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Recently, my students gave me one of those golden moments in teaching. Allow me to set the stage.
We were over six weeks into a project-based life science unit in which students apply systems-thinking to closely examine the inner workings of a body system and relate that system to others as a subsystem. The set of standards housing our work is juicy with Crosscutting Concepts and ripe with potential for Science and Engineering Practices. We began the unit exploring how cells themselves, a structure students often initially perceive as an end-all-be-all baseline to life, are instead a very complex system of subsystems. That particular day, students were outlining components of their selected body system in preparation for writing a podcast.
