REAL WORLD SCIENCE The Respiratory & Circulatory Systems

1 Copyright 2002 AIMS Multimedia The Respiratory & Circulatory Systems #2641 The Respiratory & Circulatory SystemsINTRODUCTION TO THE AIMS TEACHING MODULE (ATM)Rationale ..2 Organization and Management ..2 Features ..3 INTRODUCING The Respiratory & Circulatory SystemsJump Right In ..5 Themes ..6 Overview ..6 Objectives ..6 PREPARATION FOR VIEWINGI ntroduction to the Program ..6 Introduction to Vocabulary ..6 Discussion Ideas ..6 Focus ..6 AFTER VIEWING THE PROGRAMS uggested Activities ..7 Vocabulary ..9 Comprehension-Short Answer ..10 Blood-An Amazing Substance ..11 True or False ..12 Its All Greek (or Latin) to Me ..13Go With the Flow ..14In With the Good Air, Out With the Bad ..15 Have a Heart-Just for Fun ..16 Word Search ..17 Test ..18 ADDITIONAL AIMS MULTIMEDIA PROGRAMS ..20 ANSWER KEYS ..21 real WORLD SCIENCE Copyright 2002 AIMS Multimedia The Respiratory & Circulatory Systems #26412 Congratulations!

2 You have chosen a learning program that will actively motivate your students and provide you with easily accessible and easily manageableinstructional guidelines and tools designed to make your teaching role efficient and AIMS Teaching Module (ATM) provides you with a video program correlated to your classroom curriculum, instructions and guidelines foruse, plus a comprehensive teaching program containing a wide range of activities and ideas for interaction between all content areas. Ourauthors, educators, and consultants have written and reviewed the AIMS Teaching Modules to align with the Educate America Act: Goals ATM, with its clear definition of manageability, both in the classroom and beyond, allows you to tailor specific activities to meet all of yourclassroom Teaching Module written by Patricia A. Peirson Copyright 2002 AIMS MultimediaAll Rights Reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted without written permission of AIMS Multimedia with these exceptions: Persons or schools purchasing thisAIMS Teaching Modulemay reproduce consumable ATMpages, identified in Section 4, for student or classroom Multimedia is a leading producer and distributor of educational programs serving schools and libraries since 1957.

3 AIMS draws upon the most up-to-date knowledge, existingand emerging technologies, and all of the instructional and pedagogical resources available to develop and distribute educational programs in videocassette and or schools interested in obtaining additional copies of this AIMS Teaching Module, please contact:AIMS Multimedia at:Toll Free: 1-800-367-2467 Fax: 818-341-6700 Web: : today s classrooms, educational pedagogy is often founded onBenjamin S. Bloom s Six Levels of Cognitive Complexity. Thepractical application of Bloom s Taxonomy is to evaluate students thinking skills on these levels, from the simple to the complex: 1. Knowledge (rote memory skills), 2. Comprehension (the ability to relate or retell), 3. Application (the ability to apply knowledge outside its origin), 4. Analysis (relating and differentiating parts of a whole), 5.

4 Synthesis (relating parts to a whole)6. Evaluation (making a judgment or formulating an opinion).The AIMS Teaching Module is designed to facilitate these intellectualcapabilities, and to integrate classroom experiences and assimilationof learning with the students life experiences, realities, andexpectations. AIMS learner verification studies prove that our AIMST eaching Modules help students to absorb, retain, and to demonstrateability to use new knowledge in their WORLD . Our educationalmaterials are written and designed for today s classroom, whichincorporates a wide range of intellectual, cultural, physical, andemotional AND MANAGEMENTTo facilitate ease in classroom manageability, the AIMS TeachingModule is organized in three sections:I. Introducing this ATM will give you the specific information you need to integrate theprogram into your classroom Preparation for Viewing provides suggestions and strategies for motivation, languagepreparedness, readiness, and focus prior to viewing the programwith your After Viewing the Program provides suggestions for additional activities plus an assortment ofconsumable assessment and extended activities, designed to broadencomprehension of the topic and to make connections to othercurriculum content areas.

5 Copyright 2002 AIMS Multimedia The Respiratory & Circulatory Systems #26413 FEATURESINTRODUCING THE ATM Your AIMS Teaching Module is designed toaccompany a video program written andproduced by some of the WORLD s mostcredible and creative writers and producersof educational programming. To facilitatediversity and flexibility in your classroomand to provide assessment tools, your AIMST eaching Module features these components:ThemesThis section tells how the AIMS TeachingModule is correlated to the offers suggestions for interactionwith other curriculum content areas,enabling teachers to use the teachingmodule to incorporate the topic into avariety of learning Overview provides a synopsis of contentcovered in the video program. Its purpose isto give you a summary of the subject matterand to enhance your ATM learning objectives provideguidelines for teachers to assess whatlearners can be expected to gain from eachprogram.

