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Creating STEM Lessons with the “Secret Ingredient”(7-12)
Gail Dickinsongdickinson@madison-
schools.com
Notes• www.GMSmavs.com• Teachers/Gail Dickinson/SDE
2013
Stem’s Ingredient
secret
Iron Chef Video
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 Engineering Process
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.
Pre-assessment
Explore 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
Now it is your turn!
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.
• 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
Survival of the Fittest
Now it is your turn!
Demonstrate one of Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion using “junk”.
Pre-assessment
Explore Post-assessment
• 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.