Topic: Mitosis1 (The following is a mix of “objectives” and “learning activities”. I do NOT use all of these but I
want the aarows in my quiver. I do try to use these to write exam questions.
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Deeper Learning Principles
Factual
Conceptual
Procedural
Metacognitive
Remember
Steps of
mitosis
Processes that are
unique to mitosis
Identification
of generic
steps of
mitosis
Understand
steps
Compare process
to binary fission
Draw flow
chart of steps
Apply
Apply the
mitotic
pathway to
cancer cells
Analyze
Compare
regular
mitosis to
cancer
mitosis
Explain what
would
happened if
there was an
error in
mitosis
Evaluate
Create
Create a
new type of
mitosis (?)
Compare process
to cancer
Apply mitotic
pathway to binary
fission
Compare cancer
mitosis to mitosis
of new species
Test flow
chart of steps
by appliying
it to xxxx.
Identify
major steps
and sub-steps
and illustrate
Identify other
cell divisions
that are a
product of
mitosis
Record steps in
the way that
you can best
remember
mitosis
Identify another
processes that
you have used
similar to this
one
Decide whether
following steps
is helpful to
you during x
assignment
Identify how
your steps
broke down or
where they
helped
Evaluate the
helpfulness of
the your steps
Active
Develop a mitosis
pathway for a new
species (?)
Social
Design a new drug that
will regulate mitosis
Contextual
Identify the processes
and key steps upon
which a regulatory
drug can work
Engaged
Ownership
Create a new
set of steps
that you can
use to
Learning outcomes
Remember steps of mitosis
Compare mitosis in eukaryotes to bacterial cell division
Predict which steps in mitosis are most likely to be regulated
Place mitosis in context of the cell cycle
Compare normally functioning mitosis and cancer mitosis.
Design a “drug” that would affect uncontrolled mitosis (cancer).
Desing a pneumonic for mitosis
Draw flowchart of mitosis and flowchart of uncontrolled mitosis (cancer)
Related mitosis to natural selection
Criteria for demonstrating understanding:
Students can list the phases of mitosis
Students can follow the chromosomes during mitosis
Students can tell how many sets of chromosomes are present in each phase of mitosis
Students can draw a ven diagram of eukaryotic and binary fission
Students can predict where particular drugs will affect the cell cycle/mitosis
Students can predict how errors in mitosis will affect the outcome
Known misconceptions
Deep approach: How many people have been touched by cancer in their lives?
Wonder why it is so difficult to treat? Why isn’t there a magic drug? Why is chemo and radiation so
hard on people.
We need to go back a bit- to the firs protists to understand what is happening.
Activities: Compare Contrast Mitosis and binary fission- link to phylogeny thru convergent/descent with
modification (homologous/analogous traits).
Activites: How does chemotherapy work
Activities: Unit_Two_PracticingBio_IG