Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Assessment - Uses assessment flexibly to expand and deepen understanding of learner performance and
determines best supports for continued learner growth.
Assessment Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
The teacher will assess students by using There are many opportunities for assessment as the
observation. The teacher will be looking for students create their models. Because there are
students to be making connections to prior three students, the teacher is able to check in often,
knowledge and applying their knowledge of gravity asking small assessment questions to check for
into the construction of their model. understanding. The teacher will collect the student
Students will also be given the opportunity to reflections and check to see if students met the
complete a reflection at the end of the lesson to learning objectives.
demonstrate their understanding of what happened
and why their model worked.
Instructional Materials and Resources - Stays current in content knowledge and expands expertise in
reviewing instructional materials from the perspectives of both the discipline and individual learner needs.
Materials, Resources, and/or Technology Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
- Handouts (one for each grade level) This lesson requires a lot of materials to allow the
- Computer students to create and test their models. The
- Sketchbooks students will be able to look through the materials
- Materials to build model ( ei. boxes, cups, before they begin designing their model.
bags, string..)
- Plastic eggs with weight for testing
Instructional Methods: Selects, creates, and sequences learning experiences and performance tasks by
using a variety of instructional approaches, strategies, and technologies that make learning accessible to
all learners and support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals.
Teaching and Learning Sequence Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
- Introduce learning targets.
- Read task and handout criteria
- T-Chart - what do you know? what
do you need to know?
- Discuss the purpose of a parachute
- mini lesson on different sized
parachute, use video on youtube.
- What do you notice about the - How does this information help as you
different parachute sizes? create your own parachute?
- Real life times when you would
need a parachute?
- Students begin design process. - Draw two different designs, pick one to get
- Students construct and test their model. approved by the teacher before you can
When all students have completed their construct - draw in sketchbook.
model and are happy with their final
product, students will test their model with
a raw egg outside.
- Students will be able to test their model and
then come back inside to complete a
reflection on the process of designing,
testing, and how gravity impacted that.
Meeting students needs (differentiation, Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
extensions, modifications, accommodations) - Specific students in the classroom need to
Each student has different worksheet that is age have frequent check-ins to be successful in
appropriate and makes sure that the language is independent writing assignments. It is the
accessible to the students. teacher's responsibility to provide those
The second grade student will need extra support students with the supports they need to
because building the model and understanding why succeed and learn during instruction.
certain things are happening will be a little - The differentiation in this lesson was
advanced for the student. designed to make sure each learner is able
to relate to and access the information being
presented.
During this lesson I used technology to explain the effects of gravity on different objects. To explain the
importance of gravity, I showed students a video of an astronaut making tacos in space. Students then had
a discussion about how important gravity is in our everyday life. I also used videos to demonstrate how
parachutes of different sizes fall. Because of the unique location of the school, it is not always easy to
gather materials, as there is no store on the island. Technology makes it easy to do virtual labs and
explain abstract concepts to the students when the teacher is not able to find the materials needed.