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What is my driving question for student centered STEM investigation and learning?

How will students engage in the engineering design process?

How will I access student learning (summative and formative)?

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How do we design and construct a prototype of a star tower?

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Imani wishes to jump high enough to reach the moon. How might Imani find a way to reach the moon other than jumping?

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What resources in my curriculum are useful here?

What is missing from my curriculum resources?

Where can I find resources to supplement the curriculum I already have?

What online resources could I add or adapt using to teach the standard(s) and move students toward mastery of my lesson objective(s)?

Where can I make connections to other subject areas and find the resources to do so?

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What am I going to use/not use?

What do I need to adjust?

What is my plan for implementation with the materials?

Are these materials and instructional design meeting all students' needs?

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How will I use my resources to support my driving question and instructional delivery?

What teacher moves will I use (explicit teacher talk, modeling, providing support based on specific student struggles)?

How will I provide opportunities for cooperative learning and productive struggle in my lesson?

Where will students be leading the work?

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Teacher will read the story Imani's Moon. Students will also have access to the book in Epic Books where it will be assigned to them. Teacher will have students brainstorm ideas on how Imani can reach the moon if she can't jump high enough. Students will also be jumping like the Massi tribe. They will input their data in an excel sheet. The students will create data points to track the data.

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Teacher will model how to jump and how to measure their jumps and input their information in an excel sheet.
Teacher will have examples of towers for students to use as inspiration when constructing their straw towers.

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Students will work in small groups. Teacher will be a facilitator between the groups for support. Teacher will roam and have a group near her for reading problems for students that have accommodations.

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Students will lead this project and collaborate amongst themselves to construct their tower and collect their data. Teacher will be a facilitator.

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Students are reading about Imani who is part of the Massai tribe in Kenya. She wants to jump high to reach the moon. How can Imani construct a tower that is tall enough to reach the moon?

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Students will brainstorm in their groups collaboratively on how to construct a straw tower. They will collaborate on constructing a tower that is tall.

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Students will draw a prototype of how they would like their tower to look while making sure they have a strong foundation.
They will look at the straws to determine the best way to interlock the straws that supports the tower.

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Students will take the straws and construct their tower. Students should be making sure their foundation is strong and if not looking to improve the structure.

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Students should be seeing if their tower meets the criteria. If the criteria is not met then students should be improving their tower and taking notes as to why they had to improve their tower.

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What standards am I teaching? What are the objectives for my lesson?

What do students need before coming into this lesson?

What do I want my students to know and understand?

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MA.3.DP.1.1

Collect and represent numerical and categorical data with whole-number values using tables, scaled pictographs, scaled bar graphs or line plots. Use appropriate titles, labels and units.

SC.3.E.5.5
Investigate that the number of stars that can be seen through telescopes is dramatically greater than those seen by the unaided eye.

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Identify ways that technology can foster teamwork, and collaboration can support problem solving and innovation.

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Am I prepared for my students?

Do I have all the knowledge that is required for this lesson?

What can go wrong in this lesson?

How can I prevent these moments from happening?

Are all my materials gathered?

Is my Plan B ready?

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Students read a book in ELA called Imani's Moon.  This book is about a little girl in the Massai tribe that wishes to jump to the moon. Respect is earned in the Massai tribe the higher a person can jump. In this STEM lesson, students will build a straw tower to the moon.

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Students need to have prior understanding of:
engineering process
data collection and how to input in a table
Imani's moon
Solar system
Telescope usage

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African-American mathematician Gladys West

She invented an accurate model of Earth which lead to the invention of Global Positioning System (GPS) which measures speed and location

Astronaut, engineer, and inventor Dr. Ellen Ochoa

She was the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_6terwDDWU

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Kennedy Space Center | Full Tour & Guide

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Our Solar System and Beyond student sheet

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuX_27HvHpU

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https://www.getepic.com/app/read/17530

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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Get unlimited access to 40,000 of the best books, audiobooks, videos, & more for kids 12 and under. Try it free.

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https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/ucd_straw_tower_activity1

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Students learn about civil engineers and work through each step of the engineering design process in two mini-activities that prepare them for a culminating challenge to design and build the tallest straw tower possible, given limited time and resources. First they examine the profiles of the tallest 20 towers in the world. Then in the first mini-activity (one-straw tall tower), student pairs each design a way to keep one straw upright with the least amount of tape and fewest additional straws. In the second mini-activity (no “fishing pole”), the pairs determine the most number of straws possible to construct a vertical straw tower before it bends at 45 degrees—resembling a fishing pole shape. Students learn that the taller a structure, the more tendency it has to topple over. In the culminating challenge (tallest straw tower), student pairs apply what they have learned and follow the steps of the engineering design process to create the tallest possible model tower within time, material and building constraints, mirroring the real-world engineering experience of designing solutions within constraints. Three worksheets are provided, for each of two levels, grades K-2 and grades 3-5. The activity scales up to school-wide, district or regional competition scale.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAFrlzOtz-Y

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How telescopes work. Learn planets. Why questions and science for kids. How things work