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  1. What are the essential questions relating to this topic? 

  2. How does that relate to goals and measurements?

  3. How can we teach this creatively?

 

Social Studies/ History:
When choosing your book, you can integrate Social Studies/History by picking books with themes that track the Social Studies/History Framework 

 Pre-Kindergarten–Kindergarten: Living, Learning, and Working Together
Grade 1 : True Stories and Folk Tales from America and from Around the World 
Grade2:   E Pluribus Unum: From Many ,One 
Grade 3 : Massachusetts and its Cities and Towns: Geography and History 
Grade 4 : North American Geography with Optional Standards for One Early Civilization
Grade 5 : United States History, Geography, Economics, and Government: Early Exploration to Westward Movement

 

Science Framework: 
Pick the science that is planned to be taught or the science you just taught  to re-enforce its learning

General Science Principles, all grade level
Stand 1,2,3 K-2 grade,          K2-5 grade
Stand 4 engineering and technology

 

Questions to spark the development of the Design Challenges in stories:

  •  How can we solve the problem the character from the story is having?

  • What science or math can we use to improve the direction of the story?

  • What action words can we find in the story?  Can we list them? 

  • What physical items can these words relate too? 

  • Can we make sentences out of these action words combined with engineering words  ( Design, construct, create, make…). 

What science are we studying now?  Can we Segue into the subject with our story or use our story to re-enforce what we have already covered.

Science Framework Strands ( Massachusetts):

Earth & Space

 

Strand 1

 

Energy in the Earth System                        

Materials and Energy Resources

Earth process and Cycles

Structure of the Earth

Earth in the Solar System

 

Life Science

 

Strand 2

Characteristics of Living Things

Systems in living Things

Heredity

Evolution and Biodiversity

Living things and their environment

 

Physic & Chemistry

Strand 3

State of Matter

Position and motion of objects

Forms of Energy

 

Engineering

Strand 4

Tools

Materials

Engineering Design

Simple machines

 

Mathematics Framework:

Mathematic outcomes

Mathematical reasoning is fundamental to the design and construction process.

In the lessons, we have the opportunity to ask mathematical thinking questions such as:

  • How would I draw a diagram that shows the area, dimensions, etc. of what we are doing?
  • How am I going to collect data to evaluate the design during the testing phase?
  • How would I calculate ________?
  • How would I calculate the cost of the material we need. 

In general we can ask questions that get the students thinking and probing about the following:

Dimensions

Shapes

Patterns

Number sense

Colors

Functions

Area

Grouping/Comparing

Measurements

 

 

Math Framework K-5 grade:

 

21st Century
Partnership‟s 21st Century Skills Framework, Handbook

 

 

  Prepared by  Bill Wolfson.  Copyright © 2009-2010
Last Updated  01/03/2010