Our current ideas, not notes: It can be valuable to underscore that the point is to gather a set of ideas about each topics as a starting place. So elicit for multiple viewpoints on each. Encourage students to add peers’ ideas to their own chart. Might consider eliciting which ideas they chose to add and why.

Talk Stems: Both Science Talk stems and Teacher Talk Stems For Supporting Metacognitive Conversation might be useful support for eliciting students’ thinking. Both documents can be found through the box.com link.

Formative assessment of student content knowledge: This is an opportunity to note student conceptions and misconceptions about bacteria, resistance, evolution etc. Based on this, you can identify ideas in the upcoming texts for deliberate attention.