STEPP Lesson Plan Form

Teacher: Quinton Thai Date:

4-26/27

School: Highland High

Grade Level: 10 Content Area: Biology

Title: Human impact on ecology and test review

Lesson #:__ of __

Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson: (Write Content Standards

directly from the standard) Explain and illustrate with examples how living systems
interact with the biotic and abiotic environment.

Analyze the relationship between structure and function in living systems at a

variety of organizational levels, and recognize living systems dependence on
natural selection.

Understandings: (Big Ideas

Examine, evaluate, question, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and
media to investigate ecosystem interactions

Matter tends to be cycled within an ecosystem, while energy is transformed and

eventually exits an ecosystem

Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of

instruction, select applicable questions from standard)

1. What energy transformations occur in ecosystems?

2. What happens when the cycling of matter in ecosystems is disrupted?

Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)

Every student will be able to: (Create your own lesson objectives from the
standard, follow the ABCD format, using student voice)

I can: Evaluate data and assumptions regarding different scenarios for future human
population growth and their projected consequences

Explain the evaluated data in a presentation format to teach the rest of the class the
importance of human population today compared to the past.

List of Assessments: (Write the number of the learning target associated with
each assessment

Informal presentations to assess learning knowledge. The test review will allow me
to check if the students are engaged

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Planned Lesson Activities

Name and Purpose of Lesson
Should be a creative title for you and the
students to associate with the activity.
Think of the purpose as the mini-rationale
for what you are trying to accomplish
through this lesson.
Approx. Time and Materials
How long do you expect the activity to
last and what materials will you need?
The purpose of this lesson is to analyze data from human population
statistics and human impact on ecosystems in its different areas
including: the atmosphere, biodiversity, cities, coastal habitats, farms,
forests, invasive species, mining, ocean, and water usage.
90 minutes
Chromebooks for HHMI interactive
Jeopardy

Anticipatory Set The bell ringer work for the class will ask the question: Do you think
The hook to grab students attention. we have a population problem? Explain why or why not
These are actions and statements by the
teacher to relate the experiences of the
students to the objectives of the lesson,
To put students into a receptive frame of
mind.
To focus student attention on the
lesson.
To create an organizing framework
for the ideas, principles, or
information that is to follow
(advanced organizers)
An anticipatory set is used any time a
different activity or new concept is to be
introduced.
Procedures Teacher Actions Student Actions
(Include a play-by-play account of what I will make sure the students are in Should be in their seats once the
students and teacher will do from the their seats doing their bell work bell rings,
minute they arrive to the minute they once the bell rings. Addressing the bellwork. (5

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leave your classroom. Indicate the length minutes)

of each segment of the lesson. List actual
minutes.) I will first show them a graph of
Indicate whether each is: the human population over time
-teacher input and have a discussion about how
-modeling rapidly we are populating, and its
-questioning strategies implications. Including topics
-guided/unguided: about Chinese one child laws, and
-whole-class practice other cultural differences.
-group practice
-individual practice I will explain the assignment of the They will be expected to be
-check for understanding HHMI interactive. The students will working and discussing within
-other be assigned 2 to a topic, for 6th groups the impact of their topic,
hour there will be 1 or 2 groups of and putting together a mini
3. presentation such as note cards to
They will be assigned atmosphere, teach the class about the topic.
biodiversity, cities, coastal
habitats, farms, forests, invasive
species, mining, ocean, and water
use.
The students are expected to
They will each have 15 minutes to teach the class about the topic
put together a mini presentation and what they got from
using the interactive on the board researching the interactive. If
to teach the class about each topic groups lack the ability to teach
including evidence using the data well and get points across, I will
given intervene to correct or add depth.

After each student teaches each

topic, I will have an exit ticket for
the end of the first half/beginning Their exit ticket will assess what
of the second half. they learned about humans
impact on the environment.
At the end of the hour I will ask
them on the board to be turned in
on a piece of paper in your

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opinion, what is the most For jeopardy review the students

detrimental human impact on the are expected to switch the person
environment today. writing each turn, and work
together using their notes to find
The second half will be jeopardy the answers to the questions.
review for the unit test on Friday.
Closure The exit ticket will assess their knowledge of the topic and give them
Those actions or statements by a teacher closure for the lesson on human impacts. The second half is review,
that are designed to bring a lesson giving obvious closure to the biome unit.
presentation to an appropriate conclusion.
Used to help students bring things
together in their own minds, to make
sense out of what has just been taught.
Any Questions? No. OK, lets move on is
not closure. Closure is used:
To cue students to the fact that
they have arrived at an important
point in the lesson or the end of a
lesson.
To help organize student learning
To help form a coherent picture and to
consolidate.
Differentiation The review questions and answers will be uploaded to google classroom
To modify: If the activity is too advanced for those who need it. There are easier and harder topics to teach the
for a child, how will you modify it so that class in each interactive, I will assign the easier topics to the lower level
they can be successful? students, and the higher level topics to the higher achieving students.
To extend: If the activity is too easy for a
child, how will you extend it to develop
their emerging skills?
Assessment The exit ticket will directly assess their learning of human impact on the
How will you know if students met the environment, and the jeopardy results will show me and the students if
learning targets? Write a description of they are ready to be tested on the unit.
what you were looking for in each
assessment.

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Post Lesson Reflection

1. To what extent were lesson objectives achieved? (Utilize

assessment data to justify your level of achievement)

2. What changes, omissions, or additions to the lesson would

you make if you were to teach again?

3. What do you envision for the next lesson? (Continued practice,

reteach content, etc.)

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