MultiMedia Tools

Lesson Idea Name: Antibiotic Resistance Audio

Content Area: Biology
Grade Level(s): 9-12
Content Standard Addressed:

SB6. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to assess the theory of evolution.

e. Develop a model to explain the role natural selection plays in causing biological resistance
(e.g., pesticides, antibiotic resistance, and influenza vaccines).

Technology Standard Addressed:

3.Knowledge Constructor- Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct
knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

3c Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create
collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
3d Students build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and
theories and pursuing answers and solutions.

Selected Technology Tool:

Movie (list application):
Audio (list application): Audacity
Other: (list)

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): cikerd.edublogs.org

Blooms Taxonomy Level(s):

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

Level 1: Awareness Level 2: Exploration Level 3: Infusion Level 4: Integration
Level 5: Expansion Level 6: Refinement

Lesson idea implementation: The lesson follows a flipped classroom approach. An audio file was uploaded
to the classroom blog with instructions for an assignment the students must complete before the next class.
The assignment asks student to think of ideas about how organisms are able to survive in their specific
environments. A special focus was placed on bacteria and how they have become resistant to antibiotics.
This assignment will be given to students before a unit on evolution and natural selection begins.
Students will have almost no prior knowledge of the process of natural selection and will need to think
deeply to formulate ideas on how bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics. Students will be informally
assessed based on their participation in a class discussion the next day in class. A video on antibiotic
resistance was also created to show to students after the class discussion takes place. The video will introduce
the topic of resistance and the teacher will then go into direct instruction on the Theory of Evolution and
Darwins Theory of Natural Selection.

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Students will then be given class time to create a podcast explaining natural selection and how it affects
speciation. Students will need to provide specific real-world examples of speciation that has occurred.
Podcasts will be played during class and will be graded based on presentation, creativity, and content. The
lesson will end when all the students podcasts are presented.

Importance of technology: The use of technology, the blog and audio file, extended the classroom to outside
the walls of the school. The assignment and discussion could have possibly done during class time, but would
have taken time away from instruction.

Inspiration (optional):

Internet Safety and Student Privacy: Student privacy will not be an issue as student creation will only be used
in the classroom and will not be shared online. The teacher will make sure the student work does not get into
the wrong hands when the students share their work.
Other comments about your proposed student multimedia authoring activity:

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