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**Day Ten - The Nature of Science ** by George Mikota III esson Plan Document Typ sson Plan **Lesson Plan Subject** Science The Nature of Science 8th grade 50 minutes The overall purpose of this lesson will be for the students to discover what important roles scientists play in our society. The students will be able to explain how the scientific discovery that their scientist worked on has changed the world.
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 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">IL.13.A.5b ** || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">> Explain criteria that scientists use to evaluate the validity of scientific claims and theories. ||
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The students will be able to assess the importance of their scientist's discovery and explain the necessity of that discovery. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Scientist posters
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The students will be given the first ten minutes in class to complete the scientist posters and organize their presentations. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">2. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The students will present their scientist projects to the class, and the teacher will be assessing the students on their oral and poster presentation of the scientist based on the rubric handed out earlier in the week. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The students will be assessed on their poster presentations using the rubric handed out earlier in the week.
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