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Sample Lesson Plan

Teachers:

David Spitzer, James Hubert Blake High School
Discipline: Physics and Language Arts
Grade Level: High School
Topic: Evolution of scientific thought

Rationale This is designed to fulfill a semester long required honors science research project. It has been created to allow the students to examine the discoveries made by the natural philosophers of the ancient Greeks and, in an open ended manner, to allow the students to speculate on how these ideas changed the understanding of our natural world and allowed for further expansion of our scientific knowledge base. Also it may allow for the student to examine how societies evolve from explanations derived from mythologies to ones based on data and observation.

Assignment Greek Natural Philosophers Choose one philosopher. What was his theory?

What were the changes occurring at that time that allowed these new ideas to germinate? How did that discovery change, or play a role in the change of their civilization (belief in the gods – mythology- to a secular view of the world)

How did those changes affect our world today? (speculation and inference)

Materials From my website, students will be given an initial list of sites culled to provide an introduction to ancient Grecian understandings as well as biographical background information. In addition, links will be provided to electronic texts of translations of the writing of these philosophers.

Requirements (all will have pre-announced due dates)

Pre-draft notes

First draft

Final product (includes citations and bibliography based on county standards) Assessment See rubric on the following page
State Core Goals Met/Learner Outcomes Core Learning Goals – Science Goals 1 and 5 Skills for Success Goal 1 Expectations 1, 2, and 3 Goal 2 Expectations 1, 2, 3, and 4 Goal 3 Expectation 2 Goal 4 Expectations 2 and 3

Research Report: Greek Natural Philosophers


Teacher name: Spitzer

Student Name ___________________

CATEGORY

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Notes

Notes are recorded and organized in an extremely neat and orderly fashion.

Notes are recorded legibly and are somewhat organized.

Notes are recorded.

Notes are recorded only with peer/teacher assistance and reminders.

First Draft

Detailed draft is neatly presented and includes all required information.

Draft includes all required information and is legible.

Draft includes most required information and is legible.

Draft is missing required information and is difficult to read.

Internet Use

Successfully uses suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.

Usually able to use suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.

Occasionally able to use suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.

Needs assistance or supervision to use suggested internet links and/or to navigate within these sites.

Organization

Information is very organized with well-constructed paragraphs and subheadings.

Information is organized with well-constructed paragraphs.

Information is organized, but paragraphs are not well constructed.

The information appears to be disorganized. 8)

Quality of Information

Information clearly relates to the main topic. It includes several supporting details and/or examples.

Information clearly relates to the main topic. It provides 1-2 supporting details and/or examples.

Information clearly relates to the main topic. No details and/or examples are given.

Information has little or nothing to do with the main topic.

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Last updated August 1, 2002.