Unit 6, Lesson 1: Intro to Threshold 6
Learning Target: I can discuss what it means to be human
Class Activities:
1. Students walked in and began the do now, which asked them to review the terms "complexity" and "threshold". A threshold is a new level of complexity, kind of a point of no return. Complexity is the idea that a collection of parts can do something any individual part can't do on its own. For example, a car is more complex than an engine because it can do things that an engine can't do alone. A human body is more complex than a lung.
2. We split into two groups and went into the hallway. Each group had 15 signs that describe the history of the universe. They raced to put them in order, from the Big Bang through threshold 5.
3. We came back in the room and I basically explained that during the second semester, we'll be focusing on human history. Threshold 6 is Early Humans. But why do we humans deserve a threshold? Aren't we animals, really? Students free wrote a response to that question in Part 1 of the handout, then they shared in groups, and then we opened it to a whole class discussion.
Papers handed in today:
None
Homework:
Binder check on Friday. (You simply need to have a binder or section of a binder cleaned out for the new semester.)
Class Activities:
1. Students walked in and began the do now, which asked them to review the terms "complexity" and "threshold". A threshold is a new level of complexity, kind of a point of no return. Complexity is the idea that a collection of parts can do something any individual part can't do on its own. For example, a car is more complex than an engine because it can do things that an engine can't do alone. A human body is more complex than a lung.
2. We split into two groups and went into the hallway. Each group had 15 signs that describe the history of the universe. They raced to put them in order, from the Big Bang through threshold 5.
3. We came back in the room and I basically explained that during the second semester, we'll be focusing on human history. Threshold 6 is Early Humans. But why do we humans deserve a threshold? Aren't we animals, really? Students free wrote a response to that question in Part 1 of the handout, then they shared in groups, and then we opened it to a whole class discussion.
Papers handed in today:
None
Homework:
Binder check on Friday. (You simply need to have a binder or section of a binder cleaned out for the new semester.)
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