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Endo/Exothermic Reaction Lessonhttp://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/lessonplans/
Middle School Chemistry.com was a site referenced during my placement at MacDonald Middle School. I appreciated the NGSS- based lesson plans provided by this site; it also included a materials section for teachers and students per lab activity, as well as Student Activity Sheets, an Answer Key to the Activity Sheet(s), document and video previews of the lesson, etc. A link to the general site is provided above.
http://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/lessonplans/chapter6/lesson7
One of the lessons I planned and executed for my Placement at MacDonald Middle School was from the site link provided above, with a few modifications. The lesson plan is embedded into this page, to the left. The activity sheet (pgs. 1-4) were provided to the students as well as lab materials with which they executed the lab for this lesson. One of the modifications applied to this lesson omitted the "Taking it Further" section and correlating activity. The correlating activity was a reiteration of the lesson my mentor teacher had taught the day before (and he felt the students did well enough that a reiteration of this activity was unnecessary). The "Exit Ticket" added into my lesson plan was another reason why the correlating activity was unnecessary- the Exit Ticket question asked the same question, but did not require additional chemical reactions.
A few more sites I would love to explore more and further apply in the future to lessons:
Both sites contain NGSS aligned lesson plans, as well as other additional digital resources
Here is a link to a SPED resource page, including informative modules and other articles: https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/
GLT 2 for website.pdf
Creature Feature Science StartersScientist Spotlight Science StartersClassroom Norms/Expectations
Classroom Norms/Expectations
Every time students enter the classroom, they are expected to engage the Science Starter (which is projected with the itinerary of the day). Science Starters may seek to be a "team building" experience, may add to their knowledge about science not learned in this class, or will connect to the content being studied that day. One example of a team building Science Starter is the "Talk about it Tuesday" where students share something fun that happened to them the weekend before that class, something fun during the week, or something fun that will happen the weekend immediately proceeding that Tuesday. An example of a science themed non content science starter is the "Creature Feature", where students learn basic zoological facts about exotic organisms. For a complete Slideshow of all of the Creature Features I tried out during my internship year, please see Slide link to the left. Another example of a science starter I got the opportunity to try during my internship year is called the "Scientist Spotlight", and I learned about it initially from my mentor at MacDonald Middle School. For a full slide show of scientists I featured, organized by topic, please see Slide link to the left.
During discussions, students are expected to follow the "Family Feud Classroom" norms. This means that the student sharing is expected to reply with an answer besides "I don't know" (even if it doesn't make sense to their classmates) and that student's classmates need to acknowledge it as a "good answer" (silently, so that mutual respect is maintained when responses are shared).
When the teacher is giving class-wide instruction/ facilitating a class discussion, or during the first/last 10 minutes of class, students cannot interrupt class to ask to use the restroom. The reason for this is that my mentor allows students to use the restroom when they would like (assuming they check in with her) but expects that they use the restroom during passing hour or can wait until the class discussion is finished (they do not normally last long enough for this to be an issue).
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