The following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for elementary or middle school students using this video in an English language arts or science lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.
What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?
Frame (ELA) As readers and viewers, we use information from multiple sources to help us understand texts. In this segment, it will be helpful for you to know about DNA and barcoding to understand what the scientists are doing. Discuss what you know about these topics. Share your knowledge with your peers. Collect information from each other.
Focus (ELA) Connect what you know about DNA and barcoding from other sources to what you hear in this segment about DNA and barcoding.
Follow Up (ELA) How did connecting what you already knew, what you learned from your peers and what you learned from this segment help you comprehend the segment? How can we use this experience as a comprehension strategy when we read and view texts?
Frame (SCI) What is DNA? What do you know about it?
Focus (SCI) How are these scientists using DNA to create something very important in the world of science?
Follow Up (SCI) What are the scientists trying to do? What are the potential uses of this universal DNA barcode library? Discuss the challenges associated with completing such a task. How might the scientists make this job easier to accomplish?