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This 5-week unit plan for an 8th grade technology class focuses on flight and space. Students will learn about the history and evolution of flight, complete activities like building and launching hot air balloons, and get hands-on experience using a flight simulator. The teacher reflects that students enjoyed the activities but some improvements could be made, such as creating stations for the flight simulator so all students have a turn, and storing materials in a more organized way. The overall goal is to teach students about flight while strengthening their literacy and problem-solving skills.

The document provides a lesson plan for teaching students about simple machines using levers. In the first part of the lesson, students use everyday objects as levers to launch marshmallows and identify that they are using a first class lever. In the second part, students work in groups to design and build catapults out of various materials to launch marshmallows, labeling the effort, resistance, and fulcrum. Most students build second class levers. At the end, students evaluate their designs and discuss the different classes of levers.

Sandbox 101 describes how using sandboxes in the classroom can engage students in history lessons. Students work in groups to build models in sandboxes that demonstrate their understanding of historical topics like trench warfare from World War 1. This hands-on activity allows students to directly apply their knowledge and receive feedback. It also serves as both a formative and summative assessment. The document provides examples of sandbox activities and assessments that align with the Ontario history curriculum, and discusses the benefits of using this strategy for differentiated instruction and student engagement.

In this unit, students worked in groups to design and build boats out of various materials that would float. They explored concepts of buoyancy, density, and displacement through experimenting with their boat designs. Students then created brochures and slideshow presentations to persuade a toy company to use their boat design. The lesson incorporated science, math, technology, collaboration, creativity, and problem solving skills.

This document contains a daily lesson log for a 6th grade science class. The lesson focuses on friction and gravitational forces over the course of a week. On Monday, the class will review friction and brainstorm examples of it. They will then learn how friction affects motion through group activities and experiments. Later lessons examine different types of friction and ways to reduce friction through discussion, videos, and group presentations. Formative assessments include quizzes and analyzing student outputs to check understanding. The log outlines objectives, topics, resources, teaching procedures, reflections and remarks for the unit.

This document contains a daily lesson log for a 6th grade science class covering friction and gravity over three days. The lessons include objectives, topics, learning resources, procedures, and reflections. On day one, students will review friction and participate in an activity demonstrating how lubricants reduce friction. Day two will cover the different types of friction through group discussions and presentations. On day three, students will learn ways to reduce friction and be quizzed on how friction affects motion. The teacher aims to engage students through hands-on experiments, group work, and multimedia resources to develop their understanding of physics concepts.

This document provides an educator guide for a lesson on self-healing materials for students in grades 6-8. The lesson uses a 5E inquiry model and involves students making a simple polymer out of cornstarch and water to explore how the properties of the material change with different ingredient ratios. Students will measure ingredients, make polymers with different recipes, observe the properties, and calculate the ratios. The goal is for students to understand how the composition of a substance affects its properties and how this knowledge drives technology advancement at NASA.

This unit has been designed to support Year 3 teachers. It integrates some of the Primary Connections Ideas and acknowledges these, yet also add additional resources. We have tried to incorporate higher order thinking skills within the unit. If you like this resource like and share http://www.australiancurriculumlessons.com.au/2014/08/09/earth-moon-sun-lessons-plans-year-34/ (I am trying to win my son an iPad. The resource on this site with the most likes wins an iPad Mini).

This document provides instructions for a STEM project involving building and testing PVC pipe mini-marshmallow shooters. It estimates the time needed for different parts of the project. The objective is for students to learn about laws of motion, energy transfer, and engineering design through building their own shooter. Materials and instructions are provided, along with assessment questions to test student understanding of the science concepts. National standards in science, engineering, and math are also listed that the project addresses.

1. The document discusses four key steps in planning science lessons: selecting content aligned with standards, writing learning objectives, developing learning activities, and planning assessments. 2. It also covers writing learning objectives that specify the audience, behavior, conditions, and criteria. Objectives should address cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains using action verbs. 3. The document provides examples of hands-on learning activities like building straw airplanes and balloon rockets to teach scientific concepts, as well as the importance of formative and summative assessments.

(i) The lesson plan is for a 6th grade science class about investigating force and energy through analyzing friction. It involves showing students videos and pictures to understand friction's advantages like staying stationary and disadvantages like wearing things out. (ii) Students will do activities like observing a ball not moving on a table due to friction, an eraser wearing out, and the difficulty of pushing a heavy object. They will also list friction's advantages and disadvantages. (iii) The lesson concludes by having students summarize in their worksheets and mind maps what they learned about friction's advantages like walking without slipping and disadvantages like the need for more effort to move objects.

Rocketry is a unit that has benefitted from multiple iterations over time. It's Project Based Learning at it's finest, integrating all content areas while keeping students engaged at the highest levels.

The document discusses the 5E instructional model, which is based on constructivist learning theory. The 5E model structures learning into five phases: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. Each phase has a purpose - Engage piques student interest, Explore allows hands-on exploration, Explain introduces formal explanations, Elaborate extends understanding, and Evaluate assesses comprehension. Two sample science lesson plans are provided that demonstrate how activities in each phase can be designed to teach concepts like simple circuits and natural resources using an inquiry-based approach.

1. The document discusses planning science lessons by selecting content aligned with standards, writing learning objectives, developing learning activities, and planning assessments. It covers writing objectives that specify the audience, behavior, and conditions of learning. 2. Various teaching strategies are described, including introducing lessons to engage students, using discrepant events to reveal student conceptions, and designing activities to develop conceptual understanding and inquiry abilities. 3. Managing instruction involves grouping students, establishing safety rules, and preparing for and monitoring activities. Formative and summative assessments should be used to evaluate learning.

This document outlines a daily lesson plan for a 6th grade science class covering simple machines. Over the course of a week, students will learn about different types of simple machines including wheels and axles, wedges, levers, pulleys, and screws. They will participate in hands-on activities like using toys with wheels and axles, demonstrating how wedges and levers work, and identifying characteristics of pulleys and screws. The goal is for students to understand how simple machines transform energy and describe their characteristics and uses.