DAILY STEAM Lesson Plan
EDU 573: Instructional Methods
Daily STEAM Lesson Plan- Development Part III
Taya Hervey-McNutt
Dr. Hau Nguyen – Course Instructor
Strayer University
February 20, 2022
DAILY STEAM Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan-Daily STEAM Lesson
Teacher’s Name Professor Allen
Date of Lesson 14-02-2022
Time of Lesson 10:05 a.m.
Subject The concept is Interdisciplinary Plan
Factors that can affect what you can teach
The first factor is class size. The classroom is small, which makes it very convenient to teach the subject. The small class size will help increase student engagement and make them have a higher ability to adapt to educational and intellectual challenges that they will likely face. The next factor is time. Over the years, it has been deduced that the time of the day significantly impacts students’ achievement. The selected time is suitable as it matches their scores and learning style preferences. The other factor is space. Students will be placed at a safe distance from one another to ensure they are in a tidy and clean environment, which will make them more focused and have motivation towards the lesson.
Class Demographics
There are 402 students. Their average age is six years. There are a total of 218 girls and 184 boys. On average, the economic status of the students in the middle.
The ability levels of the students are as follows: visual learners, auditory learners, writing learners, and kinesthetic learners.
The school setting is learner-centered. This is the case since the learning institution assesses students’ needs, for instance, allowing students to create their own meaning according to the previous knowledge.
A brief summary of the schedule is 8:20-9:00 as arrival time, 9:25 clean up, 10:00 – 10:45 STEAM talk, and 10:45 to 11:00, individual/partner work, 11:15 dismissal.
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The teachers’ qualities include love for their work, creativity, flexibility, patience, sense of humor, and compassion.
Three potential advantages to teaching this mix of students.
In this environment, teachers mix students with mixed abilities, which allows them to learn and accept their differences. A teacher will have an easy time placing the students into discussion groups or engaging the class in the discussion because each student has their own perspective on things. The high-level students can assist lower-level learners by encouraging and modeling them.
Two potential challenges to teaching this mix of students.
Teachers face the challenge of teaching effectively because they will be required to know every student’s ability and identify a suitable way of teaching them.
It is possible that teachers may feel out of touch with the learners when they post negatively unintended outcomes.
Scope
● The time to teach this lesson.
● Classroom resources
● How this lesson plan fits into either a single-subject curriculum or connects as an interdisciplinary plan
1. The lesson will be taught at 10:05 a.m. Usually, students tend to be better focused on learning at this time of the day. This is normally the time when many institutions give important learning tasks. This is also the time when many institutions issue significant tests to their kindergarten learners.
2. The classroom resource will be a science lab where they will have access to scientific tools to help them during the scientific inquiry process; this is, observing, measuring, and recording their outcomes. Examples of the scientific tools required are the thermometer, magnifying scale, and measuring tape.
3. The lesson plan fits into an interdisciplinary plan. The lesson plan combines lessons in different disciplines around one theme. Different ideas related to a common theme are assimilated, and they are then taught to students.
Measurable Objectives
Preparing students for testing. The Common Core Standards require that students go through testing. The first way to achieve this will be through developing games that incorporate questions such as introducing escape rooms,
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science board games, hands-on quizzes/tests, etc. Additionally, students will learn how to develop test-taking skills by asking them to support their ideas with examples of information from their textbooks and through the exploration of research.
These games will allow the teacher to test and quiz the students in a more interactive way as opposed to just sitting at a desk and taking a test. For example, the students are locked into the classroom the minute class begins. They then all have to work together in order to “get out” of class. Using the knowledge from the materials that they have been learning, the students have to complete a series of games or find clues in the classroom that they have to put together, in order to figure out and solve the big problem to get out of class.
This measures not only summatively, but formatively as well because the teacher is also able to assess how each student handles the situation individually, how does the student input? Are they able to complete the final question or do they just copy the answer? The teacher is then also capable of measuring what students still need help and which ones are going to be ready.
