Rebecca Sheehy
SLM 521
Students will be able to navigate through the WWW to find biology activities for use in class.
Students will be able to pick the activities that they find interesting.
Students will be able to provide evidence in the form of a written letter in support of which activities we will use during the course of the class.
Every year teachers and school boards choose class content to be learned, activities, lessons, quizzes, labs, and tests/projects without asking students for any input as to what they would like to do. I am giving you the opportunity to research activities on the Internet to be used later in the semester. If the activities that you find are not challenging for your grade level and learning level, I will supplement other activities. This is your chance, and may be your only chance, to participate and co-write a part of your class syllabus. Have fun while working on this activity, but also make it challenging for yourself and your classmates.
Go to the following websites and research the provided activities.
Quia – contains games such as hangman, flashcards, concentration, and word searches among many others.
Access Excellence – has problem solving activities and “activities-to-go” which teach students scientific concepts and processes.
The Biology Project – This is a part of the University of Arizona website that provides more challenging activities.
Ms. Windig’s Biology Activities Page – this site contains Biology activities and labs.
The Biology Corner – This site contains activities like web quests, interactive games, and worksheets.
For this assignment, you will pick five activities that you would like to use during this semester, including where you found the activity and a rationale for why you chose that activity. Feel free to search for other activity sites and devise your own activity based on one that you find.
The assignment will be written on paper and turned in after the completion of the course module, in two days.
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5 Activities |
Contains all five activities and the site where they were found |
Contains all five activities, sans site links or contains three or four activities with site links |
Contains few activities or few site links |
Contains little or no activities and/or site links or material is not relevant to assignment |
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Activity Rationale |
Paper contains in-depth explanations for each activity choice |
Paper contains some explanation for each activity choice |
Paper contains little explanation for activity choices |
Paper is void of any explanation for activity choices or is irrelevant |
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Clarity and Grammar |
Rationale is coherent and contains less than two grammatical errors |
Rationale is somewhat coherent or contains some grammatical errors |
Rationale is somewhat coherent and contains several grammatical errors |
Rationale is incoherent and is filled with grammatical errors |
Teachnology – a website that contains many types of worksheets that can be used in instructional settings.
Metacrawler – This is a meta search engine that you can use if you choose to search for more activity containing websites.