Lesson Plan:

Invasion of the spongy moth and what to do about it

Overview

This is a lesson I developed for LIFE 320 for a community ecology or human-ecology impacts unit. This lesson gets the students interested in the topic by framing it as a socio-scientific issue, or an issue for which both scientific, social context, and personal values are needed to make a decision. This is formatted as a jigsaw with specialist and home groups, where each student learns a specialty and then shares that information with their home group in order to work together to create a plan to deal with the invasion of the spongy moth in Colorado.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

Demonstrate the following skills:

Demonstrate knowledge of:

Instructional Planning

This is a cooperative jigsaw activity with specialists and homegroups. Print out information for each specialist group, Wanted Poster, and prepare short presentation of distribution maps.

Procedure

Engage

Explore

Explain

Elaborate

Evaluate

Assessment

Formative:

Summative:

Instuctional Materials

Wanted Poster and Distribution Maps

SSI_Spongy Moth Instructional Materials.docx

Specialist Roles

SSI_Spongy Moth Jigsaw Group Info.docx

Reflection Assignment and Rubric

SSI_Spongy Moth Reflection Assignment and Rubric.docx

Full Lesson Plan for Download

clarkeliza_SSI Lesson Plan-revised.docx