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Lesson
Plan Template
Lesson
Plan Sample Examples of
Objectives The Poster
Project
Goal: For participating
teachers to integrate concepts and innovative pedagogies learned and
experienced in the institute into their curriculum. Each teacher
will develop two lesson plans to be taught in the first semester of the
'08 - '09 school year. A “lesson plan” as we define it, means a
typical high school or middle school “class” of about forty five
minutes. The plans do not have to be consecutive in terms of
subject or concept.
Plan: During the workshop,
teachers will learn nanotechnology concepts, become aware of and
knowledgeable about the use of nanotechnology, and review pedagogical
issues related to teaching and learning. Teachers will develop
two lesson plan ideas (new lessons or modifications of lessons already
taught) - see Lesson Plan Requisites below for
details.
Teachers may work
collaboratively on any part of these requirements. They are expected to
leave the workshop with lesson plan ideas that can be integrated into
their own curriculum and reflect their state’s standards.
Curriculum Component
Requisites: TWO Lesson Plans
Meet
with fellow participants (shared grade level or discipline) to develop
lesson plan ideas that reflect what you have learned in the
Nanotechnology Summer Institute and which meet your curriculum
requirements and goals.
The lesson plan ideas should reflect components of the workshop that
have meaning to your everyday practice, utilize Internet resources, and
incorporate some elements of inquiry-based instruction. Inquiry-based
instruction is a pedagogical approach that accesses students’ prior
knowledge, engages students in a topic, allows students to explore the
topic and develop questions to investigate, promotes students’
investigation of their questions through data collection, promotes
students’ explanations based on investigation evidence, challenges
students to elaborate on a topic by applying their learning to new
problems or situations, and affords time for evaluation (formative
assessment) to benefit the teacher and students.
You will be sharing your
preliminary ideas for your lessons by creating an informal poster(sample
from another STEM ED institute) to be put on display on the last
day of the Nanotechnology Summer Institute. Materials for the
poster will be provided. More details are provided below.
The fine print:
When citing materials and resources, please make sure that
you cite them specifically so that others can easily access the
materials. This includes specific URL's and complete bibliographic
information. Please check your lessons for errors. A bit of
advice for your two lessons: keep them simple and design them so
that they are useful to you or one of your colleagues. You need
not write out an entire unit, a month-long plan, a quarter
outline - or any of that. Just two lessons.
Please
Note: For participants seeking THREE CREDITS and a
GRADE for this course:
Participants who
opt to take the Nanotechnology Summer Institute for three credits
(instead of PDP’s or other forms of continuing ed units) are required
to write two formal lessons and submit them to our online forum by October
15th, 2008. As a follow up, please submit
an informal evaluation/reflection (a few paragraphs) of the two lessons
to our online forum by December 15th.
Also required: Daily Reflective
Feedback and Formal Evaluation Forms
Lesson
Plan Template
Lesson
Plan Sample Examples of
Objectives The Poster
Project
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