Lesson Plans for the Week of 5/26- 5/30

Lesson Plans
Mr. Bish
Grade 6 STEM
Science and Literacy

Project: Agbotics

Monday, May 26, 2014

NO SCHOOL in Observance of Memorial Day.

Thank you to those brave men and women who have served and gave their lives for our liberties.


Tuesday, May 27, 2014 E- Day Band Day

Objectives:  Students will

1.) Create a mission assignment for another programming group to complete.
2.) Work in cooperative groups to program the NXT Mindstorm Robot to complete.
3.) Analyze and evaluate programming to make sure that all moments complete the mission. Record trials in their mission notebooks.
4.) Measure and cut mission mats for simulation.

Lesson Overview: Students work together to create a program for another programming team.  Program will have six programming moves for the robot to complete.  Students will swap programming assignments and work as teams to complete missions. Students will write up mission report and make observational notes to help them complete their assigned missions.

Evidence of Learning:  Students complete mission assignment and mission plan.

Tuesday, May 28, 2014

Objectives for Lesson : Students will.....
1.) create a mission that uses seven commands that incorporate the use of a touch sensor.
2.) write out commands and assign different variables to each command.
3.) record observations and changes in scientific notebooks.

Lesson Overview: Teacher will instruct how to make tight turns within a tight location and demonstrate a program where a touch sensor is used to time out commands. Students will work together to come up with a program and a mission plan that gives information based on what programmers want the robot to do.

Evidence of Learning: Completed mission plan and written evidence of change in write up.

Lesson Plans for the Week of 5/19/14-5/23/14

Lesson Plans for  Mr. Bish

STEM Grade 6 

Project Time: Agbotics- Project if focused on linking agriculture in the North Country and using robots to help agriculture boom in the North Country.

Monday, May 19, 2014   F- Day 

Monday Morning Meeting Protocol:

Objective for the Meeting:

- Students will learn their job placements four Agbotics project.

-Students will give feedback about the interviewing process.

- Students will listen to feedback about interviews.

Break into Departments- Students will go to assigned departments to establish, procedures, team contracts, write down Need to Know list, generate driving questions.

Afternoon Work Session: Students will write need to know list and establish driving question.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 A- Day

Objectives for Programmers-Students will...
1. ) Collaborate to write up group and partners work agreements.
2.) Learn and record the format for Mission Planning Sheets.
3.) Create a contract

Summary: Students will partner up with their partner programmer and come up with answers to questions about partner and work expectations.  Students will agree on expectations and write a final contract.
 Students also learned the expectations for mission requirements.

Afternoon Work Session:  Students break into corporations. Share what they learned within their departments and discuss how it will help their corporation.  Student will then select a crop and choose three tasks that the robot must perform.  Students will then do research to see how they can build their knowledge of Apples to assist in the presentation.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 B- Day

Objectives for lesson: Programming

Students will work in cooperative groups to write up their first mission.
Students will program their robot using the Mind Storm program.
Students will test their programs with demo robots.

Summary of Lesson: Students will watch video tutorial about programming. The students will then write a program mission report. Student will then test the robot on three missions.
Mission 1 : One movement. Robot travels from one end of the mission table to the other end.
Mission 2: Two Movements: Robot travels from one end of the table to the other end of the table, taps the wall and reverses back to the other end and taps the wall.

Students Write Up Mission Forms for each mission.  

Lesson Plans for Mr. Bish
STEM Grade 6
Science/ Non -Fiction Literacy

Monday, April 28, 2014 D- Day

Monday Morning Meeting Protocol

Objectives for Day

s/w be introduce the students to the Trash Bot Assignment Requirements.
- students must build a trash bot  not bigger than 12" wide by 12" long By 24 " tall.
- Trash Bot can not weight more than five pounds
- students must create a visual of robot ( poster, prezi, power point, video
essay)
- Present robot to group- Presentation includes name of robot, function, demonstration, explanation of building process, design challenges, explanation of who the project will benefit.

Speaker: Linda Durrant- Head X ray Technician and MRI specialist at Alice Hyde Medical Center.
s/w listen to Mrs. Durrant and ask questions about her career choice.

