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Attitude-related Assignment: Monthly, classes will participate in a lesson about various STEM professionals. During the lessons, students will learn about STEM careers via videos, Skype, interviews, guest speakers, or trade books. Each lesson will include a writing component appropriate to the grade level.
By presenting a variety of STEM professions throughout the year, student interest in careers with which they were previously unaware may be sparked. Learning about successful professionals, along with their methods and struggles, should help students understand the roles of effort and attitude in STEM.
Course Work-related/Project Implementation-related Assignment: The project will be embedded within the course work throughout the year.
Go Outside!
For each major concept in math, students will develop a video or poster demonstrating how the concepts apply to their lives. They will also participate in a “reality store” as a way to use large numbers in a realistic context.
In science, students will participate in daily lessons and reading to prepare for the biocube field trips. They will also complete follow up assignments to demonstrate understanding of the standards they were covering during the trips. As the cube will not be visited each month, students will complete assignments based on a virtual trip experience.
The weather stations will be used monthly to reinforce the science and math concepts we are studying throughout the year.
PBL
The project will be embedded within the course work throughout the year. Each month, the Breakout EDU kits will be used with grade-specific projects based on the math and science curriculum. All other items will be utilized when appropriate subject matter is being addressed within the classroom. All activities will include data collection as well as a writing component.
Engagement
The project will be embedded within the course work throughout the year. Each month, students will complete challenges using the materials found in the STEM kits. These challenges will include tasks such as: create a bridge, construct a tent, build the tallest tower possible, or engineer a boat that floats. Students will need to draw a plan and write an explanation for their given task prior to beginning the task. After the task, students will need to write a brief report explaining whether or not they were successful and why.
Attitude-related Assignment: Monthly, classes will participate in a lesson about various STEM professionals. During the lessons, students will learn about STEM careers via videos, Skype, interviews, guest speakers, or trade books. Each lesson will include a writing component appropriate to the grade level.
By presenting a variety of STEM professions throughout the year, student interest in careers with which they were previously unaware may be sparked. Learning about successful professionals, along with their methods and struggles, should help students understand the roles of effort and attitude in STEM.
Course Work-related/Project Implementation-related Assignment: The project will be embedded within the course work throughout the year.
Go Outside!
For each major concept in math, students will develop a video or poster demonstrating how the concepts apply to their lives. They will also participate in a “reality store” as a way to use large numbers in a realistic context.
In science, students will participate in daily lessons and reading to prepare for the biocube field trips. They will also complete follow up assignments to demonstrate understanding of the standards they were covering during the trips. As the cube will not be visited each month, students will complete assignments based on a virtual trip experience.
The weather stations will be used monthly to reinforce the science and math concepts we are studying throughout the year.
PBL
The project will be embedded within the course work throughout the year. Each month, the Breakout EDU kits will be used with grade-specific projects based on the math and science curriculum. All other items will be utilized when appropriate subject matter is being addressed within the classroom. All activities will include data collection as well as a writing component.
Engagement
The project will be embedded within the course work throughout the year. Each month, students will complete challenges using the materials found in the STEM kits. These challenges will include tasks such as: create a bridge, construct a tent, build the tallest tower possible, or engineer a boat that floats. Students will need to draw a plan and write an explanation for their given task prior to beginning the task. After the task, students will need to write a brief report explaining whether or not they were successful and why.