6 After completion of the AIMST eaching Module, your students will be ableto demonstrate dynamic and appliedcomprehension of the topic. Preparation for ViewingIn preparation for viewing the videoprogram, the AIMS Teaching Module offersactivity and/or discussion ideas that youmay use in any order or To The ProgramIntroduction to the Program is designed toenable students to recall or relate priorknowledge about the topic and to preparethem for what they are about to To VocabularyIntroduction to Vocabulary is a review oflanguage used in the program: words,phrases, and usage. This vocabularyintroduction is designed to ensure that alllearners, including limited Englishproficiency learners, will have fullunderstanding of the language usage in thecontent of the IdeasDiscussion Ideas are designed to help youassess students prior knowledge about thetopic and to give students a preview of whatthey will learn.

7 Active discussion stimulatesinterest in a subject and can motivate eventhe most reluctant learner. Listening, as wellas speaking, is active your students to participate at therate they feel comfortable. Model sharingpersonal experiences when applicable, andmodel listening to students ideas learners set a purpose for watching theprogram with Focus, designed to givestudents a focal point for Right InJump Right In provides abbreviatedinstructions for quick management of Viewing the ProgramAfter your students have viewed theprogram, you may introduce any or all ofthese activities to interact with othercurriculum content areas, providereinforcement, assess comprehension skills,or provide hands-on and in-depth extendedstudy of the topic. Copyright 2002 AIMS Multimedia The Respiratory & Circulatory Systems #26414 SUGGESTED ACTIVITIESThe Suggested Activities offer ideas foractivities you can direct in the classroom orhave your students complete independently,in pairs, or in small work groups after theyhave viewed the program.

8 To accommodateyour range of classroom needs, the activitiesare organized into skills categories. Theirlabels will tell you how to identify eachactivity and help you correlate it into yourclassroom curriculum. To help you scheduleyour classroom lesson time, the AIMS hourglass gives you an estimate of the timeeach activity should require. Some of theactivities fall into these categories:Meeting Individual NeedsThese activities are designedto aid in classroom learners andlearners acquiring Englishwill benefit from theseactivities geared to enhance comprehensionof language in order to fully grasp ConnectionsMany of the suggestedactivities are intended tointegrate the content of theATM program into othercontent areas of theclassroom curriculum. These cross-connections turn the classroom teachingexperience into a whole Thinking Critical Thinking activities aredesigned to stimulatelearners own opinions andideas.

9 These activities require students to usethe thinking process to discern fact fromopinion, consider their own problems andformulate possible solutions, drawconclusions, discuss cause and effect, orcombine what they already know with whatthey have learned to make inferences. Cultural Diversity Each AIMS Teaching Modulehas an activity called CulturalAwareness, Cultural Diversity,or Cultural Exchange that encouragesstudents to share their backgrounds,cultures, heritage, or knowledge of othercountries, customs, and OnThese are experimental ortactile activities that relatedirectly to the material taughtin the program. Your studentswill have opportunities to make discoveriesand formulate ideas on their own, based onwhat they learn in this AIMS Teaching Modulewill contain an activitydesigned for students to usethe writing process to expresstheir ideas about what they have writing activity may also help them tomake the connection between what they arelearning in this unit and how it applies toother content The NewsroomEach AIMS Teaching Modulecontains a newsroom activitydesigned to help students make therelationship between what they learn in theclassroom and how it applies in their purpose of In The Newsroom is toactively involve each class member in awhole learning experience.

10 Each student willhave an opportunity to perform all of thetasks involved in production: writing,researching, producing, directing, andinterviewing as they create their ownclassroom news ActivitiesThese activities provideopportunities for students towork separately or together toconduct further research,explore answers to their own questions, orapply what they have learned to othermedia or content areas. Link to the WORLD These activities offer ideasfor connecting learners classroom activities to theircommunity and the rest of the ActivityTo wrap up the unit, AIMST eaching Modules offersuggestions for ways toreinforce what students havelearned and how they can use their newknowledge to enhance their Copyright 2002 AIMS Multimedia The Respiratory & Circulatory Systems #2641 ADDITIONAL ATM FEATURESV ocabularyEvery ATM contains an activity thatreinforces the meaning and usage of thevocabulary words introduced in theprogram content.