Mrs. Zappia- Master Review with students 13-14 1-28

Tuesday, April  29, 2014  E Day

Objectives for the Day:

Final prep for NYS Math Test- Reviewed Coordinate Plains and Finding Surface Area of shapes create on coordinate plains.

Afternoon Session 15/16 - Trash Bot Driving Question established by students.
Students create a needs to know list for their trash bots to complete before construction is started.

Mrs. Zappia Period 13/14 Pull Students for Final Review question 29-51 NY Math Review


Wednesday, April 30, 2014 F- Day

New York State Math Assessment Day 1 Book 1. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the grade 6 curriculum . Multiple Choice Questions 1-28 in 80 Minutes

Post Test: Trash Bot Project : Students will work in cooperative groups to create a trash bot made out of recycled materials. Dimensions 12" by 12" by 24 ".


Thursday, May 1, 2014 A Day

New York State Math Assessment Day 2 Book 2. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the grade 6 curriculum . Multiple Choice Questions 28-60 in 80 Minutes

Post Test: Trash Bot Project : Students will work in cooperative groups to create a trash bot made out of recycled materials. Dimensions 12" by 12" by 24 ".

Friday, May 2, 2014 B Day

New York State Math Assessment Day 3 Book 3. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the grade 6 curriculum . Extended response questions  in 90 Minutes

Post Test: Trash Bot Project : Students will work in cooperative groups to create a trash bot made out of recycled materials. Dimensions 12" by 12" by 24 ".

Lesson Plans for the Weeks of April 7, 2014 through April 25, 2014
Mr. Bish
Grade 6 STEM

Monday, April 7, 2014 A Day

Monday Morning Meeting Protocol


Tuesday, April 8, 2014 B Day

NYS Math Prep- Students will review for the upcoming NYS Math TEST

Coordinate Plains- Review X and Y axis and plotting coordinates

Wednesday , April 9, 2014   C Day

NYS Math Prep- Students will review for the upcoming NYS Math TEST - Formulas for Area of Rectangle, Triangle, Parallelogram, Squares,

Independent Study- Science Pages 66-69 Key Terms and Concepts

Thursday, April 10, 2014 D- Day
NYS Math Prep- Students will review for the upcoming NYS Math TEST - Review Area formulas  focus on triangles area.

Independent Study- Science Pages 66 - 69 Key Terms and Concepts Due Assessment


Friday April 11, 2014  April 20, 2014 - Spring Break

Monday , April 21, 2014 E Day

Monday Morning meeting Protocol

NYS Math- Review- Surface Area

Science Assessment
 Pages 66-69 Erosion

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 F- Day
NYS review PEMDAS order of operations.

Science Independent Study - Pages 72- 90 Water Erosion Key Terms Concepts

Wednesday April 23, 2014 A Day
NYS Math Review - Volume ( Length x width x height)

Science Indpendant Study Pages 72-90 Water Erosion Due Thursday

Thursday, April 24, 2014 B Day

NYS - REVIEW - Multiplying fractions . Dividing Fractions using the multiplicative inverse.

Science Independent study Due 72-90

Friday, April 25, 2014  C Day

Trash Bot Assignment introduced by Mrs. Kuhn

Students will create a trash bot out of recycled materials design must represent an ancient culture from ancient history.  Must construct a Robot, Visual and Presentation

Assessment Pages 72 - 90 S/w Demonstrate knowledge of Water Erosion on Assessment.

Lesson Plans for the Week of March 31, 2014- April 4, 2014

Lesson Plans for the Week of March 31, 2014- April 4, 2014
Mr. Bish
Grade  6 STEM  SCIENCE/ Non-Fiction Literacy

Monday, March 31 ,2014 A- Day

Monday Morning Meeting Protocol

GREETING, MORNING BUZZ, WEEK IN REVIEW, OBJECTIVES FOR THE WEEK, SHOUT OUTS FROM TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.

