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Activating Prior Knowledge and Building

Background
“A person’s background knowledge, often called prior knowledge is a collection of
‘abstracted residue’ that has been formed from all of life’s experiences” (Lent, 2012).
Regardless of the discipline, what students already know about the content you are
about to teach is one of the strongest indicators of how well they will learn new
information. For this module define background knowledge, identify the importance
of background knowledge in content learning, and create a lesson which allows
students to inquire and build their knowledge of a particular topic in your discipline.

Day 1 Instruction (Sample RDG 323)

Engage
Hook: Clades

Link to Safari Journal: Safari Journal


Link to Padlet: Quick Write Padlet

1. Open the link to a google doc called the “Safari


Journal.” Make a copy of this document (file,make a
copy) and use it throughout the digital learning
experience.
2. Examine the incomplete image of a clade, an image
which depicts the stages of an organism's evolution.
3. In the Safari Journal page 4, write down your
thoughts about what you notice.
4. Return to the Safari Tour and share their responses
by posting them in a Padlet linked into the section
called Padlet: What is evolution?. Make sure to
include main ideas behind your thinking in order to
illustrate it better to your peers.
5. Read the prompt in the tour with the question: How
does evolution and its discoverers impact your
understanding of the world today?

Explore
Building Knowledge

More About Evolution

More About Clades

1. Click into the first activity of the safari by clicking


into the Learn More section of Day 1.
2. There will be a video and reading that you will use to
learn more about the theory of evolution and the
clades.
3. Use the notes section of the Safari Journal on page 5
to write down notes in preparation for the activity.
Make sure to get important vocab and facts while

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taking notes.
4. Once you have finished both the video and the
reading, in the Safari Journal, go to the page called
Bubble Map Activity (this is on page 7).
5. Using the information you wrote down, create a
bubble map where they will identify the most
important information that you learned about.
6. Create 4-6 bubble attachments where you will write
down important ideas they learned from the
readings.

Explain
Prior Knowledge Presentation -Revisit your graphic organizer
and add any information related to this presentation

1. Students will be shown a new animal in the zoo of


evolution.

2. A small biography of this animal will be given to the


students.

3. Students will write down their thoughts about what


could have happened in its evolution.

Why this activity is important: This process helps to


establish the ideas of evolution, and they will be able to
learn more about a specific animal. This will also help to
build some background knowledge within the different
processes of evolution, and they will understand how the
zoo of evolution works!

Apply

https://interestingengineering.com/evolution-of-the-theory-of-
evolution

LINK TO POWERPOINT

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Students will be “grouped up”

They will complete a sorting activity

In their journals they will write down their justifications for


it. While writing down their justifications, students need to
really dig in deep in order to convey their reasoning. This
will help illustrate their reasoning behind where they
placed certain animals within the activity.

Share
Gallery will be shown of each student's response, and
students will be shown what the correct answer is.

This will be shared out within their groups, where students will
be encouraged to discuss their reasoning to each other.
Students can ask questions about the reasoning behind their
peers' decision, which will help students gain a better
understanding.

Reflect
Students will reflect in the Safari Journal, and ask
questions about what could cause this animal to evolve?
They will learn more about evolutionary processes
throughout the five day module.

This reflection will serve as a starting point for students to


start thinking about the evolutionary processes. This will
start turning the gears within their mind, and begin to
peak their interest within the evolutionary processes.

Extend
https://wakelet.com/wake/SRGpGKryVdRltqrSlB_E3

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ToIjyRr44wRBmaM9ZQk
zMalXBExHBWwe7DjPjLS4TCg/edit#

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