Teacher: Karen Little Subject/Class: Science/ 5th Week Of: Oct.26-30 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Standard(s) S5P3: Students will investigate the electricity, magnetism, and their relationship. b. Determine the necessary components for completing an electric circuit. S5P3: Students will investigate the electricity, magnetism, and their relationship. b. Determine the necessary components for completing an electric circuit. S5P3: Students will investigate the electricity, magnetism, and their relationship. . c. Investigate common materials to determine if they are insulators or conductors of electricity. S5P3: Students will investigate the electricity, magnetism, and their relationship. . c. Investigate common materials to determine if they are insulators or conductors of electricity. S5P3: Students will investigate the electricity, magnetism, and their relationship. b. Determine the necessary components for completing an electric circuit. Essential Question/ Learning Goal Learning goal: Investigate the components to discover what is needed to complete a circuit. Learning goal: Investigate the components to discover what is needed to parallel and series circuit. EQ: How do we use the knowledge of conductors and insulators in our lives? EQ: How do we use the knowledge of conductors and insulators in our lives? Learning goal: investigate other energy sources.
Activating Strategy: Lesson Opener, Warm-up, Hook Discuss what the learners know about electricity. Discuss the topic at your table. Each group will state 2 things they know about electricity. Review the components in a complete, closed circuit. Think, pair and share: Why do we need to know what materials will conduct electricity and which ones don’t? Why do we need to know what conducts electricity—how do we use this knowledge in our lives? Use a pumpkin to make a complete circuit. Teaching Strategies: Procedures, Technology, Performance Tasks Group task 1: Each group will be given materials to explore to complete a circuit. Monitor groups as they make the light work. Visit each table and ask what components are needed to complete a circuit. Draw “what worked” in the science notebook. Group task 2: Use the materials provided to make a circuit that makes 2 loads work on one circuit. Then make 2 work on separate circuits. Monitor and question the tables. Have them draw each. Students will perform an investigation to determine which materials given will conduct elec.(conductors) and which materials will not conduct elec.(insulators) Record results in lab notebooks. Watch Study Jams on electricity and take quiz, Watch video about conductors and insulators on Have students write the answer to the EQ and explain in a paragraph. Group task: Investigate with potatoes in each group, will they conduct electricity Watch electricity videos on on energy sources for circuits. Summarizing Strategies: Closing Activity Let one group demonstrate a complete circuit. (closed) Use the terms energy source, wires and load. Give the name series and parallel circuits to the appropriate models. Label drawings in notebooks. Write generalization about what makes a circuit complete. Check together as a whole group the lab results. Take up paragraphs, have one good example to read aloud. Draw on alternative source of energy for a circuit in the lab notebook.
Assessment/ Evaluation Check for correct components in the complete circuit built by groups. Check notebook drawings of each circuit. Lab sheet results will be graded (daily grade) Paragraph on EQ Lab drawing Materials Needed Batteries, wires, bulbs Batteries, wires, bulbs Bags of materials, battery and Christmas light Potatoes, lemons Daily Lesson Plan Template Day & Date: Standard: Essential Question: Learning Goal: Activating Strategy: Lesson Opener: (_______ min.) Teaching Strategies: Tasks: (_______ min.)