SPEAKER: MR. COOK DEAN OF STUDENTS SALMON RIVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Cooperative Group Activity: TEST preparation. Students shared their answers from their test review with each other. Students justified their answers with evidence from the text.Students argued why their chose their answer and supported it with evidence.

Mrs.Santamore: Poetry Review


Tuesday, April 1, 2014 B-Day- APRIL FOOLS Day

Day One Book One New York State ELA EXAM.

Objective for the Day:
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the ELA grade six curriculum by reading passages and answering 42 multiple choice questions.
Students will cite evidence, draw conclusions, make inferences, define terms using context clues, interpret authors point of view, and examine text to support answers to questions.

Mini- Lesson - Extended response test prep.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014 C-Day

Day Two  Book Two New York State ELA EXAM.

Objective for the Day:
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the ELA grade six curriculum by reading passages and answering  multiple choice questions.  Students will write extended response to questions.
Students will cite evidence, draw conclusions, make inferences, define terms using context clues, interpret authors point of view, and examine text to support answers to questions.

Mini- Lesson - Extended response test prep.

Thursday, April 3, 2014  D-Day

Day Three Book Three New York State ELA Exam

Objective for the Day:
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the ELA grade six curriculum by reading passages and comparing passages in and extended response.
Students will cite evidence, draw conclusions, make inferences, define terms using context clues, interpret authors point of view, and examine text to support answers to questions.

Lesson Plans for the Week of 3/24/14-3/ 28/14

Lesson Plans for the Week of 3/24/14-3/ 28/14
Mr. Bish
Grade 6 STEM

Monday, March 24, 2014 B- Day

Monday Morning Meeting

Follow Monday Morning meeting protocol: Greeting, Morning Buzz, Speaker, Week in Review, Shout-Outs, and Objectives for the week.

Objectives: As a result of the lesson students will.....

1.) Complete a STAR reading assessment to demonstrate their knowledge of reading and reading comprehension.

2.) Use reading strategies to help them gain levels in STAR.

Activity. Students work to complete the STAR test during a class period.  When they have finished taking their STAR test they must pre read the article, Fossils and Earthquakes. Write down the gist and highlight and underline  key words and information .

Evidence of learning: Complete the STAR test.

Homework: Read the Article:  Fossils and Earthquakes

Tuesday, March 25, 2014  C Day

Objectives for the Lesson : As a result of the lesson students will....

1. )Complete a close read of the article titled " Lake of Fire".
2.) Use caption to gain information form a picture.
3.) Use captions to draw conclusions based on information presented in the article.

Activity: Students will get the article lake of fire. As the read the jot down notes about the article after each paragraph.  After they read they will read the questions that need to be answered to demonstrate their reading comprehension .  Use the captions to communicate information that is not presented in the article in text.

Evidence of Learning: Read the article Lake of Fire  answer questions 1-5


Wednesday, March 27, 2014  D- Day
 Objectives:  As a result of the lesson students will.....

1. Reread the article lake of fire and answer comprehension question based on the text.
2.) Support their answers with concrete evidence from the text.


Activity: Students will work together to reread the article and organize the information on a graphic organizer.   Communicate with evidence the answer to questions.

Homework-  Use the text to answer questions 6-11

Thursday, March 28, 2014 E- Day

Shared time with Mrs. Santamore no science due to shared time.

Homework 6-11


Friday, March 29, 2014 F- Day
Objectives As a result of the lesson students will....

1.) Review Lake of Fire article answers and support answers with evidence.

2.) Close read of The Problem Solvers.

3.) Write the gist of each paragraph for Problem Solvers.

Lesson Overview- Students will review the answers for the article lake of fire. Students will support their answers with evidence from the text and justify why their answer is the correct answer. Students will then preview the article; The Problem Solver  students will discuss the importance of engineering and the process of research and how it connects to solving problems.

Activity: Complete a close read of the article The Problem Solvers and write the gist of each paragraph for Monday.

Monday :

Objectives:

•       1. Understand the cause and effect of the 5 forces of Mechanical Weathering.

•       2. Have a better understanding of cause and effect.

•       3. Describe what Chemical Weathering is.

