Lesson Plans – Amy Fox
Zoology
Please note: All lessons are subject to change at any time dependent on school events and the needs of the students.
Accommodations are followed according to student’s individual plans in conjunction with the guidance/ESE/ESOL Departments.
Date
Learning Goal
Objective
Essential Question
Vocabulary
Bell Work
Agenda
Ticket Out
Homework
2/2/15
Discuss distinguishing
characteristics of
vertebrate and
representative
invertebrate phyla,
and chordate classes
using typical
examples.
Understand the
evolutionary
perspective and
diversity of flat worms
How did
aceolomates evolve?
2/3/15
Discuss distinguishing
characteristics of
vertebrate and
representative
invertebrate phyla, and
chordate classes using
typical examples.
2/4/15
Discuss distinguishing
characteristics of
vertebrate and
representative
invertebrate phyla, and
chordate classes using
typical examples.
2/5/15
Discuss distinguishing
characteristics of
vertebrate and
representative
invertebrate phyla, and
chordate classes using
typical examples.
2/6/15
Discuss distinguishing
characteristics of
vertebrate and
representative
invertebrate phyla, and
chordate classes using
typical examples.
Evaluate what features
of flatworms make them
excellent parasites.
Distinguish among the
variety of flatworms.
Review the latest research
on flatworms.
Which flatworms are
parasitic to humans?
What features
distinguish the different
classes of flatworms?
Read general
information about
flatworms for
comprehension.
What physiological
features distinguish
flatworms?
parenchyma, flame
cells, cocoon,
operculum
Flatworms are
acoelomates; what
does that mean?
tapeworm, hookworm,
schistosomiasis
Platyhelminthes,
turbellaria, trematoda
 Shape of life Flatworm
Animation: Body
Plan
 Flatworm direct
instruction
 Chapter 10 study
guide
Completed study
guide
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today’s classroom
assignment?
mouth, pharynx,
eyespots,
fragmentation
Which class of flatworm
include the
tapeworms?
How was it confirmed
What is the intermediate
that muscular
host for the schistosome
movements in planarian fluke?
were more important
than ciliary movement?
 Shape of life –
 Shape of life –
 Flatworm
Flatworm Animation:
Flatworms: An Invasive
characteristics:
Tapeworm
Flatworm
Reading
 Parasite research
 Classification table
comprehension
Completed research
Completed table
Completed packet
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What are the implications
for the flatworm research
currently being
conducted on the space
station?
gravity, regeneration,
technology, algorithms
Explain why planarians
and flukes are called
flatworms.
 Shape of life – Flatworm
Animation:
Reproduction
 Flatworm article review
 Notebook check
Completed article review
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