Week 3- Life Cycles


 Week 3- Life Cycles

 Learning This Week:

This week, I learned about the process of life cycles, complete vs incomplete metamorphosis, and how living things are interrelated. Every living thing goes through some form of a life cycle and there is complete and incomplete metamorphosis in these cycles. A complete metamorphosis consists of 4 stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Humans, turtles, butterflies, etc. all have complete metamorphosis. On the other hand, incomplete metamorphosis consists of 3 stages: egg, nymph, and adult. Grasshoppers, crickets, dragonflies, etc. are examples of incomplete metamorphosis. 

Living things are all interrelated through their ecosystems. Photosynthesis is the important process that plants undergo to get their food. Animals then eat these plants and go through cellular respiration to get their energy through ATP. Animals also eat other animals (humans eating beef, pork, poultry, etc.)            to get energy. This is an ongoing cycle where biotic species rely on other    biotic and abiotic factors in their environment. 
Seed Germination 

Application to Future Teaching: 

I will apply my learning this week to my future teaching through utilizing the modeling practice in the cross-cutting concepts. During our lab section, we made life cycles of anything we wanted through play dough. This is a modeling practice because we are manipulating items to represent something. My group created the life cycle of a turtle and represented all four stages of metamorphosis. Another activity that we engaged in to allow us to visually see the process of a life cycle is through seed germination and growing our fast plants. We will be able to use observation each time we come to class to see how or seeds and plants are growing. 
Playdough Life Cycle

Questions for Further Study

1.) What is an effective way to model the photosynthesis or cellular respiration process through modeling with students? 

2.) What is a way to teach the affects that the carbon cycle has on the environment that connects the real world to classroom learning? 
Fast Plants



Comments

  1. Grace MayerFebruary 4, 2024 at 7:33 PM

    Hi Bailie! I really like how you have organized your blog. I like how you spread out the pictures and highlighted the questions as it makes it look very organized. When I was answering the question as to how I could implement what we learned this week into my future teaching, I also said that implementing the modeling of concepts can be beneficial as it gives students something to look at while actively learning that concept.

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  2. Brooklyn's BlogFebruary 5, 2024 at 12:23 PM

    Hi Bailie! I really enjoyed reading through your blog post, and especially loved seeing the picture of your life cycle you created with play dough in class. The questions you came up with really interesting. I would love to learn more about the ways that we can teach and model the carbon cycle in our own classrooms, that give students an effective and engaging learning experience.

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