Format
1. This program doesn't require materials but it will need each student to have a computer.
2. A link to the interactive lesson will be provided in an email at least a week before session is set to take place.
3. Liberty Science Center (LSC) instructors will open the Zoom link 15 min before lesson begins to ensure teacher can log into the Zoom.
4. Teacher should join the Zoom link, while students have the interactive lesson ready and opened.
5. Teachers will need to group students into teams of 4.
6. LSC instructors will lead the session once everyone is ready to go.
7. LSC instructors will show 3 different video clips of Zombie behavior however none of the videos are violent or graphic.
Objectives
1.Practice implementing the claim, evidence, reasoning framework for scientific explanation.
2. Explain why zombies behave the way they do and whether mutated strains of the zombie virus will change that behavior.
3. Describe how damage to certain areas of the brain can change behavior.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
MS-LS1-3: Use arguments supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.
Science & Engineering Practices (SEP)
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions:
Construct a scientific explanation based on valid and reliable evidence obtained from sources (including the students’ own experiments) and the assumption that theories and laws that describe the natural world operate today as they did in the past and will continue to do so in the future.
Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI)
MS-LS1.A: In multicellular organisms, the body is a system of multiple interacting subsystems. These subsystems are groups of cells that work together to form tissues and organs that are specialized for particular body functions.
Crosscutting Concepts (CCC)
Systems and System Models:
Systems may interact with other systems; they may have sub-systems and be a part of larger complex systems.
Models (e.g., physical, mathematical, computer models) can be used to simulate systems and interactions— including energy, matter, and information flows—within and between systems at different scales.