Leverage the Data You Have

ABSTRACT

The output attributes from the simulation run include the glucose molecules absorbed by cells, oxygen molecules absorbed by cells, amino acid molecules absorbed by cells, oxygen molecules taken in per breath, heart rate, breath rate, cellular respiration, and change in stored glucose molecules. Next, I wrote the instructions and questions for the activity (available in the class worksheet in Supplemental Materials). Because many of my students at this point in the year were focused on finding the "right" answer, I created questions that prompted them to think creatively about the data. Because we had shifted to fully remote instruction due to the pandemic, I used Google Meet and Classroom to begin and end each class period with full group discussions;during the rest of the class, students worked independently. To support the special education students and ELLs, we worked with them in small groups and provided them with sentence starters designed to help them start answering each of the worksheet questions (see sentence starters in Supplemental Materials).