng the colored toothpicks to represent them.

REPRESENTATION

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Multiple Means of Representation
1. Provide options for perception:
 Visuals, audio, interaction, colorful, simple shapes and design
2. Provide options for language and symbols
*terms linked with definitions to assist with background knowledge.
3. Provide options for comprehension
*Audio to clarify directions and some vocabulary
*Video of background info form previous lesson provided in glog

                                                 Student Work
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Student Data : Google spreadsheet
Student Voki 1
Student Voki 2
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Number of each phenotype of toothpick fish surviving after each generation.
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Move left and right sliders or your arrow keys  to see student responses below from the Google survey:
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Additional Items

Final Project Planning Sheet
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Darwin Video Graphic Organizer
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  Unit VI, Lesson Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution from the MSDE 0n-line course
  Unit 6: Evolution, Lesson A: Explaining biodiversity Activity 1 P4.  Previous lesson.