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Creating STEM Lessons with the “Secret Ingredient”(7-12)

Creating STEM Lessons with the “Secret Ingredient”(7-12). Gail Dickinson gdickinson@madison-schools.com. Notes. www.GMSmavs.com Teachers/Gail Dickinson/SDE 2013. secret. Stem’s Ingredient. Iron Chef Video. Session Focus. Participants will

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Creating STEM Lessons with the “Secret Ingredient”(7-12)

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  1. Creating STEM Lessons with the “Secret Ingredient”(7-12) Gail Dickinson gdickinson@madison-schools.com

  2. Notes • www.GMSmavs.com • Teachers/Gail Dickinson/SDE 2013

  3. secret Stem’s Ingredient

  4. Iron Chef Video

  5. Session Focus Participants will • Design a meaningful lesson plan using a “special ingredient”. • Explore instructional strategies using “secret ingredients” as a focus. • Present their work to the class.

  6. How is this used in the classroom? • Check for prior knowledge • Assessment of understanding • Engaging activity for learning • Exploration

  7. The Engineering Process

  8. The Secret Ingredient is Cups This lesson is used after instruction as an assessment.

  9. Task/Lesson – Along Came a Spider • Participants will create an anatomically correct Arthropod using a plastic cup as the main ingredient. Participants may also use any of the items from the “junk’ box. Explore Pre-assessment Post-assessment

  10. Instructions • Students will work in groups of 3 • Design and build an Arthropod • Label the parts • Provide the function of each part – relating it to the survival to it’s environment • Present project to the class • Explain the adaptations • Answer questions

  11. Now it is your turn!

  12. Create a lesson to use in your classroom with your “secret ingredient”. • Your team will create a lesson plan/activity that uses a “Secret Ingredient” as the main focus. • Fill out the lesson plan sheet • Share your lesson plan/activity. Shhhhh!

  13. Secret Ingredient Gumballs

  14. You will have 20 minutes to create a meaningful STEM related lesson for your students using “Gumballs” as the main ingredient. • Fill out the lesson plan sheet. • Share your lesson with the class.

  15. Other Activities • Secret Ingredient is - beads • Create a lesson using colored plastic beads Lesson: Water cycle bracelet (DI – write a poem, song, perform, take pictures or create a PowerPoint presentation.) Math lesson – calculate your bracelet Math/Technology – estimation lesson

  16. Secret Ingredient is Crayons • Science: Demonstrate erosion and the rock cycle. • Math – Fractions – take out ? Number of crayons out of a box of 12 or 24

  17. Secret Ingredient is cotton • Create the 3 main types of clouds • Demonstrate saturation with cotton

  18. Other “Junk” Project-Based Lessons Design a simple machine • Have the machine perform a simple task • Join 2 or more simple machines together (from different groups) to make a compound machine.

  19. Survival of the Fittest • Parody of “Survivor” TV show, students will be provided with opportunities to solve problems of various “survivor”scenarios. • Examples: • Shelter • Make shift bedding • Tools – for eating, protection • Create a survival kit

  20. Now it is your turn!

  21. Demonstrate one of Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion using “junk”. Post-assessment Pre-assessment Explore

  22. You will have 20 minutes to demonstrate one of Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion using items from the “Junk” box. • DI- you may present your demonstration with- drawings, technology, song, poem, storytelling, movement, etc.

  23. Questions/Comments

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