Using more interactive and hands-on learning could potentially increase the students confidence in learning which in return could also potentially increase their confidence in test taking skills. This can be measured through comparing the students’ new scores to their old ones as well as observing their test taking behaviors.
The next objective will be aligning practices with The Common Core Standards.
Using the TeacherStep program, students may be more engaged when the traditional lecture format is eliminated, allowing the teachers to give the learners more chance to collaborate as outlined in the Common Core Standards.
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Perceiving standards as opportunities. It is very hard for teachers to teach according to the standards because they seem limiting. However, with the help of this objective, the teaching standards will be used as guidelines and tools to assist them in narrowing down what they are expected to teach. Following this, a new curriculum, instructions, and assessment plan that meets the standards and includes students will be introduced.
Methodology for Measuring Learning
Studio portfolios; how students put their knowledge to work, and their performance can tell a lot about authentic learning.
Students will develop their portfolios which will be assessed to show clear patterns of their growth and performance. Throughout the process of creating portfolios, their goals will be reflected, and they will get the opportunity to participate in some degree of self-assessment. Afterward, students will be required to make presentations, where they will discuss their work and validate their ideas in front of an audience. It will also show how well the students know how to use school facilities and tools such as sticky notes and slides. The learners can submit copies of the slides and other materials for review.
Finally, learners will be given memos to gather data and apply their imagination to weave texts from various perspectives. The memos will be created by editing them to include a description of the memo context, and learners will write in them and submit them when they finish.
Technology Integration
Interactive whiteboards: An interactive whiteboard is similar to a touchscreen whiteboard that can show images and videos. They are effective tools for engaging every student in an interactive lesson.
Digital presentations: The teacher and students can use tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint to develop multimedia presentations; they can also be used to share the work of students. The school can also encourage students to use Google Docs to collaborate on one multimedia project even when they are at home.
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Online research: The teacher will give the students an opportunity to carry out online research for their projects. Here, teachers can introduce students to the Web Quest Model, which has an unlimited number of activities for students.
The use of technology will encourage the students to work as a team as well as enable them to learn even when they are not in school.
It can also enable swift and easy sharing of information, which will help save more time for more learning in the long run.
Should the technology be unavailable during teaching time, it would be monumental to have additional copies of the data elsewhere. The backup plan would be the 3-2-1 rule; three data copies, stored in two storage devices, and one remotely located, i.e., inside my phone.
Instructional Strategies and Procedures
Lesson Introduction (Beginning/Warm-Up)
Beginning with a question. Ask the class what they already know about a topic, or ask them what they think about the topic. One way to do this is by asking the entire class or creating small group discussions. Questions are an effective way of making them think.
Teaching the Main Lesson (Guided and Independent Practice/Middle)
Here, I will pose exercises for the students to complete by themselves. Thereafter, I as their instructor will help to guide them and do the exercises together, step-by-step, and check that they perform each step correctly. This practice helps prepare learners for independent practice (AISNSW, 1).
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Lesson Closure (Ending)
Using Today I Learned To (TILT), an effective way to bring together everything learned; TILT postures will be introduced in class so that students will get an opportunity to reflect on what they learned during the lesson.
Transition into Assessments During Instruction
Each learner will be given intelligence, achievement, preference, behavioral assessment, and aptitude tests. They will help give data on the learners’ needs, strengths, interests, and preferences. It will help have details of the learners’ functional, and academic performance.
Responses to the Needs of Different Types of Learners (3 Examples)
Identifying the various learning styles in the class. In this classroom, there is a chance that some learners are focused on the content, while others have learning disabilities. As a teacher, I will always be aware of how I will be resenting the curriculum. Accordingly, I will be aware of how the information is supposed to be presented. I will ensure I spend time getting to know them better to know their interests, needs, and learning styles (Boender, 2).
