Lesson Plans for the Week of January 13, 2014- January 17, 2014
Mr. Bish
STEM Science / Literacy
Science Buddies Project Guide
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_guide_index.shtml
Monday, January 13, 2014 C Day
Objectives for the Lesson:
1. Participate in Monday Morning Meeting rituals a routines.
2. Ask questions to our speaker Mr. Warden about his career in education.
3. Evaluate sources to see if they legitimate sources.
4. Gain an understanding of plagiarism and how not to use others work as their own.
Lesson Overview:
Monday morning meeting will be review of content from the previous week. Students will given the required objectives for the week. Students will listen to a presentation by Mr. Warden our High School principal and his journey in education. Students will also learn about plagiarism in a presentation by Miss Conners. Students will define plagiarism, look at examples of plagiarism, evaluate whether or not works have been plagiarized. Students will learn about citing works, paraphrasing, summarizing, using quotations in context.
Science: Over the week end students needed to gather three pieces of research information to help build their background on the topic that they have selected for their science fair project. Students share the three articles that they selected and the group will evaluate each article and select the best article to use for their background report.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 D Day
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_guide_index.shtml
Objectives for the Lesson: As a result of the lesson students will...
1.) Share the three articles that they selected to be the basis for their research report.
2.) Evaluate if their sources to see if their questions are going to be answered.
3.) Select three articles to use for report.
4.) Learn the guidelines for establishing professional contacts to gain information on their selected topic.
Lesson Overview: Students will work in groups to evaluate their articles that they have selected to use for their research report. Students will use their graphic organizers to see if their How, What, Where, Why , When, Who questions will be answered based on the sources. Students will also learn a lesson about how to establish professional contacts to gain knowledge on the their selected topic.
Evidence of Learning: Students will choose the three strongest articles to support their research.
Homework: Each member of the group will take home on of the articles. Write the gist of each paragraph and highlight or underline key terms in sources.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 E Day
Objectives: As a result of the lesson students will....
1.) Record the author, publisher, copyright date, resource information from the articles they read over the previous night.
2.) Organize information gathered from questions 1 and 2 from their graphic organizer.
3.) Write down key words and information gathered from research that answer each of their questions.
Lesson Overview: Students will learn how to organize information from research articles by recording the author,date visited, title, source, publication date. Students will collaborate and work together to gather information that answers their first two questions.
Evidence of Learning: Complete two research pages with organized notes.
Thursday, January 16, 2014 F- DAY
Objectives: As a result of the lesson students will....
1.) Record the author, publisher, copyright date, resource information from the articles they read over the previous night.
2.) Organize information gathered from questions 1 and 2 from their graphic organizer.
3.) Write down key words and information gathered from research that answer each of their questions.
Lesson Overview:
The Science Groups will continue to focus on pulling evidence from sources they have located over the past week. The focus is on effectively answering each core question. The groups must make sure that they are proving that their experiment will work by providing research that proves their expected outcome. This is not easy to do, but through collaboration and teacher support, most of the groups have been able to correlate their experiment with one that has been done before. We hope to finish the note taking section tomorrow so that we may move forward with the actual research report.
