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Phases of Mitosis- students struggle with identifying the phases in order…
Phases of Mitosis- students struggle with identifying the phases in order and making connections between the four phases.
Research
Our curriculum has been revised this year, so I first looked over the curriculum for new ideas or materials. Here I found that our curriculum still requires students to understand the steps of mitosis but also connect this knowledge of how this maintains a complex organism.
Fellow Teachers My next step in research was asking CP Biology teachers (I am the only Resource Room Biology teacher) what activities they include while they teach Mitosis that may include technology. I was impressed by these two examples
Mitosis Movie Project
Note- This project would be completed in small groups over several days in a resource room classroom.
Students create a stop-motion animation of the phases of Mitosis. Described as a "flip book" on film. Students are required to use various student selected items to represent cell parts and then take a minimum of 24 pictures of the different stages of the cycle, making very small changes to transition from phase to phase
Students use a Youtube video to identify each step of Mitosis and have to a take a screenshot of each phase. Afterwards they have to organize their screenshots in the correct order and add descriptions for each phase
Online Interactive- Shows the steps of Mitosis in a drawing animation and allows students to click through at their own pace
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TAKE ACTION
My plan- to incorporate the movie project with modifications into my lessons for the phases of mitosis
The movie lesson allows students to be creative in how they present their information and create their cells and chromosomes
Incorporate the movie project but also allow students to come up with different ways to use technology to create a project. Examples - Digital drawings or animated movie software
"As technology propels active engagement and creative thinking, it creates continuous opportunities for teachers to make children's thinking integral to the learning process" (Maloy, p. 64)