If you read my previous post you're aware that on Wednesday I had a lab where 6th graders looked at protists and yeast cells. On Friday we were checking a study guide with questions about cells. One of the questions was, "About 350 years ago Anton van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to do what?"
We check the questions through a game I call "CHALLENGE !!" A team calls on a member of another team to give their answer to a specific question. If the person gets it right their team gets 2 points. If they miss it the team that called on them can CHALLENGE !! (A proper challenge involves the entire team on the count of 3 firmly and decisively in unison pulling down their right fist and saying CHALLENGE!! ) If a team challenges a wrong answer and gives the right answer they get 2 points for the challenge and 2 for the right answer. Teams that agree with a right answer get 1 point. (Challenging a right answer will lose your team 2 points.)
Anyway, the person called on gave the right answer to the van Leeuwenhoek question - "He was the first peron to see a single celled organism."
I then asked the class how many of them had ever seen a single celled organism. I know we didn't have science on Thursday and from Wednesday to Friday is a long time. And granted on Wednesday 3 of the 5 teams had a hard time finding any protists, but they all saw plenty of yeast cells.
Out of a class of 19 how many hands would you guess went up? .... 2.....
Sometimes it makes you just want to cry.
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