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STEM Focus: Creativity and Communication

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STEM Focus: Creativity and Communication

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Nov. 2018
Savana wanted to give students an opportunity to be creative. She added the assignment of use any materials to fill-in their Roadrunner. Students then presented them to the class and explained the why they chose the materials they chose.

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Savana STEM Focus: Creativity and Communication

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STEM Focus: Collaboration and Technology with STEM Centers

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STEM Focus: Collaboration and Technology with STEM Centers

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Nov. 2018
Savana wanted to increase students' ability to collaborate without needing her support. Savana had 4 science (human body) centers. Students were engaged in rotations with different activities exploring the anatomy of the body. One group was using a model body. The other 3 groups were working on computers. Each group had a different computer program.

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Savana STEM Focus: Collaboration and Technology with STEM Centers

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STEM Focus: Increase student engagement
Jan. 2019

Overarching Question: How can one person can make a difference?

Brainstormed ways to use video about Rosa Parks.

Lesson:

Engage- Students work in pairs and created domino patterns. Then tap one domino and watch the others fall.

Hangman “One person can make a difference”

Explore - Watch segments of video using SOS strategy Pause and Play.

List of management strategies:

Think Pair Share

Quick Write

Quick Draw

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STEM Focus: Finding STEM elements in lessons

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STEM Focus: Finding STEM elements in lessons

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Feb. 2019
We discussed the artifacts needed for the portfolio. This included looking at artifacts and analyzing them for evidence of STEM elements. We also continued our discussion about student engagement, primarily in relationship to specific struggling students. One of her students is constantly absent. This is impacting the SAT process and delaying the much-needed evaluation.

Key takeaway -  Savana was incorporating the 4Cs more than she thought.

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STEM Focus: Increasing Student Engagement with SOS

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STEM Focus: Increasing Student Engagement with SOS

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March 7, 2019
We uploaded sample test questions onto google classroom slideshow. Savana was excited to learn how to do this

We planned a Science review lesson using Pause and Play and Silence. I taught it the first period. Savana noticed a dramatic increase in student engagement. Normally, she shows the whole 4 minute video at one time and then has class discussion with her asking questions and 1 or 2 students answering. Today, students watch snippets of video (20 seconds), wrote facts they learned and then shared their facts with a partner. Then students shared with the whole group what they had learned from their partner instead of what they had written.

Savana taught the other classes using the same lesson.

Savana was amazing. She was able to implement new strategies immediately.

Key takeaway - Having students share what their partners said, increased engagement and positive feelings towards other students.
Student Interview
This is an interview with a students who struggles to get anything done. In this activity he was able to complete the enter assignment. In the interview he explains how the activity helped him.

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March 7, 2019
Photo Album

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Carlsbad Savana STEM Focus: SOS and Critical Thinking

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Nov. 2018 Collaboration- Grade Level Posters:  Scholars researched states in groups and decided on two facts to post on the grade level poster.  Each group read the posters at the beginning of class and then added new facts.  In the end, each state had a poster created by groups from all of the classes.  Posters were displayed in the hall for several weeks.  The assignment of facts was presented as a challenge to other classes to come up with more interesting facts and the scholars loved challenging one another.  Scholars were found reading the posters in the hallway and learning about the states.  Scholars continued facts and created their own post it notes to display, showing student engagement beyond expectation.

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Dec. 201Creativity-Scholars were allowed to show creativity when making their partner state posters.  Scholars decided what information they wanted to portray on their partner posters and how they wanted to posters to be organized.  Some partners made the entire poster in the shape of their state, this was really impactful for students to see how the states are not shaped the same, such as Florida and Louisianna.  One poster also had an orgami ship because shipping was a major industry.

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Dec. 2018 Critical Thinking- This scholar showed critical thinking when he connected Louisiana's oil industry with Carlsbad, NM's oil industry and economy.

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Jan. 2019

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Kari -  STEM Lesson Plan -What is Courage?

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Jan. 2019
Kari developed a mini unit about Perseverance. Over a series of days, she showed videos and read inspiring stories. The last activity students looked up inspiring quotes and wrote them on snowflakes. The most powerful component was when Kari shared her own personal story about the challenges she had growing up and working her way though college which included obtaining a Master's.

