This reading strategy should be used with the first page of the Fish and Physics website to assess student prior knowledge of the new content. This activity is used to establish a purpose for reading and to help students reframe their thinking when necessary. The anticipation guide focuses on the life cycle of striped bass, the nursery area/ETM, and the physics of the ETM.
Teacher Note: The Anticipation Guide will take approximately 10 minutes for students to read the statements, decide if they are true or false and then survey the class with hand signals to get a feel for what they already know about the content. Students investigate the "Learn About” page on the web resource and revisit the Anticipation Guide, correcting their answers. This will take approximately 20 minutes once students are logged onto computers.
Objectives
- Establish a purpose for reading
- Assess prior knowledge
- Reframe student thinking as necessary
- Students will examine a website to evaluate their knowledge of striped bass
- Students develop strategies to guide their reading
Materials
- Access to Fish and Physics Learn About web page
- Anticipation Guide (available in Lesson Resources, below)
Procedure
- Have students read the series of statements about striped bass prior to investigating the "Learn About" page of the education module on the website.
- The student will indicate whether they think the statement is true or false based on their prior knowledge of the subject matter.
- Once students have completed the anticipation guide, read each question out loud, having each student use a signal response of thumbs up for true and thumbs down for false to visually survey the student’s prior knowledge about striped bass and their environment.
- Allow students to work in pairs investigating the content of the “Learn About” page.
- When students are finished reading the information, have students revisit their anticipation guide, correcting any answers they may have gotten wrong initially.
National Science Education Standards
9-12 A: Science as Inquiry
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
9-12 B: Physical Science
- Interactions of energy and matter
9-12 C: Life Science
- Interdependence of organisms
- Matter, energy, and organization in living systems
- Behavior of organisms
9-12 F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
- Environmental quality
- Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges
9-12 G: History and Nature of Science
- Nature of scientific knowledge
Striped Bass Anticipation Guide