Science Lessons for Inquiry-focused Instruction 1. Identify the Scientific Concept: What scientific concept/principle should students learn from this lesson? Use indicators from the Standards, including both skills and processes. 2. Identify a Real-World or Practical Application Related to the Concept: It can be a problem students can solve or a decision students can make or a question students can answer Posing the challenge is the heart of the Engagement. Students become motivated as activities are described. Students access prior knowledge. Motivational activities include: a demonstration by the teacher and/or student, a reading from a current media release, a science journal, literature, analyzing a graphic organizer, etc. 3. Provide Opportunities for Students to Explore, Collect and Record Information: Students may gather information from: a) lab work, and/or b) books/journals and/or, c) interviews and/or d) the internet, etc. The Exploration will be activities designed so students can collect information and build skills they will use to complete an Extension activity. Students will read for information and perform an investigation. 4. Students Develop a Series of Questions based on the Exploration Activities: Students answer these questions through opportunities to design investigations and implement the set of procedures they write. 5. Students Evaluate Data and Provide Explanations: Help students analyze data, guide their thinking as they develop meaning and understanding, compare class data and ideas, and critique conclusions. Teachers should modify explanations as required, add information to enhance understanding, or move to a related, more complex concept. 6. Evaluation Occurs Throughout the Lesson: Evaluations provide opportunities for students to demonstrate and check their understanding of the concepts. Scoring tools developed by teachers and students target what students must know and do. Consistent use of scoring tools improves learning. A final evaluation of important concepts, skills and processes may conclude the lesson. Unit/Lesson Plan Title: Primary Subject Integrated Subjects Grade Level Length of Unit/Lesson Research Sources Thermal Energy Math/science 6 8 days Solar oven webquest https://home.comcast.net/~sdelbono/solar/newpage1.htm http://science.nsta.org/enewsletter/2006-05/ss0601_54.pdf Unit/Lesson Summary Students will investigate the three different methods that thermal energy is transferred (convection, conduction, and radiation) Key Vocabulary conduction, convection, radiation, thermal energy, kinetic, potential, energy, heat, temperature Essential Standards/NCSCOS Essential Questions Materials/Resources Needed Exploration/Engagement Activities 6P.3.1 Illustrate the transfer of heat energy from warmer objects to cooler objects using examples of conduction, radiation, and convection and the effects that may result P.6.3.3 Explain the suitability of materials for use in technological design based on a response to heat (to include conduction, expansion, and contraction How does heat transfer? Why does water heat up when placed on a burner? Compare and contrast convection, conduction, and radiation? If you had to come up with the fastest way to heat up your soup for lunch, explain which method would you use. popsicles, ice, salt solar oven-computer webquest beakers, pennies, food coloring Tell students that we will use knowledge of thermal energy to make a tornado, make some smores, and freeze a popsicle within minutes. Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction Assigning jobs for cooperative learning. Recorders, time keepers, shakers, probers, team leader. ESOL/EC shadow high functioning for language struggles. Give templates for students to fill in. Cross Curricular Integration Math: Measurements, comparing, graphing Writing: graphing and explanation of information SS: The change of life allowed with the invention of refrigeration. Students will create lab write up for each activity. Exit cards will be given to create new hypothesis after each initial lab. Pretest, posttest, Assessments: •Performance-based •Formative •Summative Extension Activities Created by Email Extension labs available for student who are able to successfully able to complete in class activities. Jaime Pacilio, Tina Holman, Kathy Boyd pacilioja@rss.k12.nc.us