5E Lesson Plan Template

Lesson Plan Overview

Teach Number: Day 4 Names of Students Teaching: Alex Lambert

Teach Date: Title of Lesson: Where’s The Gas?

Source: N/A
Teach Time:
Grade Level: AP Biology
Teach Length: 120 minutes
Mentor’s School: Mentor Teacher’s Name:

NGSS/CCSS for Lesson: N/A

Scientific/Math Practices: N/A

Objectives Evaluation

1. Students will…Identify the differences 1. Completing the Fermentation Handout

between Alcoholic and Lactic Acid
Fermentation

2. Students will...Explain how their Starter recipe 2. Answering the proposed questions on their
affects the rate of fermentation bread presentation write up
Materials List (Be SPECIFIC about quantities): Accommodations

For whole class: Safety: N/A

● PowerPoint

Per group:

Per student:
● Fermentation handout
● Devices

Engagement
Use an interesting attention-grabber that focuses students’ interest and attention on the lesson content
and activities.

Description of activity: Students will start by thinking about the question on the board as they
come in “what are some of our favorite and least favorite exercises?”. Students are sharing
out their answers and participate in a class discussion about how our body feels when we
work out.

Estimated section time: 10 minutes

How is the teacher facilitating?
Estimated
What are the students doing? [Include the questions you will ask students and
Time
possible student responses to those questions.]

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Students are thinking about the opening
question
Students are sharing out their answers
Asking questions and furthering the class
discussion
Teacher is welcoming students as they
come in and asking them to think about
the question on the board
Listen to students answers and posing
further questions such as “do you breath
heavier after exercise?”, “how do your
muscles feel after running a lot?”

Exploration
Description of activity: Students are working with their table partners to fill in the blanks on the
Fermentation handout. Start with Lactic Acid fermentation and then alcoholic fermentation.
Between each type of fermentation we will go over what the students put for the blanks and
discuss why they put that answer there.

Estimated section time: 45 minutes

How is the teacher facilitating?
Estimated
What are the students doing? [Include the questions you will ask students and
Time
possible student responses to those questions.]

Students will are working with their table
partners to fill in the handout
Provides the answers they put and their
explanation for the answer, participates
in class discussion
Monitors student work by walking
around and asking questions.
Calls students back together to talk
about the answers they put. Poses
questions such as “what is the difference
between the two types of
fermentation?”

Elaboration
Description of activity: Students will use the fermentation handout and the topics we talked
about to start writing their Bread Presentation Write Ups. In these write ups they were tasked
with answering three major questions “Why did you choose the ratio you did?”, “How does
fermentation allow our bread to rise?”, “Why did you choose the name you did?”.

Estimated section time: 30 minutes

How is the teacher facilitating?
Estimated
What are the students doing? [Include the questions you will ask students and
Time
possible student responses to those questions.]

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5 mins Students are working with their partners Monitors student work, answers
to complete their write ups questions and engages with student
discussion