IT’S ALIVE??

or is it???

• Are viruses alive ?– How can you tell if

something is alive?– What would your evidence

be or look like?

VIRUS PROJECT

• Objectives: – Identify and describe the key characteristics of living

things

– Determine whether viruses are alive or not using the characteristics of living things that we have been investigating

– Produce a Sci-(non)-fi movie poster describing your decision as to whether viruses are alive or not.

Now What?

• Now you know what makes something alive so….

• Time to research viruses!

Collect more data!!!!!

• Do more research (textbook and internet).– Research the characteristics of viruses

• Design and conduct experiments – Sorry, this one’s out for obvious reasons!

• Discuss and communicate with other scientists studying similar questions.– Read other scientists’ evidence and conclusions about

viruses– Discuss with other students

Enough data??

• Okay, so you have come to a conclusion as to whether viruses are living or nonliving.

• Now your scientific knowledge must be published (communicated) for other scientists to analyze or test. Scientific information is public!

• How do you do that for this assignment?

POSTER!!!!!!• Create a “MOVIE

POSTER”

Criteria

• Create a Movie Poster, Movie Trailer, or 5–panel comic strip Which is:– Creative and eyecatching.– A PLOT SYNOPSIS THAT Clearly demonstrates

your position on whether viruses are alive or not.– Shows artwork relevant to the topic– Clearly describes the evidence (minimum of 4 pieces

of evidence) on which you based your position• “because Henrietta Higgenbotham said…” is NOT evidence!

– Has 4 references (minimum!)• 2 internet• 2 textbooks

References

• Recorded (format) just like for any research paper

• Two from textbooks

• Two from Internet sources

• These are minimum, may have more

• List references on back of poster

Reflection

• Answer the Type III essay question that accompanies this project.