Look for: See the sample responses shown above

6.A Analyze and interpret observational data in the microscopic structures of skin, bone, and muscle, relating those structures to the functions of those parts of the body.

See the sample responses shown above.

When using the Progress Tracker as a formative assessment opportunity, recall that it should not be scored or graded. You are simply checking to see if your students were able to summarize the main takeaways from today’s work and then directing your instruction accordingly. If students struggled to refer to patterns they saw in their investigation data to support their ideas about structures and functions, you may choose to have them use a copy of Microscopic Images: Muscle, Bone, and Skin and annotate it to highlight the repeating structures they see. Ask them to describe those structures and/or patterns in words. Then, refer back to the Parts of a Body poster and connect those descriptions to what the class figured out about the functions of the bones, skin, and muscles.

Conclude today’s work and look ahead to next time. Display slide K. Ask students to turn to the next blank page in their notebook and reflect on how using different scales has helped them figure out more about the structure and function of the different parts of the body we have been investigating. If any new questions have been raised today, be sure to add them to the Driving Question Board. Then say something like, Now that we have figured out what makes up the different parts of the foot system so that they can function correctly, let’s go back to our How the Foot Heals Over Time? Timeline next time and capture what we have figured out there.