Lesson Study Project
About the Project
In collaboration with the San Diego Science Project at UC San Diego, San Diego Unified teachers participated in a Virtual Lesson Study Project. This project was designed in mind to help improve the STEAM curriculum and to provide a cross-district professional learning opportunity for our STEAM teachers to collaborate online.
Participants reviewed the TK-K, Grade 1 and Grade 2 SDUSD STEAM curriculum. The teams used tools such as 3-Dimensional NGSS, 5E, conceptual flow, and leveled questions as they reviewed the curriculum. Participants virtually taught, debriefed and revised the lessons for online learning which are available to all teachers in SDUSD in the links below.
The lessons and resources below serve as models for how to modify our STEAM curriculum to meet students' needs in an online setting.
For highlights and lessons learned through the process, review the SDUSD STEAM Lesson Study Celebration Slides.
Thank you to all of the participants for the 2020-21 school year!
For those interested in conducting a virtual lesson study at your site, please see the Virtual Collaborative Lesson Study Participant Guide.
Lessons Learned in ONLINE Facilitation
Make student thinking visible through the use of whiteboards
Engage students through movement
Encourage student discourse and collaboration through the use of breakout rooms
Activate learning with a poll
Color-code lesson vocabulary
Add multiple visual supports (models, real objects, charts, graphs, Bitmojis, emojis, etc)
Engage students through drawing and singing
Connect relevant experiences in real time
Create opportunities for hands on-learning
Lesson 7
Lesson 10
Lesson 7
Read grade-appropriate texts and use media to describe phenomena and use as evidence to support young animals are very much, but not exactly, like their parents. Plants also are very much, but not exactly, like their parents.
Link to Revised Lesson 6 and Resources
TLC Team:
Lauren Martinez @ Bay Park Elementary
Alyssa Oberg @ Sunset View Elementary