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STEM Focus: Critical Thinking, Real World, and Careers

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STEM Focus: Critical Thinking, Real World, and Careers

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Feb. 2019
Kari wanted to try new strategies to encase student engagement and level of critical thinking. The original activity - Kari read a passage (Careers and Weather) out loud as students followed along. Then as a class they answered comprehension questions. Kari found most students were not able to follow along and write down the answers.
Kari tried The 5 Most Important Words. Students worked with partners and identified 5 important words in a passage. They then shared their words with another set of students. The group of 4 had to come to an agreement of the 5 most important words.
The students did a great job. Because they had a focus they read the passage more closely and were able to answer the comprehension questions.
Interview with students about the Strategy
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Kari STEM Focus: Critical Thinking, Real World, and Careers

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STEM Focus: SOS Pause and Play, Collaboration, Student Engagement

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STEM Focus: SOS Pause and Play, Collaboration, Student Engagement

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March 2019
Videotaped Lesson about weather and deserts.

Kari wanted to try a strategy to increase student engagement so we used Pause and Play. The video had numerous facts. We paused the video after each fact.  (20 seconds). Tables had to agree on the fact shared. The level of engagement was great. The video shows the majority of the class engaging in the table conversation.

Kari then had students read passages and find the 5 most important words. Students shared the words. Kari then had students act out the process of wind, clouds, and rain. The students were completely engaged and had a great time.

Key takeaway having students find the 5 words help them engage more in the reading of the text

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March 2019
Savana was excited about trying the SOS strategy that had been used at training.

ABC SOS

The first class she read 3 pages from the science textbook. Students then wrote something they learned. The sentence started with the letter they had been given.

The next round, we started by modeling a Table Texting. Then students wrote a fact and turned the fact into a question. Students then exchanged questions with a partner. They answered each others’ questions. This Table Text continued. Most students finished 2 rounds. Then the students did the ABC strategy. We noticed the statements

Included had science vocabulary and information than the first class.

The next class we were more specific and clear with directions. We modeled and discussed how to turn a fact into a question. Then students used the Table Top Texting SOS. The results from this class had even more info and vocabulary.

Savana said her last class was the most challenging. We broke the process into simpler steps and as a group, worked through one step at a time. We also gave students 60 second intervals to complete specific task. We also gave very specific expectation of behavior. For instance when students looked for a fact from the textbook, they were told to do so silently so other students could concentrate. Again the ABC SOS resulted in more vocabulary and infor.

We learned that the students were struggling changing facts into questions. This lead to a change for tomorrow’s lesson. We created a worksheet for students to practice turning facts into questions.

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March 2019

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April 2019
Students work with pairs to study for a spelling test. One student gives the words, the other writes it, and then they both check it. all the students worked independent of Mrs. Daughtry.

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Carlsbad Summer STEM Focus: Collaboration, April 2019

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March 2019
Just in time. Summer's goal was to help students connect weather to their own lives while introducing them to different careers.

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Carlsbad, Summer- STEM Focus: Real World Problem and Careers

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March 2019
Students engagement was extremely high when they worked on a Digital Breakout for a science review.

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Nov. and Dec. 2019
Ms. Jones created math centers for students to rotate through. 1 center was a game which required critical thinking. 2 centers included technology and critical thinking. 1 center was a review with collaboration.

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Jan. 2019
Ms. Jones and I continued our conversation about using math centers during guided math. The challenge was incorporating real world and careers into the activities. The other challenge was structuring activities students could do independently. One ideas was a center of math picture books engaging the imagination and developing creativity.

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Feb. 2019
Uploading artifacts to Ms. Jones's portfolio lead to a discussion about  Critical Thinking in First Grade. It looks different than in older grades. What takes critical thinking for first graders to figure out, older students have already figured out and no longer need the critical thinking to accomplish it.

Key Takeaway - The power of reflection in the learning process and the role the portfolio has in that processes

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March 2019
While creating a  4 Cs Rubric for a math activity we discussed the difference between 1st grade and upper grades. The 4 Cs look very different in the earlier grades.

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4 Cs Rubric

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STEM Focus:  Unit Plan with a combined STEM Lesson Plan and Carlsbad Lesson Plan. 

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STEM Focus:  Unit Plan with a combined STEM Lesson Plan and Carlsbad Lesson Plan. 

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Ms. Solcido and I worked on creating a Simple Machines Unit that included all the elements of both lesson plan templates. What at first seemed like an overwhelming task, was surprisingly simple and lead to great conversations.

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STEM Focus: Unit plan with all of the STEM Elements.

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STEM Focus: Unit plan with all of the STEM Elements.

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Carlsbad Kari 4Cs Rubric for Perseverance Lesson