Give them an uncommon experience. A teacher who gives an uncommon experience to their students is rewarded by being given back an uncommon effort, and attitude (Boender, 2). In this regard, I can transform the class into a spy headquarters, where the learners will participate in reviewing skills they learned in the previous lessons. For example, lowercase and uppercase matching.
Allow them to work at their own pace, and apply a multisensory method. Learners understand best when they are given the freedom to work at their own pace. I will allow the students to build their skills at their own pace, give them several hands-on, and multisensory activities; high-level engagement. This approach will enable them to stay focused,
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and maintain their attention on the task before them (Boender, 2).
Strategies for Inclusion of All Students
Create a behavior management strategy. There is a possible occurrence of disruptive classroom behaviors that can impact the learners. Creating a behavioral management strategy will assist, identify, and prepare the instructor for the inevitable moment when disruptive behaviors occur (Lathan, 3). Afterward, the plan will be given to the students, and their parents or guardians.
Use various instructional formats. Some learners are visual, text, and orally taught learners, while others use a combination of them all (Lathan, 3). By using different mediums, and materials, every student in the class will be included.
Remediation Activities for Identified At-Risk Students
Giving alternatives for tutoring. There are two ways of accomplishing this for this class: setting up a system for peer tutoring, where struggling students get paired with those who excel, and setting up a method where they will learn online with the help of tools such as digital curriculum.
Stress reviewing in a new way. After instructing, teachers can reverse the roles and ask the students to explain the criteria to them. This can help assess the retention as well as build up the students confidence and public speaking skills, public being the classroom.
Assist them with study, and organization habits. Here, the class will be taught how to use graphic organizers, effective ways of note-taking, and learners’ not organization.
Using differentiated instruction in the class. This is among the best remediation methods and can help minimize the learners who require remediation.
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Enrichment Activities for Identified Gifted Students
Giving them more challenging tasks. These students can be given extra rigorous tasks such as more complex math equations. This will assist them to use their knowledge in different ways, thinking more deeply to get their brains stimulated, and developing a deeper comprehension.
Pair them with an equal partner. It is good to teach these students social skills, but it is also good that they are given a chance to work with someone with the same ability as theirs. This will ensure they do not feel isolated and create relationships to help them develop interpersonal skills on their ability level (Hance, 4).
Provide them options in enrichment work. Giving these learners a choice of activities will give them a sense of ownership to assist them to maintain their focus on task completion (Hance, 4).
Rationales for Using Both Formative and Summative Assessments with Specific Examples
In this lesson, formative assessment is used to conduct in-progress evaluations of the learners’ comprehension, their learning needs, and academic progress for example idea comparisons. Formative assessments have assisted know concepts that learners are struggling to comprehend, and the skills that have difficulty acquiring. In order to ensure that the students are actually learning and developing test- taking skills, a formative assessment will be conducted on top of a summative assessment in order to observe what behaviors the student may display while taking the examination.
Summative assessments have been used in this class to evaluate learners’ learning progress, and achievement at the end of the specific instructional period, for example, final exams, tests, and end-of-class projects. They have been useful in offering the learners detailed, specific, and useful information i.e. tests scores. They have also encouraged them to focus on their strengths, and become more aware of their learning needs, and interests.
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References
1. AISNSW. (2021). Principles of instruction – Guided practice.
https://www.aisnsw.edu.au/teachers-and-staff/supporting-students/foundations-of-
2. Boender, C. (2020). Accommodating different learning styles: 3 tips to guide you. Hey,
Teach!
https://www.wgu.edu/heyteach/article/accommodating-different-learning-styles-3-tips-
3. Lathan, J. (2021, April 30). 4 proven inclusive education strategies for educators (Plus 6
helpful resources). The University of San Diego.
https://onlinedegrees.sandiego.edu/inclusive- education-strategies/
4. Hance, M. (2020, January 14). Ways to keep gifted students motivated in the classroom.
Graduate Programs for Educators. “https://www.graduateprogram.org/2020/01/ways-to-
