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Discover the secret ingredient formula for STEM lesson success with engaging activities and creative assessments for hands-on learning opportunities. Participants explore instructional strategies and design meaningful lesson plans to enhance student comprehension and engagement. The focus is on integrating unique elements like gumballs, beads, crayons, and cotton into innovative lessons touching on subjects from science and math to survival scenarios and Newton's Laws of Motion. Join the STEM adventure today!
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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
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.
How is this used in the classroom? • Check for prior knowledge • Assessment of understanding • Engaging activity for learning • Exploration
The Secret Ingredient is Cups This lesson is used after instruction as an assessment.
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
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
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!
Secret Ingredient Gumballs
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.
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
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
Secret Ingredient is cotton • Create the 3 main types of clouds • Demonstrate saturation with cotton
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.
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
Demonstrate one of Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion using “junk”. Post-assessment Pre-assessment Explore
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.
