COMMENTS REGARDING
OUTLINE OF
UNIT 8 LESSON 5

Teachers who purchase Discovering Life Science are provided the outline of this lesson, and all lessons of the book.

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For support in introducing outlining, please see the menu item

"OUTLINING INSTRUCTIONS."

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• To provide the rationale for this work (and to head off the question

"Why are we doing this"?), teachers might show the class the first 19 seconds

of my youtube video  "Why Teach Outlining?" . Students should notice that

outlining is a powerful tool that will help them in every subject. 

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• For a shorter challenge, teachers might assign students to outline only selected

   paragraphs of the lesson.

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This lesson's outline

This is among the most content-heavy lessons of the book. The outline is based

on approximately 2 pages of text and consumes 3 pages of regular-lined paper.

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Suggestions:

• To support the production of outlines of reasonable length, have students omit

   the information from the "Exploring Science / Historical Steps" section. 

• If students are to complete this lesson and produce an outline outside of class,

   allow one day for them to read the text and complete the review questions, and

   a second day to produce their outline.

• On the due date, allow a few minutes for students to compare their attempt to one

   that you provide - and to respond to their questions.

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