Teachers and TEI faculty members who participated in
the 24 January 2014 Unit 4 Grade 8 science webinar
heard and saw how Grade 8 concepts spiral from Grade
7 through Grade 9 and across the four strands under Living
Things and their Environment. Ms. Dulce O. Sebastian and
Mr. Michael B. Mantala, both writers of Unit 4 modules, were
the webinar‘s resource persons.
Mr. Mantala discussed the Unit 4 overview. He described
the storyline that connects the five modules, identified the
Grade 8 learning competencies targeted by each inquiry-based
activity in each module, and explained how the five modules
build on each other to achieve coherence across the four
recurring strands of parts and function, heredity: inheritance
and variation, biodiversity and evolution, and ecosystems.
In the module presentations that followed, both presenters
gave an overview of the module emphasizing the spiraling of
concepts, presented the big ideas, learning objectives, and
the rationale for the sequence of learning activities vis-a-vis
the learning objectives. They also gave tips and additional
resources for effectively facilitating the activities in class, and
talked about possible issues and ways to address them. Ms. Sebastian discussed Module 1 (Biodiversity) and Module 2
(Interactions), while Mr. Mantala discussed Module 3 (The
Digestive System), Module 4 (Nutrition and Wellness), and
Module 5 (Cellular Reproduction and Genetics).
A recording of the webinar may be accessed at http://engageteachers.adobeconnect.com/p57jo2swts8/.
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