Lesson Plan, Please read!!

[SEEDS at UC Berkeley]

Hey everyone!

Thanks for being so productive since last meeting! We are on our way to teaching a superb lesson on Community Interactions. To be certain there are no miscommunications, please read the whole email if you intend to teach!

Our set date is Tuesday March 15th, 8:40am-10:10am. I know a few of you need to leave early, but still the timing should work out well for all of us. 

Kristina can drive people from campus, also the Ashby Bart station is 3 blocks away from Malcolm X Elementary School. We need to be there by 8:30am.

Meriel and I intend to bike there, and you are welcome to join. My number is (858) 208-9251.

Please RESPOND to this email with your phone number and if you need to leave early, at what time. If you need any photos printed, download them, format them how you want, and email them to Kristina. We'll meet again on Tuesday at 5pm in 112 Hilgard. Please bring all your materials so that we can practice, get feedback, and be totally ready for the following week.

Here's the plan:

**15 minute Introduction - developed by Kristina

**Hand out Journals - also developed by Kristina

**4x 15 minutes - Each teacher/teaching pair gets 15 minutes to teach about their interaction to a group of 5 students. We will rotate stations instead of having the children rotate.

    Mutualism : Meriel

    Commensalism : Kelsey/Ciana

    Predation : Grace/Tiffany

    Competition : Mauna/Yekun

**15 minutes - Card game - Kristina, Loralee, Stephanie - Each student gets a card, which has a photo of an organism and a description of an interaction it is involved in. They have time to read the card then find the student whose card is the partner organism. At the end each pair will tell the rest of the class what kind of interaction they have.

Here's an example of the text on the cards:

"You are a clownfish! You live in something with tentacles that sting, but you are immune to the stinging. Your partner protects you from predators, and in exchange, you eat the invertebrates on it that might harm it. Who is your partner?"

"You are an anemone! Your many stinging tentacles protect your partner animal from predation. In exchange your partner eats invertebrates that might hurt you. Who is your partner?"

Loralee and Kristina, you can email me your card texts and photos and I will format them for printing them send the whole thing back to Kristina.

Mutualism

Yucca / White moth - Loralee

Bacteria / Legumes - Kristina

Clownfish / Anemone - Steph

Predation / Herbivory / Parasitism

Shark / Sea turtle - Loralee

Parasitism: Ticks, Mosquitos, Tapeworms, Flukes - Kristina

Bats / Moths - Steph

Commensalism

Arctic fox / Caribou - Loralee

Motmot / Orange-knee tarantula - Steph

Sloths / Sloth moth - Kristina

Competition

Galapagos Finches - Steph

Plants: tamarisk / cottonwood - Loralee

Thanks everyone!

Stephanie Panlasigui

(858) 208-9251