Science and Life Issues (SALI)
Teacher's Guide Table of Contents
Introduction
Unit A Studying People
Solving Problems: Save Fred!
View and Reflect: The Pellagra Story
Investigation: Testing Medicines: A Clinical Trial
Reading: Testing Medicines Scientifically
Laboratory: Can You Feel the Differnce?
Reading: Finding the Nerve
Laboratory: Human Variation
Reading: Studying People
Laboratory: Data Toss
Talking It Over: Evaluating Clinical Trials
Unit B Body Works
Talking It Over: Sick Day
Investigation: What’s Happening Inside?
Role Play: Living With Your Liver
Laboratory: Breakdown
Reading: Digestion: An Absorbing Tale
Investigation: Balancing Act
Laboratory: Gas Exchange
Modeling: The Circulation Game
Investigation: Heart-ily Fit
Role Play: Great-Aunt Lily’s Will
Laboratory: Inside a Pump
Laboratory: The Heart: A Muscle
Reading: Heart Parts
Laboratory: Round and Round
View and Reflect: Healing the Heart
Investigation: Heart Sounds
Laboratory: The Pressure’s On
Reading: Heart Problems
Project: Helping Hearts
Unit C Micro-Life
Modeling: It’s Catching!
Project: The Range of Disease
Investigation: Who Infected Whom?
View and Reflect: From One to Another
Talking It Over: The Story of Leprosy
Laboratory: A License to Learn
Laboratory: Looking for Signs of Micro-Life
Role Play: The History of the Germ Theory of Disease
Laboratory: Microbes, Plants, and You:
Laboratory: Cells Alive!
Modeling: A Cell Model
Modeling: A Cell So Small
Reading: A Closer Look
Laboratory: Microbes Under View
Investigation: Who’s Who?
Reading: The World of Microbes
Investigation: Disease Fighters
Laboratory: Reducing Risk
Investigation: Wash Your Hands, Please!
Role Play: An Ounce of Prevention
View and Reflect: Fighting Back
Modeling: The Full Course
Talking It Over: Miracle Drugs—Or Not?
Investigation: Modern Outbreaks
Unit D Our Genes, Our Selves
Investigation: Investigating Human Traits
Laboratory: Plants Have Genes, Too!
View and reflect: Joe’s Dilemma
Reading: Copycat
Modeling: Creature Features
Investigation: Gene Combo
Reading: Mendel, First Geneticist
Problem solving: Gene Squares
Laboratory: Analyzing Genetic Data
Reading: Show Me the Genes!
Laboratory: Nature and Nurture
Investigation: Breeding Critters—More Traits
Problem solving: Patterns in Pedigrees
Talking it over: What Would You Do?
Investigation: Searching for the Lost Children
Modeling: Evidence from DNA
Investigation: Finding the Lost Children
Talking it over: Should We?
Unit E Ecology
Talking it over: The Miracle Fish?
Project: Introduced Species
Laboratory: Observing Organisms
Investigation: Classifying Animals
Investigation: People, Birds, Bats
Investigation: Ups and Downs
Laboratory: Coughing Up Clues
Reading: Eating for Energy
Laboratory: Nature’s Recyclers
Laboratory: A Producer’s Source of Energy
Laboratory: The Cells of Producers
Laboratory: A Suitable Habitat
Modeling: Clam Catch
Reading: Is There Room for One More?
Field study: Taking a Look Outside
Talking it over: Too Many Mussels?
Project: Presenting the Facts
Unit F Evolution
Talking It Over: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Laboratory: Figuring Out Fossils
Investigation: Fossilized Footprints
Modeling: Time for Change
Investigation: Reading the Rocks
Role play: A Meeting of Minds
Modeling: Hiding in the Background
Modeling: Battling Beaks
Reading: Origins of Species
Investigation: Family Histories
Investigation: A Whale of a Tale
Investigation: DNA: The Evidence Within
Talking it over: Birds of a Feather?
Unit G Using Tools and Ideas
Investigation: You, An Investor?
Reading: From Disability to Ability
Project: Designing Artificial Heart Valves
Project: Designing Artificial Bones
Laboratory: Investigating Natural Structures
Talking it over: Technology and the Life Sciences
Project: Getting a Hold on Design
Appendices
A Scoring Guides for Science and Life Issues
B Materials Not Included in Kit
C Resources
D Facilitating Group Interaction
E Literacy and Communication
F Using GenScope®
G Evolution in Science and Life Issues
H Item Bank
I SALI and the National Science Education Standards
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