# Slides 3.4: Heredity, Environment, and Who I Am Becoming, and the Lifespan Stages Quiz Slide outline for Lesson 3.4, two days. Slides 1 to 12 are Day 1. Slides 13 to 22 are Day 2: the Lifespan Lightning review game and the quiz. The influences map is private; slide 8 says so and Sal says so twice. ## Slide 1: Heredity, Environment, and Who I Am Becoming - Lesson 3.4, Day 1: Growing Across the Lifespan - Unit 3: Growing Up, Getting Along - Do now: Heredity means what you were born with. Environment means everything around you. Write H, E, or both: (1) your eye color, (2) how good you are at math, (3) whether you like spicy food Notes: Hands for each. Eye color gets H. Math and spicy food split the room. That split is the lesson. ## Slide 2: Most of you is "both" - Eye color: born with it - Math: born with some of it; the rest is who taught you and how often you practiced - Spicy food: born with a tongue; the kitchen you grew up in did the rest - Today: how much of you is which, and who did it Image: a plain figure with two arrows pointing in, one labeled "heredity" and one labeled "environment." ## Slide 3: Heredity - Passed from your biological parents through genes - Your height range - Eye and hair color - Some health risks (allergies run in families) - Some of your temperament (the raw material of shy or outgoing) Image: a simple family tree with three generations, no names. Notes: Students copy the definition onto Part 1. ## Slide 4: Environment - Everything and everyone around you since birth - Family, home, food, sleep - School, friends, language, neighborhood - Screens, money, luck - Everything on yesterday's list of what a child needs Notes: Students copy the definition. ## Slide 5: The honest part - Almost every trait is both - Height: inherited range; food and sleep decide where in the range you land - Temperament: inherited; the people around you teach you what to do with it - Your first language: born able to learn any language; got the one in the house Notes: The first language example fixes the "everything is heredity" mistake fastest. Use it again in the check. ## Slide 6: The everyday sort - Ten items on Part 1. Pairs. H, E, or B - Eye color, height, your accent, being ticklish, liking a certain music - Being shy or outgoing, being good at drawing, your first language, a food allergy, how you handle losing - Write a reason for three. 8 minutes Notes: Grade 6 does six items. ## Slide 7: The reveal - H: eye color - E: accent, first language, how you handle losing (mostly), liking a certain music (mostly) - B: height, ticklish, shy or outgoing, good at drawing, a food allergy - If you had a good reason for a different letter, keep it and write the reason Notes: Thumbs: up for eight or more. Whiteboard: "H, E, or B for 'your first language'?" E is the got-it answer. ## Slide 8: My influences map - A circle in the middle: me - Three rings: people, places, things - At least eight influences. No names; use roles ("a coach," "my aunt") - Label each with the aspect it shaped most: P, E, S, I - Star the three biggest - This page is yours. It goes in your folder. Nobody reads it unless you want them to Image: the blank map from the handout. Notes: Say the privacy line now and again when you collect Part 3. ## Slide 9: A fictional example - People: a coach (P), a grandmother (S), a fourth-grade teacher (I) - Places: a kitchen (S), a basketball court (P), a library (I) - Things: a bike (P), a language (I), a phone (E) - Stars: the grandmother, the court, the language Notes: This is a made-up map. Model how a role replaces a name. ## Slide 10: Build yours - 13 minutes - If the rings are too small, use the table on the handout - Grade 6 and IEP/504: at least five - When you are done: which one influence has done the most to make you who you are? Notes: Circulate to check for eight entries and letters, not content. ## Slide 11: Share by choice, then Part 3 - Anyone want to share one influence and one aspect? No names - Then Part 3: the biggest one. Three sentences: what it is (a role), what aspect it shaped, why it beat the other two stars - Part 3 is the only thing I collect Notes: Take three volunteers. Sentence starter: "The biggest influence on me is ___ because ___." ## Slide 12: Exit card and tomorrow - 3 things about you that are mostly environment - 2 that are mostly heredity - 1 influence you want more of next year - Tomorrow: Lifespan Lightning, then the Lifespan Stages Quiz (15 minutes, 12 items, no notes) Notes: Two students read their "1" by choice. ## Slide 13: Day 2: Lifespan Lightning and the quiz - Do now: write the seven stages in order without looking. Then write what object permanence means - Then: four rounds of Lifespan Lightning, teams of four, one whiteboard each - Then: the quiz, last 15 minutes Notes: Put the board timeline up after they write. ## Slide 14: How Lifespan Lightning works - Draw a card or hear a question. Write the answer on the whiteboard. Hold it up at "boards up" - One point per right board - Anything half the room misses, we fix right then - Four rounds: stages, milestones, myth or fact, heredity or environment Notes: Score on the board. Keep it moving; 17 minutes for four rounds. ## Slide 15: Round 1: stages (the 21 cards) - A card is read aloud (described in words) - Write the stage - Six cards, one per team turn Notes: Use the close-call cards (8, 13, 15, 20) on purpose. ## Slide 16: Round 2: milestones - Most babies sit without help at about ___ months - Most babies walk at about ___ months - A baby searches for a hidden toy at about ___ months. What is that called? - Two-word sentences arrive at about ___ years - Pretend play starts at about ___ years - A 10-month-old cries when a parent leaves the room. Good sign or bad sign? Notes: Answers: 6; 12 to 15; 8 to 12, object permanence; 2; 2 to 3; good sign. ## Slide 17: Round 3: myth or fact - Teenagers need less sleep than younger children - The braking part of the brain keeps building into the mid 20s - Mood swings usually mean something is wrong - Everyone the same age should be at the same point - Risks feel bigger and more exciting now than they will later - Taking risks is always bad Notes: M, F, M, M, F, M. ## Slide 18: Round 4: heredity or environment - Eye color - Your accent - Height - Your first language - Being shy or outgoing - Two siblings, same house, different personalities: possible or impossible? Notes: H, E, B, E, B, possible (different friends, birth order, treatment, choices). ## Slide 19: Fix-it minute - Anything half the room missed goes here - [Sal: leave blank; fill from the game] Notes: Thirty seconds per fix. Then the quiz. ## Slide 20: The quiz - Desks clear. Influences map in the folder - 12 items. 15 minutes. No notes - Word banks are on the page - Item 12 uses a card described in words - Fill the exit line at the bottom before you hand it in Notes: Read the directions aloud. Start the timer. ## Slide 21: Accommodations reminder (for the teacher; not shown) - Read aloud on request - Item 12 may be answered orally - Extended time into tomorrow's do now, or the quiet room - Bilingual dictionary allowed Notes: Hide this slide when presenting. ## Slide 22: Next week - Topic 3.2: self-concept, friends, and stress - Bring the influences map. It comes back - Nothing about you gets shared out loud unless you choose Notes: Say this after the quiz is collected, in the last minute.