Adolescent sleep
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A lesson plan for Grades 9–12 Biology and AP Biology
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- Appropriate grades
- 9–12
- Subjects
- science (biology and life science)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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The purpose of this lesson is to discuss, summarize, and express alternative positions regarding a study on adolescent sleep. There are certain thinking skills associated with science, mathematics, and technology that young people need to develop during their school years. The ideas in the central benchmark emphasize the need for education to prepare students to make their way in the real world, a world in which problems abound in the home, in the workplace, in the community, on the planet. Moreover, in their interactions with society, science and technology create the context for many personal and community issues.
In this lesson, students will also examine arguments for and against changing the school start time for high school students, based upon the findings of a scientific research study.
This lesson plan doesn't meet any content standards but works well to meet skills objectives. It is also of high interest to teen-agers, because it relates to them.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grades 9–12 — Advanced Placement Biology
- Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry.
- Objective 1.03: Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence to:
- Explain observations.
- Make inferences and predictions.
- Explain the relationship between evidence and explanation.
- Objective 1.05: Analyze reports of scientific investigations from an informed scientifically literate viewpoint including considerations of:
- Appropriate sample.
- Adequacy of experimental controls.
- Replication of findings.
- Alternative interpretations of the data.
- Objective 1.03: Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence to:
Grades 9–12 — Biology
- Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry.
- Objective 1.03: Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models of biological phenomena using logic and evidence to:
- Explain observations.
- Make inferences and predictions.
- Explain the relationship between evidence and explanation.
- Objective 1.05: Analyze reports of scientific investigations from an informed, scientifically literate viewpoint including considerations of:
- Appropriate sample.
- Adequacy of experimental controls.
- Replication of findings.
- Alternative interpretations of the data.
- Objective 1.03: Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models of biological phenomena using logic and evidence to:
