This 4 minute video shows the type of activity challenges students to critically think and expand their thinking so that they can make the intended connections. Students’ ability or inability to make the connection is a useful formative assessment.
This warm-up allows students to use information that they know and apply it to a seemingly dissimilar example. This type of activity challenges them to critically think and expand their thinking so that they can make the intended connections. Students’ ability or inability to make the connection is a useful formative assessment.
Listen for correct associations based on the characteristics of viruses that were taught in Viruses, part 1. Also take this opportunity to contrast the characteristics of viruses with those of living things.