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All parts must include references. Please make sure to read the full email in detail and make sure to look at all attachments. All Parts of the lesson plan must be filled out including the grade and mentor. If you are using the alternative please state the teacher’s name from the videos. If you are just making it up then please let me know so I can put my mentor’s name on it. My mentor’s name is NICOLE TARANTO and she teaches PRE-K. so if you are making it up then please put her name and age on the lesson plan. Keep in mind the lesson plan should be for ONE SPECIFIC GRADE.

Field Experience

Allocate at least 5 hours in the field to support this assignment.

While your mentor teacher is working with the rest of the class, engage with the small group of students that was identified in Topic 3 on an engineering or STEM lesson or activity. Use your differentiated and engagement strategies where you see fit.

After the engineering or STEM lesson or activity, in 250-500 words, summarize and reflect upon your experiences being sure to:

• Describe your initial conversation with the mentor teacher, including how the small group was chosen.
• Describe each differentiation and engagement strategy you planned, explaining your choices in relation to the needs of students within the small group.
• Reflect upon your experience using the identified strategies with the small group during the science lesson or activity.
• Discuss how the lesson incorporated engineering into the main content area. What field of engineering did the lesson support?
• Discuss how the mentor teacher may have integrated engineering with math and science together. If there was no integration, how would you integrate these three subject areas?
• Explain how you will use your findings in your future professional practice

In addition to the above activity and reflection, speak with your mentor teacher about assisting during another upcoming lesson to help you prepare for the Topic 6 assignment. This lesson should be a STEM lesson or activity; preferably one that incorporates technology. With your mentor teacher, decide if you will target the same small group of students, select a new group of students, or if you may teach to the entire class. Ask your mentor teacher which state standards and learning objectives he or she will be using so you can prepare a lesson for the class or small group.

Spend any remaining field experience hours for this topic observing and/or assisting your mentor teacher with instructional tasks in the classroom.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Document the locations and hours you spend in the field on your Clinical Field Experience Verification Form.

Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form in LoudCloud in the last topic. Directions for submitting can be found on the College of Education site in the Student Success Center.

Lesson Plan

If you have ever watched children at play, you know they are captivated with building things and taking them apart. In other words, children are natural-born engineers. When children engineer in a school setting it helps them build science, math, and problem solving skills.

Based upon the students in your field experience classroom, revise your math lesson plan from Topic 2 to integrate engineering concepts. Select a grade-appropriate engineering standard using your state’s standards, or standards from the Next Generation Science Standards. Your lesson plan should be completed in its entirety, with a focus on:

• Incorporating developmentally-appropriate general engineering concepts into the instruction and instructional activities.
• Clearly identifying what you would do to support a student with exceptionalities (you may select and identify the student’s exceptionalities on the lesson plan).

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

PLEASE READ:

You will work with students on an Engineering activity for this field experience. After the activity, the assignment identifies questions for you to reflect on. Strategies, incorporation of Engineering into a main content area (name and explain the specific field of Engineering), examples of Engineering Principles, integration of Engineering, Math and Science, and connection to future practice are addressed in your written summary. There is no need to videotape this activity or get mentor feedback. If possible, discuss the questions identified for next week’s lesson with your mentor.

Offer to give a copy of this field experience assignment to your mentor and get feedback because five hours for this assignment will be included on the end of course verification form that your mentor will sign. Review the grading rubric and address all components.

Resources

National Science Foundation. (2000). Inquiry thoughts, views, and strategies for the K–5 classroom. Foundations, 2. https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2000/nsf99148/pdf/nsf99148.pdf

This is an excellent resource for elementary teaching from the National Science Foundation. Review it when you get a chance. It is a good source for justifying elements of field assignments and lesson plans, especially inquiry-based learning and assessment strategies.

University of Colorado. (n.d.). Teach Engineering: STEM curriculum for K-12. https://www.teachengineering.org/#homeschool

This resource has hundreds of free Engineering lessons and activities.

Alternative. If you cannot describe your experience using the small group strategies identified in your engineering lesson or activity with a student(s) because you were not able to give the lesson, identify and describe how exploratory play and problem solving were used in your engineering lesson to address the lesson objective.

For connections to future practice, describe how exploratory play and problem solving could be used to address other content or another objective.

If you cannot describe how the mentor teacher included engineering principles because you could not observe a mentor teacher, describe how engineering principles were used in a video you watched (name the video).

If you cannot discuss how the mentor teacher integrated engineering with math and science, discuss how you integrated math and science or give suggestions for integrating math and science.