OVERVIEW LEARNING GOAL

The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional
strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of
content areas and their connections, and to build skills to apply
knowledge in meaningful ways.
Students will learn: how sea urchins use
diffusion and the semipermeable
membrane to survive, acidification and
how it affects the ocean population, and
how to design and carry out an experiment
from start to finish.

NARRATIVE
This was the second lesson I taught in my placement with Mrs.
Williams. Similar to my first lesson, I was introducing another lab
that the students were to complete over the next couple of days.
This time, students were reviewing abiotic and biotic factors, and
how they affect an ecosystem. After reviewing this together, we
went on to talk about the sea urchin (a common theme when
working through the NGSS Standards for Biology) and its shell.
Students were asked to make a lot of different predictions during
the lab, which I felt kept it interesting and caused the students to
key into their creativity. I then introduced the topic of diffusion and
the semipermeable membrane to the students. We discussed how
this relates to the sea urchin and its shell. We also discussed
acidification and how this can hurt the sea urchin. In this
experiment, students were to test this theory using an egg to
represent the sea urchin and its shell. The students were to place the
egg in two different water samples: one was normal water and the
other being vinegar water to represent acidified water. The
following day, students would come back and see how the water
affected the eggs.
REFLECTION
This lesson went a lot better than my first
one. I was able to teach all three Biology
classes without having Mrs. Williams step in.
I used the helpful feedback Mrs. Williams
provided from my last lesson to make this
one stronger. After my first class of teaching,
she reminded me to work on time
management with the students. However,
after the next two classes, she said I did a
great job and didn’t have any other important
feedback. I was confident in my teaching
abilities and students seemed to understand
this lesson a lot more than the first one I
taught. There were less questions and you
could tell by body language that there was
more understanding.

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