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=** Human Body Systems: The Circulatory System**= //Grade 6 Sample Unit//



= Class Components=



Session 1 – Title: Teaching a Technology-Enriched Science Unit

 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn what scientific concepts and skills using technology participants should really understand by the end of this unit.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to incorporate WebQuests into science instruction.


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Session 2 – Title: Enhancing Science Instruction Using Video

 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn to find and use video to support visual and auditory learners.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to find and use video to support the curriculum.

[|National Science Education Standards] [|Scientific Inquiry: What Is It?]
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 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn the importance of organizing an electronic science notebook.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to create folders and subfolders to organize documents into an electronic science notebook based on the Grade 7 Science Scope and Sequence.


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Session 4 – Title: Using Excel and Microsoft Word

 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to collect, analyze, and display scientific data using a spreadsheet. They will also learn the benefits of using a template to structure data collection and analysis.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to create a template in Excel to collect data, as well as how to utilize Excel and Word.

[|Powers of 10 - pH] [|pH Factor] [|pH Effects on the Body] [|Technical Information on pH] [|Relation between pH and Temperature]
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Session 5 – Title: Finding Quality Web Sites to Support Student Research and Citing Them Using Citation Machine

 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to structure Internet research to facilitate inquiry-based student learning while ensuring that students learn core content, and how to determine what types of Web sites best support 7th grade student research and find those sites.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how Citation Machine can be used to help students cite sources easily and accurately.

[|Dissolved Oxygen and Aquatic Primary Productivity] [|Water Quality and Dissolved Oxygen]
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Session 6 – Title: Interactive Resources to Support the Understanding of the Human Body

 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to use interactive resources as a structured activity to understand the human body.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn what an interactive resource is, and the benefits of using interactive resources either as opposed to textbooks or as supplemental activities.


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Session 7 – Title: Managing Research on the Human Body Using PageKeeper

 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how PageKeeper is used to collect and organize online resources.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn what PageKeeper is, and how to establish a PageKeeper account.


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Session 8 – Title: Using PowerPoint to Teach and Present Information

 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how students can use PowerPoint to present their scientific findings.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to use PowerPoint to present information to students.

[|Preparing Your Laboratory Report] [|Lab Reports]
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//**Facilitator Notes:** You are encouraged to customize the materials to your teaching style. Please add your own contact information in the last slide of your PowerPoints before presenting.//