Hanna+Blankenship

Grade level: Third Grade Subject: Science Lesson Title: Exploration and creation of a Simple Machine

Description of Lesson: This lesson will set the foundation for students to explore and search for information in regards to the key concepts of Simple Machines. In conducting their research, students will be engaged and motivated through the animated websites. Students will collaborate with peers to discuss and gain insight from the searching process and gaining newfound knowledge. In doing so, students will present or create a simple machine for their final project.

Standards: Simple Machines: Lever, pulley, wedge, wheel and axle, screw and inclined plane are simple machines that help us do work. Physical Science Concept: AK Content Standards: S.A.1, S.B.2, S.B.3, S.E.1, S.E.2

ISTE NETS-S

-Creativity and innovation -Communication and collaboration

Content area objectives: - Identify and locate different simple machines -Demonstrate how each simple machine works -Explore how each simple machine helps us do work -Design and build a model using three or more simple machines

Skills: -Classroom discussions -Peer collaborations -Internet searching and exploring -Questioning and discovery -Constructing a Simple Machine

Outcomes: Students will produce through their creativity a simple machine in a media format. This can be done in a PowerPoint, photo booth, or a media tool of their choice.

Steps of lesson plan: -KWL discussions with students about Simple Machines -Time allotted for computer time with laptops -Clear expectations and goals for final presentation -Students exploration and engagement while learning about Simple Machines -Searching and viewing information through games, websites, and visual aides -Recording of information to utilize when creating final project -Teacher support and facilitating as students learn

Technology Use: *Laptop *websites including: [] http://atlantis.coe.uh.edu/archive/science/science_lessons/scienceles1/finalhome.htm [|www.edheads.org/...simple-machines]

Customize for diverse learners: The lesson includes websites, which are both visually, and voice stimulating for students to engage and learn from when exploring Simple Machines. Students will have assistance from peers and the teacher to help facilitate their learning through the lesson.

Assessment: Formative Assessment: Observation of students as they gain ownership of their learning through this lesson. Question and answering during discussions about Simple Machines. Students discussing with peers their understanding of the content and their next steps in their discovery.

Summative Assessment: The end project would include an understanding of simple machines and a presentation of this knowledge through a media outlet.