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Science Standards & STEM
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http://tinyurl.com/scienceandstem
Science standards & stem:
An Integrated approach
Stephanie Finley
RCS Science Specialist, PK-8
How do you create problem solvers in your classroom?
new TN Science Standards
new
- BIG shift in student performance—thinking, problem solving, analyzing, building, and testing
- Student centered & teacher facilitated
student performance
Changes in student performance
- Identify & ask questions
- Answer questions through scientific investigations
- Design & conduct investigations
- Think critically & logically to analyze & interpret data
- Integrate STEM to solve problems
What is STEM? ?
What is STEM? ?
- STEM is a methodology/way of thinking that allows lessons in the classroom to be student-centered and teacher facilitated.
- Students work collaboratively while solving real-world problems and demonstrating their learning through performance-based assessments and elaborated explanations of their thinking.
Engineering Design Process
Engineering Design Process
COMBINE
Experimental Design
Experimental Design
Control factors/controlled variables
Independent variables
Dependent variables
Control group
Experimental groups
STEM Challenges: aligned with the science standards
challenges
double
all grades
all grades
Straw Rockets
Hows does mass affect the performance of a straw rocket?
Design an Assistive Device
As a biomedical engineer, you and your team must design an assistive device that modifies an already existing assistive device or create a new one based on a specific disability. Brainstorm ideas and then make detailed plan for your best solution. Create a prototype and then test for functionality by using the device, making improvements with each iteration. At a concluding design expo, teams present their concepts and demonstrate their final prototype devices.
Crutches
Glasses
Wheelchair
Nail Clippers- arthritis
Spoon (or Fork)- cerebral palsy
Cutting Board- amputee
6th grade challenges
6th grade challenges
7th grade challenges
7th grade challenges
8th grade challenges
8th grade challenges
http://tinyurl.com/eclipsepadlet
http://tinyurl.com/eclipsepadlet
Solar Eclipse Memory Book
As students follow their daily schedule, they will go to each class and learn about something specific related to the eclipse. Each activity can be put in a mini-journal or binder to take home at the end of the day—an Eclipse Memory Book.
Science
Create a model or have your students create a model to show how eclipses work. Earth is unique in all the solar system having a moon that appears to be almost exactly the same size as the sun. How is this possible when our moon is only 1/400th the size of the sun?
This investigation will reveal the moon and sun appear the same size because the moon is also 400 times closer--a great simulation of how the Earth, moon, and sun align to produce eclipses.
Science & Math
Why do the sun and moon look like they are the same size? When you observe a solar eclipse you will notice that the moon covers the entire sun. How is this possible? Your challenge is to use a coin and a plate to model why the sun and moon appear to be the same size even thought the moon is actually smaller.
Science & Math
Estimating the Speed of the Lunar Shadow
Formula: S = d/t
Ela & Literacy
Students read about ancient explanations of a solar
eclipse and then come up with their own folk lore about a solar eclipse and write about it.
Social studies
Mythology: Compare and contrast solar eclipse myths from around the world. Students can analyze different cultures and their views on solar eclipses.
STEM challenge
Make an Eclipse Viewer: Students will research pinhole cameras or "Camera Obscura" and design and create their own pinhole camera or eclipse viewer.
Exploratory
- Art: Make a solar eclipse stop motion video or comic strip
- Music/Band: Show a simulation of the solar eclipse and students must write music to go with the eclipse/simulation.
- Technology/Computer Literacy: Create a solar eclipse themed website
- Family & Consumer Science: Design an eclipse t-shirt or make an eclipse themed menu
- PE/Wellness: Play Eclipse Ball- designed to have the camaraderie of volleyball, the spontaneity of badminton, and the excitement of tennis, with rules designed with fun and action in mind.
Contact Info
Email: finleys@rcschools.net
Twitter: @RCS_STEM
Cell: 615-554-8875
Office: 615-893-5815 ext. 22092 (CO) or 22860 (HOS)
Contact Info
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REsources
REsources
Prezi:
- https://tinyurl.com/scienceandstem
Eclipse Padlet:
- https://tinyurl.com/eclipsepadlet