Lesson Title: 3 Days of heart dissections

Prepare By: Lesson by Daniel Bowes, lab by Dan Adrian

Stage 1 Desired Results

Prescribed Learning Outcomes:
Established Goals for the Lesson: Have students be comfortable
with basic terminology used for the circulatory system, as well as
be able to create these connections with a physically heart and
understand where everything fits together.
Connection to / or Activation
of Background Knowledge:

Students have had many

quizzes on the circulatory
system. Accessing this
terminology will be key.
Drawing connections with
working knowledge of objects
to understand the materials
used for the lab.

Students will Walk out With:

Students will know how to use a
scalpel, scales, and alternative methods
of measurement used in non-ELL
science classrooms. They will also know
how to follow lab procedure and lab
rules to prevent injury.
Students will understand that their
actions can have consequences in the
lab. Quick movements and carelessness
can lead to injury.
Students will be able to dissect a
sheep heart!

Stage 2 Assessment Evidence

Informal Checks for
Formal Checks for
Summative
Understanding
Understanding
Assessment /
Going through
Scale Worksheet
Transformation of
worksheet prior to
Walkthrough of
Learning
doing the lab.
dissection
Lab Worksheet
Going over lab rules in
class.
Being able to identify
the sections of the heart
based on their
understanding.

Places to Hold Their Thinking:

Worksheet/lab sheet

Stage 3 Learning Plan

Processing / Learning Activities

Designed to Ensure Understanding
and Promote Critical Thinking:
Lab prep worksheets to ensure
understanding of lab materials and
behavior.
Drawing of lab materials to ensure
understanding of what I am talking
about.
Scales worksheet to ensure they can
use scales properly.
Step by Step Through the Lesson:
Teacher
Day 1 45-50 minutes after a quiz.
20 minutes spent doing prep for lab.

Possible Ways to
Differentiate
Be sure to pronunciate
properly
Keep language basic
Pair up students someone
who wont cute with
someone who will.
Make sure there are no
religious oppositions to
the lab.

Student

Introduce the lab to the students.

5 minutes
Go over materials and procedure to be 10 minutes, fill our
followed to do the lab.
worksheet and draw any
terms that are unfamiliar
Hand out rules to follow and go
when Mr Bowes goes over
through them.
it.
5 minutes
Leave stuff in class, go to superlab to
do weighing exercise. Keep the class
5 minutes transition and
timed.
setup.
5 minutes to explain how
to use a four bar scale.
15 minutes of doing
worksheet (about 5
minutes a question) going
around making sure
procedure is followed
properly and efficiently.
Day 2 Weighing and Dissection
5 minutes cleanup and
Get to #2 on the worksheet
transition back up to
(dissection).
room.
Go over lab rules again in class
stress no screwing around when there
are sharp objects.
5 minutes
Transition down to the lab and set up

when I tell them to grab a tray after I

have paired people up.
Get 1 heart from Flora per group (up
to 6 hearts for the class)
Get first page (double sided) of data
collection done, weighing, measuring,
illustration of heart. Being careful to
not go over time.

5 minutes, they stay in

these groups next day.
5 minutes, dont freak
out.
30-35 minutes

Walk students through dissection. 5

cuts. Start with the apex facing you,
5 minutes
cut the ear of the right atria with
the scissors, then straight down the
left side of the heart through the right
ventricle, exposing it.
5 minutes
Same cut on the left atria , then down
to the left ventricle, paying attention
to the difference in thickness of the
muscle on this side of the heart.
5 minutes.
Final cut, divide the septum in two
from the tip of the apex through to
the aorta, splitting the heart into two
cross sections.
Cleanup 10 minutes minimum from
everybody.
Day 3 Data Gathering of inside of the
heart.

Potential Barriers to Success / Areas to Differentiate:

Stage 4 Follow Up

Follow Up/Reflection: What went right? What would I change for

next time?