Anticipatory set:

Students will be engaged by a Bell Ringer that states, What are the two things that team up to wear the Earth’s surface down?

Summary: In this lesson the students will review the forces of Mechanical weathering and be introduced to Chemical weathering. Students will also work with the skill of cause and effect again. They will tie the concept of cause and effect to these weathering styles.

Materials: paper (lined sheet)

Activities:

Cause and Effect telephone game: Students will be given a scenario and they will work with their group of three to four to create a story chain.

Book Activity 1: Students will review Mechanical weathering by turning to pages 40-41 and writing the cause and effect of each force of Mechanical Weathering.

Book Activity 2: Student will read the section on Chemical weathering and its effects. Students will write down one-two interesting facts about each effect. (water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, living organisms, and acid rain.)

Closing: Students will answer review questions that pertain to the lesson’s content.

Hwk: pg 45 Question 1 and 2 both a-b sections.

 Tuesday:

Objectives:

1.       Students will be able to know the materials needed to create soil.

2. Student will be able to identify the three parts of soil formation.

Anticipatory Set:

Students will be engaged in this lesson by trying to solve a riddle. I am different colors, I am found outside, plants are my best friends, you can also find me at Home Depot and Walmart, insects love me, I make up 10% of the Earth. What am I?

Summary: Students in this lesson will learn of how soil is formed and its components. They will know of which type of soil is the best for growing items and have and understanding of how soil composition and texture can effect plant growth.

Materials: Plate or Pie chart blank template, coloring pencils, and crayons.

Activities:

Soil pie chart: Students will recreate the components of loam (a type of soil). Students are given supplies to create this pie chart.

 Closing Activity: Students will answer questions created to help foster understanding of the content that was taught in this lesson.

Hwk: pg. 54 Question 1 (a-b-c)

Wednesday:

Objectives:

Students will be able identify the various soil types that are present in North America.

Students will be to know what a decomposer is and how they affect the soil.

Anticipatory set: Can you tell me the three types of Horizons and where topsoil and subsoil are located in the three horizons?

Summary: The students will learn about the differing soil types that are located in North America. They will also learn about how decomposers and other organisms can affect the soil.

Materials: Construction paper, colored pencils, markers, and decomposer handout

Activities:

Soil types activity: Students will answer questions pertaining to the reading on page 51.

Decomposer video: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.oate.decompose/decomposers/

Then after video the students will answer discussion questions via handout worksheet.

Closing activity:

Students will write a journal entry on what they have learned about concerning living organisms in the soil, and the different soil types.

Hwk: pg. 54 Question 3 (a-b-c)

Thursday:

Objectives;

Students will be able to identify what a natural resource is.

Students will be able to describe how soil can lose its value.

Students will be able to identify ways that the soil can be conserved.

Anticipatory set:

 Bell Ringer: What is a decomposer and why are their roles important?

Summary: In this lesson the students will be exposed the areas of soil loss, soil value, and soil conservation. In the lesson the students will learn of ways that farmers use techniques to conserve the soil after harvesting season. The class will understand how the Dust Bowl affected how people plant their crops.

Activities:

http://www.history.com/topics/dust-bowl/videos/black-blizzard

Students will view a video that discusses the Dust Bowl and its impact on the soil. During the video students will write down three facts that they have learned of during the video on the Dust Bowl. The students will share their findings along with their most interesting fact of the three.

Class discussion on why is soil so valuable and activity. Students will learn that the soil is a natural resource. They will have five minutes to write down as many things we can get from the soil in our everyday lives. Timed activity.

Soil Conservation Why is it important?: Students will read pg. 59 about the various ways farmers have developed techniques in order to save the soil from destruction. Then they will write down the various techniques in order to understand why they are important.

Public service announcement: Students will have 10 minutes to come up with a news report on the Dust Bowl. They will write at least a paragraph reporting the terrible event (using knowledge that they have gained from both the video and the text). As also a part of their paragraph, they will identify the danger of soil loss and methods farmers have created to save the soil.

Closing Activity:

Students will answer review questions that are developed by the teacher in order to check for understanding.

Friday:

Chapter two test.