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Case 4: College Mentors for Kids STEM Lesson 5th GradeLesson PlanOverviewIn this lesson, we plan to teach our students about our solar system, the planets, and objects within it. We will introduce the topic and send them on a scavenger hunt through the VOSS interactive area, which contains information and replicas of the different planets. After that we will wrap up and see what they have learned using the tool Poll Everywhere.Learners15-20 5th grade students from the program College Mentors For Kids.These students have been identified as “at-risk.” The learning environment will be a classroom in the Discovery Research Learning Center on the Purdue campus. We will also be outside in the Visiting Our Solar System (VOSS) interactive area. Our objectives are listed below, but the general goal for having this activity is to introduce the students to STEM topics including, in this case, astronomy. The lesson contains a scavenger hunt to help the students acquire basic information about our solar system.ObjectivesGiven access to the VOSS interactive area, the student will be able to answer questions in a “passport” about our solar system, the planets, and objects within it with 100% accuracy.Using Poll Everywhere on an iPad, the student will be able to answer 5 questions about the information they learned from the scavenger hunt and the presentation with 80% accuracy.Standards5.2.1 Recognize that our earth is part of the solar system in which the sun, an average star, is the central and largest body. Observe that our solar system includes the sun, moon, seven other planets and their moons, and many other smaller objects like asteroids and comets.Materials1 paper passport per student - 10 Pages- 1 page for name, 8 pages for planets and 1 for the sun and smaller objects (stars/asteroids)PencilsStickers (enough for one of each planet/solar system element per student)1 internet accessible device per student/mentor pair (iPad/laptop)ProceduresStudents and mentors should be transported to the Discovery Research Learning Center. They will meet inside the first floor classroom for the presentation.Show the students the video that gives them background information on the solar system.Enthusiastically introduce the scavenger hunt. Students will work in pairs to complete the hunt. They will be given a passport and pencil. They will get a stamp for every station they go to that features a planet or other feature of the solar system after they read the placard and answer the question.Once they are done, students should check in with their mentors to verify their results (i.e. questions are answered correctly and the right stamps go with the right planets).The group should head back into the atrium once everyone has completed the activity. Poll Everywhere will be used to informally assess students on the information learned during the presentation and scavenger hunt.Alternative steps to adapt for different audiences or environments would include providing physical assistance to those who need it to get from station to station, and reading for those who might have trouble with that. Mentors would be one resource for that.AssessmentStudents will use Poll Everywhere to respond to questions about the information they learned from the scavenger hunt and the presentation. This would be somewhat informal given the fun atmosphere we would want to maintain, but it would give us a good idea of what they learned.ReferencesBakas, C., Mikropoulos, T. (2003) Design of virtual environments for the comprehension of planetary phenomena based on students' ideas, International Journal of Science Education, 25:8, 949-967Bredeson, C. (2008). What Is the Solar System? Berkeley Heights NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc. Cole, J. (1990). The Magic School Bus: Lost in the solar system. New York: Scholastic Inc.Crockett, et al. (2011), Literacy is Not Enough: 21st-Century Fluencies in the Digital Age (pp. 17-21)Druyan, A., (1997). Passport to the Solar System Sagan: Planet Walk, Sciencenter, Ithaca, NY. Retrieved from HYPERLINK "" \h .Indiana Department of Education. (2010). Science Grade 5: Standard 2 Earth Science. Retrieved from . Inspiration for Lesson PlanWe found inspiration through a friend of Gabrielle’s who worked on the VOSS- Visiting Our Solar System model through Engineering Projects in Community Service, or EPICS. We knew we wanted to work with younger students so we went to the Department of Education and looked at the Indiana standards for fourth and fifth grade to look for solar system standards. We decided we would do a scavenger hunt. Cindy brought each group member a pamphlet about the VOSS model. Then we decided we would use the Discovery Learning Research Center for the in class portion. A couple of the group members had worked with PollEverywhere so we decided to use that as one of our assessment tool, and have the students use iPads to answer the questions. We decided that we would use a ‘Passport’ as our scavenger hunt so the kids had something to take home and show their parents they will get a sticker for each planet after they answer a question found on the VOSS placard, and Cindy found a great example for us to use as inspiration.C. VideoLink to video: Assessment Questions:D. Summary of articles usedBakas, C., Mikropoulos, T. (2003) Design of virtual environments for the comprehension of planetary phenomena based on students' ideas. International Journal of Science Education, 25(8), 949-967.Design of virtual environments for the comprehension of planetary phenomena based on students’ ideas.This article talks about how young students form a vision of the solar system when they first learn about it in school. This image or representation is very hard to change after it has been accepted by the child. In order to give children an accurate representation of our solar system, we are taking them to the VOSS interactive area. This area provides a scaled down model of our solar system that will enable the students to see how small the planets are compared to the sun.Crockett, et al. (2011), Literacy is not enough: 21st-Century fluencies in the digital age (pp. 17-21). Newbury Park, CA: Corwin Publishing.Literacy is Not EnoughThis article explains what 21st century skills are and their importance in today's society. In order to help develop collaboration and communication in our lesson, we split the children into groups of two. Having the children work together encourages them to problem solve and learn from each other, and they not only are learning about the solar system but also about problem solving skills and collaboration. ................
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