Germantown Middle School – Weekly Lesson Plans
Teacher: Carlson
Week of: 9/7 to 9/11
Subject: STEM
Classroom News/Due Dates:
Unit 2: Technology Literacy
Assignment due dates are highlighted in yellow.
Unit 2 Vocabulary Quiz on Thursday (A Day) and Friday (B Day).
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Standards:
Unit 2: Define Technology
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Day/Date
Bell
Schedule
Bell Work
Procedures
Objectives
TI = Teacher Input, M = Modeling, GP = Guided Practice, IP = Independent Practice
TTW = “The teacher will…”
TSW = “The students will…”
(“The student will…”)
Monday
9/8
A
Wednesday
9/9
B
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY-NO SCHOOL
Check Active
Student,
Student Email
and all teacher
websites.
Check Active
Student,
Student Email
and all teacher
websites.
ANTICIPATORY SET: How can we govern technology?
1A. Examine the
many
characteristics of
technology.
A
Friday
9/11
B
1.
TSW log into Canvas, read the announcement and go to Quizlet to review Unit 2
Terms.
2.
TSW complete the ABCs of technology and submit to Canvas for grading.
3.
TTW discuss technologies pioneers used to travel across the U.S. TSW work on
the “Life of a Pioneer” assignment due on Thursday.
Homework: Review Unit 2 Terms for the quiz on Thursday 9/10.
1. ABCs of Technology
Due in class.
2. Unit 2 quiz on
Thursday.
3. Life of a Pioneer due
Thursday.
ANTICIPATORY SET: How can we govern technology?
1A. Examine the
many
characteristics of
technology.
Thursday
9/10
Closure
ANTICIPATORY SET:
9/7
Tuesday
Assessment
Observation, Activotes
Project, Quiz, Unit Test,
Discussion, Questioning.
1.
TSW log into Canvas, read the announcement and go to Quizlet to review Unit 2
Terms.
2. TSW complete the ABCs of technology and submit to Canvas for grading.
3. TTW discuss technologies pioneers used to travel across the U.S. TSW work on the
“Life of a Pioneer” assignment due on Friday.
Homework- Review Unit 2 Terms for the quiz on Friday 9/11.
1. ABCs of Technology
due in class.
2. Unit 2 quiz on
Friday.
If you could
invent a
technology to
help your school,
what would it be
and what would it
do?
If you could
invent a
technology to
help your school,
what would it be
and what would it
do?
ANTICIPATORY SET: Why do humans create technology?
Check Active
Student,
Student Email
and all teacher
websites.
2A. Research and
report on the
evolution of
technology.
Check Active
Student,
Student Email
and all teacher
2A. Research and
report on the
evolution of
technology.
1.
2.
3.
TSW take a quiz on Unit 2 Vocabulary in Canvas.
TSW complete the Life of a Pioneer assignment and submit back to Canvas for grading.
TSW watch the videos on the Unit 2 Comp. 2 page in Canvas about the evolution of
technology.
4. TTW discuss how technology evolves and why. Students will create a timeline on the
evolution of one piece of technology.
Homework- Think about how one technology has evolved over time. Why did it evolve?
1. Unit 2 Vocab Quiz.
2. Life of a Pioneer
due.
Would you have
been able to
survive the
pioneer life?
How so?
ANTICIPATORY SET: Why do humans create technology?
1. Unit 2 Vocab Quiz.
2. Life of a Pioneer
due.
Would you have
been able to
survive the
pioneer life?
1.
2.
3.
TSW take a quiz on Unit 2 Vocabulary in Canvas.
TSW complete the Life of a Pioneer assignment and submit back to Canvas for grading.
TSW watch the videos on the Unit 2 Comp. 2 page in Canvas about the evolution of
websites.
Differentiation:
technology.
TTW discuss how technology evolves and why. Students will create a timeline on the
evolution of one piece of technology.
Homework- Think about how one technology has evolved over time. Why did it evolve?
4.
How so?
Students will be given extra time to complete assignments, direct instruction from the teacher, or printed out copies of the assignments found in Canvas.
Lesson plans and due dates may change depending on the length and complexity of assignments.