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Writing to Learn and Demonstrate Learning

This lesson plan focuses on using writing as a tool to learn and demonstrate understanding of natural selection. Students will activate prior knowledge through brainstorming their thoughts on natural selection before viewing videos on the subject, including Darwin’s perspectives. Following video reflections, students will engage in discussions, exploring the relationship between animal beaks and flower shapes. The culminating activity involves observing flowers and identifying animals attracted to them, supporting their reasoning through writing. Poetry and visuals are integrated to deepen understanding.

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Writing to Learn and Demonstrate Learning

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  1. Writing to Learn and Demonstrate Learning Writing through Science: Natural Selection

  2. Prewrite • Activate prior knowledge • Take 3-5 minutes to write down your ideas about natural selection. What do you think it means? What do you know or want to know about it? • Share in groups.

  3. Video • Darwin’s Natural Selection • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKz01UB8QrY • Darwin’s Song of Natural Selection • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt2gHpqfZNA

  4. Reflect • Writing to Demonstrate Learning • Reflecting on the videos you just viewed, compare what you thought you knew to what you saw in the videos. • Did you learn anything you didn’t know before? • Were your ideas before viewing the same as after viewing?

  5. Activity Natural Selection Unicorn Writing (Writing to Demonstrate Learning)

  6. Extension/Connection • Flowers – What’s the relationship between animal beaks and flowers? • Pictures / Observations • As you view the pictures and the flowers, consider the animals that would be attracted to the different shapes of flowers.

  7. Final Writing • After observing and viewing the flowers, make a list of the animals that you believe would be most attracted to the flowers and describe your reasoning. • Writing to Demonstrate Learning

  8. Flowers • Daffodils • I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.The waves beside them danced; but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed--and gazed--but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils. • William Wordsworth

  9. Flowers • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11hd_fEA9T0

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