Using Technology to Boost Student Learning of Energy Concepts

Stacy MaynardTwitter: @smaynar2

www.stacytmaynard.wordpress.comhttp://edmodo.com/stacymaynard

smaynar2@hotmail.com419-343-3363

Why Students Need the Common Core

• Need for Common Core– It is a global market meaning my job is going to be

filled by 1:1billion rather than 1:100 potential applicants.

Agenda

Welcome, Cooperative LearningEngage: Sound stationsExplore – Noise in the communityExplain – Technology, PBL & 5-E ModelExtend – NGSS & ELA Evaluate – Socrative Exit Ticket & Raffle

Take Away

Apply concepts to your own needs.Critique a key point and Develop a Logical

Argument. Contemplate how ELA can become a part of

your Science Unit.Integrating Technology everyday into your

curriculum.How PBL and the 5-E Learning Model can make

it all work.

Who am I and Who are You?

Me?

You?• Google Forms Survey Google Docs • Open Forms, create, paste URL onto Doc. C/P

into tiny URL, C/P new URL for students’ use.

Wordle

• Wordle

• What are ways you could use Wordle as a writing prompt in your science class?

Anyone know how to do this?

• Medieval Help Desk

Cooperative Learning Activity

Mix, Pair, Share• “What is one way you are proud of using

technology in your classroom?”

1. Write down your response onto the notecard.2. Begin walking around the room.3. Stop when the music ends, share your response

with an elbow buddy.4. Begin the process again.

Engage + Testable ELA Claims

• Sound Stations– Engage in exploration and collecting evidence

before I provide details.– Illustrate, Claim, Evidence, (Reasoning?) Yes!

– Explore, Write, Communicate, Debate, Research• ELA Common Core Claims

Explore & PBL

• PBL ExplainedHarmful sounds in the community: Sound Pollution– Critical thinking, – Collaboration, – CommunicationProblem: Community is complaining about noise made by a newly constructed wind turbine.

Explain – Technology

• Necessary to advance students as 21st C. learners and have the ability to connect later in life skills.

• How have you taught your students to use their primary source of information (the Internet)?

• Provides an opportunity to engage multi-cultural learning experiences regardless of demographic.

• Assists in cross-curricular implementation; a significant factor in NGSS and Common Core.

Explain – PBL & 5-E Learning Model

• Student driven – Teacher facilitated– Driving question is created by students.– Method of problem solving is developed by

students. (student-led investigations)– Technology and evaluating evidence is part of the

investigation.– Formative assessment is on-going throughout the

unit. Creating artifacts and checking for understanding drives instruction.

5-E Learning Model

• Models the Constructivist Learning Theory• Formative Assessment is on-going; throughout the

unit.• Begins with the end in mind; modeling Project

Based Learning.• Its origins can be traced to the early 20th C. and

Johann Herbart who studied the benefits of an instructional model that begins with student current knowledge and how new ideas realate. (Herbart, 1901)

Engage

Explore

Explain

Extend

Explain: 5 E Learning Cycle Model

Evaluate

Inquiry-based Learning Model

“5-E Learning Cycle” Model (Trowbridge and Bybee 1990)

PD session – 5-E example

• Cooperative Learning – Mix, Pair, Share• Engage – Sound stations• Explore – Noise in the community• Explain – Technology, PBL & 5E• Extend – NGSS & ELA • Evaluate – Socrative Exit Ticket & Raffle

Extend – NGSS & ELA

• Describe 3 reading strategies that you have used in your science class. Explain why you like these particular strategies.

• Share responses with a partner.

Let’s make a prediction about the upcoming text…

• We will be reading a poem called “Sound.”• Use the word splash vocabulary to write a

prediction statement about what the text may be about.

• Share with a partner.• Read the text and see how close your

prediction was.

Word Splash

Vibration

Hummmm

Energy

Slow

Sound

HighLow

Socrative

• Exit Ticket• Benefits– Immediate feedback– Grading is done– Adapt lesson based on results

Socrative

Thank you and Good Day

• Contact Information:Stacy Maynard

Twitter: @smaynar2www.stacytmaynard.wordpress.com

http://edmodo.com/stacymaynardsmaynar2@hotmail.com

419-343-3363Ida Elementary School: Ida, MI