Week 3: Life Cycles

    1. What did you learn this week?

This week I learned more about the life cycles of different living things including both plants and animals. I also learned more about how we can help our students understand the life science standards by practicing how to make models to deepen our learning. These are valuable concepts because they connect to the NGSS standards, allowing us to practice the application of the standards before we enter the classroom setting. 

    2. Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already knew?

I was able to apply our learning from last week to this week and read the NGSS standards to understand how the activity we completed was crafted from the NGSS standards. This is a valuable skill that we are able to see modeled for us, assuming this will happen week after week.

    3. Which parts did you find clear and which were confusing?

 

I am still confused about how the crosscutting concepts differ from the disciplinary core ideas in practice. It is easy to understand that they are different and can serve different purposes on paper but I am left wondering their practical differences.