Science lesson plan

1.Clinical Field Experience B: Science Lessons

. Allocate at least 5 hours in the field to support this assignment.

While your mentor teacher is working with the rest of the class, engage with the small group of students identified in Topic 2 on a science lesson or activity. Use your differentiated and engagement strategies where you see fit.   

After the science lesson or activity, in 250-500 words, summarize and reflect upon your experiences being sure to:

· Describe your initial conversation with the mentor teacher, including how the small group was chosen.

· Describe each differentiation and engagement strategy you planned, explaining your choices in relation to the needs of students within the small group.

· Reflect upon your experience using the identified strategies with the small group during the science lesson or activity.

· Explain how you will use your findings in your future professional practice

In addition to the above activity and reflection, speak with your mentor teacher about assisting during another upcoming lesson to help you prepare for the Topic 4 assignment. This lesson should be an engineering or STEM lesson or activity. With your mentor teacher, decide if you will target the same small group of students or select a new group of students who would benefit from differentiation and engagement strategies during the upcoming engineering or STEM lesson or activity.

Once you have identified the lesson and group you will be assisting, continue to work with your mentor teacher on the following:

· Identify areas of strengths and potential improvement for the small group.

· Identify which state standards and learning objectives the lesson focuses on.

· Based on the lesson and the groups characteristics, develop and share with your mentor teacher two differentiation and engagement strategies to utilize during the upcoming lesson or activity, making adjustments where needed.

· Prepare to utilize the identified strategies with the small group during the agreed upon science lesson or activity.

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Science Lesson Plan

One of the most important goals of education is to teach students to think. Science contributes to this goal with its emphasis on hypothesizing, thinking about the physical world, and reasoning from observations and data. The term science process skills is commonly used to describe such processes and is reflective of the behavior of scientists.

Using the same K-3 grade level as you did in the previous topic, develop a science lesson plan by selecting a standard and learning outcomes from your state’s science standards for that grade level. Use the “Class Profile” and the “5E Lesson Plan Template,” to complete this assignment.  As appropriate, incorporate concepts that you discussed with your mentor teacher during the field experience for this topic.

Your lesson plan should be completed in its entirety, with a focus on:

· Problem solving or reasoning techniques.

· Hands-on math and inquiry-based science activities.

· Inquiry-based learning for integrating cross-disciplinary skills and developing meaningful science learning progressions.

· Central concepts and structures of the field, based on science standards.

· Incorporating communication skills into the thinking process.

APA style is not required, solid academic writing is expected.

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Clinical Field Experience C: Field of Engineering Lessons

. at least 5 hours in the field to support this assignment.

While your mentor teacher is working with the rest of the class, engage with the small group of students that was identified in Topic 3 on an engineering or STEM lesson or activity. Use your differentiated and engagement strategies where you see fit.   

After the engineering or STEM lesson or activity, in 250-500 words, summarize and reflect upon your experiences being sure to:

· Describe your initial conversation with the mentor teacher, including how the small group was chosen.

· Describe each differentiation and engagement strategy you planned, explaining your choices in relation to the needs of students within the small group.

· Reflect upon your experience using the identified strategies with the small group during the science lesson or activity.

· Discuss how the lesson incorporated engineering into the main content area. What field of engineering did the lesson support?

· Discuss how the mentor teacher may have integrated engineering with math and science together. If there was no integration, how would you integrate these three subject areas?

· Explain how you will use your findings in your future professional practice

In addition to the above activity and reflection, speak with your mentor teacher about assisting during another upcoming lesson to help you prepare for the Topic 6 assignment.  This lesson should be a STEM lesson or activity; preferably one that incorporates technology. With your mentor teacher, decide if you will target the same small group of students, select a new group of students, or if you may teach to the entire class. Ask your mentor teacher which state standards and learning objectives he or she will be using so you can prepare a lesson for the class or small group. 

Spend any remaining field experience hours for this topic observing and/or assisting your mentor teacher with instructional tasks in the classroom.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

Engineering Lesson Plan

4.. If you have ever watched children at play, you know they are captivated with building things and taking them apart. In other words, children are natural-born engineers. When children engineer in a school setting it helps them build science, math, and problem-solving skills.

Based upon the students in your field experience classroom, revise your math lesson plan from Topic 2 to integrate engineering concepts. Select a grade-appropriate engineering standard using your state’s standards, or standards from the Next Generation Science Standards. Your lesson plan should be completed in its entirety, with a focus on:

· Incorporating developmentally-appropriate general engineering concepts into the instruction and instructional activities.

· Clearly identifying what you would do to support a student with exceptionalities (you may select and identify the student’s exceptionalities on the lesson plan).

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected