Epidemic Unit
Lesson 4 - Planning an Experiment
Two 60-minute period
Slides 53-68
IEFs:
Spread of infectious diseases
Students develop experimental procedures and critique each other’s designs
Students design an experiment that will be used to develop evidence-based claims
Students understand that scientists use critique to generate reliable experimental designs
Overview of Lesson
Students utilize the previously established criteria for good practices to design an experiment that will be later used to make evidence-based claims about real world phenomena
Class serves as a scientific community to provide feedback on one another’s experimental designs
Key Takeaways
Students will work in their peer groups to come up with an experimental procedure for their mitigation factor (30 min)
Students will present their designs to their peers for critique (30 min)
Students will revise their designs and then move on to conducting the experiment and collecting data as they described (40 min)
What We Do and Figure Out
For a more detailed explanation of the lesson: Lesson 4 Reasoning and Notes