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What standard(s) am I teaching?

What do I want students to know and understand?

What are my lesson objective(s)? 

What do my students need before coming into this lesson?  

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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 the lesson?

How can I prevent these moments from happening? 

Are all my materials gathered?

Is my plan B ready?

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How will 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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What resources in my curriculum are useful here? 

What is missing from my curriculum resources? 

Where can I find resources to support 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 is my driving question for student-centered STEM investigation and learning?

How will the students engage in the engineering design process?

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

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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 my instructional design meeting all students' needs?

]]> 2022-10-23 21:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2352604795 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361650245 K-2-ETS1-3 - Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
ELA.1.R.2.2 - Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text.
ELA.1.R.2.3 - Explain similarities and differences between information provided in visuals and words in an informational text.
ELA.1.C.4.1 - Participate in research to gather information to answer a question about a single topic.
MA.1.DP.1.1 - Collect data into categories and represent the results using tally marks or pictographs.

]]> 2022-10-29 18:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361650245 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361656542 Students will need to have some understanding of the design process. The steps in the process will be reviewed and discussed using this information]]> 2022-10-29 18:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361656542 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361663806 This information about inventor Garrett Morgan is in our ELA curriculum. This information will be used in a discussion of how inventors make life better for people.]]> 2022-10-29 18:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361663806 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361667406 2022-10-29 18:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361667406 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361667933 https://www.fantasticfunandlearning.com/bridge-building-stem-activities.html]]> 2022-10-29 18:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361667933 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361669944 How can we determine which of these truss or suspension bridge will hold the most weight?]]> 2022-10-29 18:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361669944 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361671368 Students will listen to the text Building Bridges and will identify the three bridge types that will be designed and tested to see which one will holds at least 6 grams.]]> 2022-10-29 18:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361671368 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361671835 Students will work independently or collaboratively to design a truss, suspension or an arch bridge.  Students will record their designs in their STEM journals. Students will share their designs with a classmate.]]> 2022-10-29 18:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361671835 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361683456 Students will work independently or collaboratively to create their designs of the bridge of their choice.]]> 2022-10-29 19:25:04 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361683456 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361684493 https://www.pbs.org/parents/crafts-and-experiments/build-a-bridge]]> 2022-10-29 19:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361684493 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361685166 Students will test the weight limit of their bridges and record their observations in their STEM Journals.  They will look for areas of improvement.]]> 2022-10-29 19:29:03 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361685166 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361685950 Students will gather as a group to discuss their designs and their successes and also the areas that could be improved. Questions about strength of the bridge, and other factors such as height, width and the type of materials used will be discussed if students do not include these factors in their small group discussions.  ]]> 2022-10-29 19:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361685950 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361688381 Students will record the weight that their bridge was able to hold. Students will categorize the data by type of bridge and will represent and interpret the data on a class chart. ]]> 2022-10-29 19:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361688381 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361695635 I was glad to find this resource that visuals for me to print out for my students with examples of the different bridge types. There are also reward certificates for completing the bridge design. ]]> 2022-10-29 19:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361695635 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361701499 I will use the visuals from the TPT unit and from the Building Bridges book to assist the students with the new vocabulary that will be presented during these lessons. ]]> 2022-10-29 20:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361701499 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361704933 https://www.pinterest.com/pin/191191946673176267/
I will use this lesson to have students explore building bridges. I will use the vocabulary from the visuals as I model this lesson.

]]> 2022-10-29 20:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361704933 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361705562 Students will have the opportunity to work with a partner on the design for the bridge. Students that choose to work alone will participate in the group debrief of all of the designs and will work with classmates to evaluate and redesign if necessary. ]]> 2022-10-29 20:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361705562 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361705882 As the students are designing and creating their bridges, I will be circulating to ask leading questions if I see that they are struggling with building a bridge that will hold weight. ]]> 2022-10-29 20:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361705882 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361706162 Students will take a leadership role as they explain their designs and their results from the project. ]]> 2022-10-29 20:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2361706162 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2378958027 Students will use the engineering design, create, and test a truss or suspension bridge.
Students will record the observations of the weight that their bridges can hold.
Students will use collected data to categorize and represent the data with tally marks or a pictograph.]]> 2022-11-10 16:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2378958027 l50bday https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2393213860 2022-11-21 21:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/l50bday/4iz6f8woye0fv7i6/wish/2393213860