Flipped Mitosis Lesson

The flipped lesson was a challenge for me, i have had classes where this has been used but i was always on the learning end of it. It took me a long time to decide what i wanted the lesson to be about and then how to execute it. I kept going back and forth on whether i should show a video and talk over it or do pictures and describe the process. I decided to go with the pictures because i thought it would be easier to follow along as i explained. Finally, i chose to explain the process of mitosis. As a follow up i asked the students to draw each step, because from personal experience you learn something better when you have to re-draw it yourself instead of looking at the pictures. When they come to class the next day with the drawings i will ask them to write a description of each drawing or step which will help the students put the pictures and whats happening together as a process, and then we will look at an animated video of the process occurring. When the students have understood the process, we will look at slides under a microscope to see what the chromosomes look like after they have reached Cytokinesis and have been stained for observation which will relate the process to real life. After that, i will begin with the next sequence which is meiosis.