Cambria

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__Unit: 7th Grade Forces__


 * __Thinking level:__
 * Calculate- L1
 * Graph- L2
 * Draw conclusions- L3
 * Apply concepts- L4
 * Students will be able to calculate force.
 * Students can utilize a graph to see how mass and acceleration are related to force.
 * Students can draw conclusions when given a set of data or information and base their knowledge of how force, mass, and acceleration are related to draw conclusions about information.
 * I can give them real world examples to apply the concept of force they have learned to apply it and see how the information is used and how to apply is properly.
 * My students will hopefully follow Marzano's so that they can be actively engaged in their learning. I am hoping to make the activities interactive enough that students will want to be engaged. In the introductory lessons last week I was changing the learning technique every 10-15 minutes and getting students up out of their seats so that they would be more engaged.
 * My intent is to show students tools that I not only use, but that they can use to be effective in the 21st century. I try to utilize a variety of resources in my classroom so that students are aware of how to appropriately use technology. Most students today think that technology is only used for pleasure, whereas it can also be used for research and real life.

In the classroom I plan to implement technology the following ways to assist with questioning:

1. Use questions that kids ask in class and have them stop to research them right then. 2. Create a lesson whereby the students are given the GLE and they are responsible for coming up with questions that will guide us to the answers and websites that can be used to find the questions. 3. Use articles to figure out how they apply to the GLE and explain the thought process behind me choosing it.

Some authentic learning that might occur in the classroom is real-world experiences of science in the world as in physical and chemical changes that occur in the everyday world. By doing so students can connect things they learn in the classroom and make them relevant. Science is one of the easier areas to accomplish this in because there are things that occur daily that can be used as examples and students can draw on that knowledge.