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IT’S ALIVE??

IT’S ALIVE??. or is it???. Are viruses alive ? How can you tell if something is alive? What would your evidence be or look like?. VIRUS PROJECT . Objectives: Identify and describe the key characteristics of living things

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IT’S ALIVE??

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  1. IT’S ALIVE??

  2. or is it??? • Are viruses alive ? • How can you tell if something is alive? • What would your evidence be or look like?

  3. VIRUS PROJECT • Objectives: • Identify and describe the key characteristics of living things • Determine whether viruses are alive or not using the characteristics of living things that we have been investigating • Produce a Sci-(non)-fi movie poster describing your decision as to whether viruses are alive or not.

  4. Now What? • Now you know what makes something alive so…. • Time to research viruses!

  5. Collect more data!!!!! • Do more research (textbook and internet). • Research the characteristics of viruses • Design and conduct experiments • Sorry, this one’s out for obvious reasons! • Discuss and communicate with other scientists studying similar questions. • Read other scientists’ evidence and conclusions about viruses • Discuss with other students

  6. Enough data?? • Okay, so you have come to a conclusion as to whether viruses are living or nonliving. • Now your scientific knowledge must be published (communicated) for other scientists to analyze or test. Scientific information is public! • How do you do that for this assignment?

  7. POSTER!!!!!! Create a “MOVIE POSTER”

  8. Criteria • Create a Movie Poster, Movie Trailer, or 5–panel comic strip Which is: • Creative and eyecatching. • A PLOT SYNOPSIS THAT Clearly demonstrates your position on whether viruses are alive or not. • Shows artwork relevant to the topic • Clearly describes the evidence (minimum of 4 pieces of evidence) on which you based your position • “because Henrietta Higgenbotham said…” is NOT evidence! • Has 4 references (minimum!) • 2 internet • 2 textbooks

  9. References • Recorded (format) just like for any research paper • Two from textbooks • Two from Internet sources • These are minimum, may have more • List references on back of poster

  10. Reflection • Answer the Type III essay question that accompanies this project.

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