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UF-CPET SSI & STARTS Lesson Plan

Consider the following during the Engage:

 Include an interesting attention grabber that focuses students’ interest and

attention on the lesson content and activities.

 Introduce a guiding question that students should be able to answer at the end of the

lesson.

Probing Questions:

 Elicit prior knowledge and students’ experiences.

ENGAGE

Overview

Illicit background knowledge and establish basic knowledge through group activity and

class discussion.

Activities (Teacher or Student Actions)

Probing Questions

What are traits?

Show a picture of offspring (animals or people)

Where do living things get their traits?

and begin a discussion about traits and where

How do parents contribute their traits to

they come from. The lesson will be directed

offspring?

towards differentiating between inherited

genetic traits and learned/developed traits.

Groups of 3-4 students will creat posters using

pictures of organisms and short descriptions of

physical and behavorial traits and where the

organism obtained them.

Making A Poster : Traits

Adapted from

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