Jill Grogg

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  1. Hey everybody, my name is Jill Krog and I'm an
  2. eighth grade science teacher at severe middle school and I
  3. have enjoyed this class.
  4. Um I was just gonna go through my presentation really
  5. quick. I've never used Prezi before, so um I'm just
  6. kind of played around with it.
  7. We did a roller coaster lesson for the interdisciplinary planning
  8. that we did with another teacher in this class and
  9. that was really interesting to talk to another teacher in
  10. the district, especially one in a different subject that I'm
  11. in. Um First of all it was science, math and
  12. ela all kind of combined.
  13. We used the vocabulary from science.
  14. We um we're gonna make a model using things that
  15. they learned in math and then writing to communicate things
  16. that they learned about roller coasters, so we're using forces
  17. in motion is the main over arching topic.
  18. The students kind of use what they learn about forces
  19. in motion and Newton's laws and then they use what
  20. they know about proportion and similarity, which I teach in
  21. the same classroom as a math teacher and I know
  22. that's what they're doing right now, a similarity.
  23. So if they were to try to build a scale
  24. model of roller coaster that they would produce from a
  25. project such as this, they would be using things that
  26. they learned in math and then um Mhm.
  27. It's kind of based off of a are argumentative paper
  28. that our science teachers do already about trying to use
  29. those words that we've been talking about in Newton's laws
  30. to argue of over which is the most thrilling roller
  31. coaster. And so the L.
  32. A teacher that I was paired with talked about informative
  33. writing where they would do some research and then make
  34. a descriptive essay about their roller coaster and maybe um
  35. utilized the um, definitions that they have learned from forces
  36. in motion and then also the information from math on
  37. proportion and similarity.
  38. The next thing is, are my thoughts about stem my
  39. understanding of stem has changed because now I don't now
  40. like to be more intentional about working with other disciplines.
  41. Um, even though they kind of done that before.
  42. Uh, just maybe keep that in the forefront of my
  43. mind. I've been challenged because stem and transport discipline disciplinary,
  44. we'll take a lot of work and planning and um,
  45. I can't give up because the stakes are high for
  46. students and for our country, uh that students really um
  47. take stem into all of their different disciplines.
  48. Uh, it reinforced the direction of the new science standards
  49. and that they are correct that we do need to
  50. make standards more relevant for students when you do more
  51. project based, more inquiry based learning there.
  52. Um, applying what I learned here in class, I would
  53. like to be more intentional about the way I teach
  54. my students.
  55. Like I've talked about before, um create this more projects
  56. and inquiry based and try to work with other um
  57. people. So with my colleagues begin and continue the conversations
  58. about stem PBL and trans disciplinary lessons and lesson planning
  59. and making goals for ourselves and for our students and
  60. then parents and students applying that there is to talk
  61. to students more.
  62. Really liked the idea of maybe sending home things that
  63. they can do, um take stem education home with them
  64. and then seek out opportunities to experience stem events in
  65. the community.
  66. I know we have really great programs at roper Mountain
  67. Science Center, etcetera.
  68. Um, so that would be a good opportunity to maybe
  69. um, send out maybe a newsletter every so often about
  70. stem in the ways that they can use it at
  71. home and then what I still want to know, obviously
  72. how to find more resources on all this, how, what's
  73. already out there and um, to get more collaboration from
  74. colleagues, how to get low achieving students more involved.
  75. And um, that's it.
  76. I hope that this answered all of the questions and
  77. I really enjoyed this class.