2.3.Back-pocket questions: Connection to the big idea

1. Warm-up. What are some ways fungi affect you?
2. Students read background information & make sense of the information. Teacher circulates and asks students to make sense of the information they read on the back side of the picture packets from the previous day.

Students answer the following questions in their notebooks Activity 43: A not so Fun(gi) world:
A. What roles do fungi play in the world?
B. What types of organisms are affected by fungi? Cite several specific examples.
They are also prompted to use the information to revise any of their responses to the worksheet from the previous day.
She also asks 2 key back pocket questions:

• Did fungi cause the rotting or do the fungi grow on rotting things?
• If fungi dont move, what might they need energy for?
3. Optional challenge. For homework students can opt to do challenge problems: a) to further research fungi and their roles in a particular habitat (i.e. their back yard, North Cascade Mountain range, etc.) and b) to draw what this environment would look like if there were no fungi present.

Discussion Questions: 1) Which concepts has Janet chosen to build first? Why? 2) What issues of academic language surface in this lesson?