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Exploring Symbiosis Through Storytelling
Grade Level:
12
Subject:
SBI4U_Biology
Topic:
Exploring Symbiosis Through Storytelling
Population Dynamics - Species Interactions
Overall Expectation: F3 / Specific Expectation: F3.1 (OME, 2008, p. 86-87)
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In this lesson students will watch a short video depicting the Three Sisters Story. This story is an concrete example of how "living beings (like plants) function and interact with [each other and] their environment" (Reis & Harrison, 2011, p. 22-2.2). Through the use of stories, students will "explain the concepts of interaction (e.g., competition, predation, defence mechanism, symbiotic relationship, parasitic relationship) between different species" (OME, 2008, p. 87-F3.1).
This lesson is inspired by the Reis and Harrison article in the June 2011 edition of Interactions. The article titled: Making the Environment Personal: Storytelling as a Tool for Environmental Education, gives an excellent overview of how a teacher can engage their students through storytelling. Through storytelling, a teacher can guide students in turning seemingly difficult to grasp 'sciency-stuff', into clear and thought provoking content. This was an extremely appealing idea for me. I saw this as an opportunity to marry English, Indigenous Studies, and Biology to encourage students to see, not only the cross-curricular links, but more importantly the sociological and ecological ties that we can (and must) be cognizant of as responsible citizens.
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