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Online Facilitation Plan Caplan
Online Facilitation Plan Caplan
Timeframe / Dates of Initiative: January- March (45 min. a day about 3 times a week or more)
Suggested Time Frame (Click here for 2016 Calendar)
January (Week 1 and 2) Session 1
January (Week 3 and 4)- February (Week 1) Session 2
February (Week 2) Session 3
February (Week 3 and 4)- March (Week 1 and 2) Session 4
March (Week 3) Mays Chapel STEM Fair Judging/Family STEM
Night
May (Week 2) Winning Teams from 4th and 5th Grade will
compete at the BCPS STEM Fair
Short Description of Initiative (limit one paragraph): This is a blended unit plan to lead fourth grade students through the scientific
process. Students in a 1:1 classroom will be grouped by interest and varying ability levels and will use their BCPS HP laptop to
navigate the online and F2F components of the unit. Students will complete a whole class investigation about paper airplanes that
will introduce each step of the scientific method and will prepare them to work in teams to complete an investigation of their
choosing. Each team’s presentation will be completed on Microsoft Office 365 so students will have access to their work both at
home or in class and teammates can work collaboratively on the same document. Each section is separated into parts based on
steps of the scientific method. Each part is color-coded based on whether the activity will be taught Face-to-Face (F2F) or Online
(either at home or in class). Each team’s presentation will be completed on Microsoft Office 365 so students will have access to their
work both at home or in class and teammates can work collaboratively on the same document. By the end of this unit, each team of
There are a number of overarching objectives that are applicable to each week. They are:
Students will conduct an investigation to identify the steps of the scientific method
Maryland State Science Standards:
o 1.0 Skills and Processes
A. Scientific Inquiry:
1. Access and process information from readings, investigations, and/or oral communications.
2. Recognize and develop scientific claims that can be tested in well-designed investigations.
3. Recognize the elements of a simple well-designed investigation.
4. Analyze and develop a well-designed investigation.
6. Collect, organize, and accurately display data collected from investigations.
9. Communicate findings from hands-on investigations and print and non-print resources.
C. Applications of Science:
3. Design, plan, and construct objects in response to a particular need or problem.
4. Evaluate and modify designs and products created to solve a problem and explain how one solution
can cause other problems.
Session 2: Design a Participants apply their Put What is a Testable Question? Part 1: Testable Questions
STEM Investigation: understanding of PowerPoint Presentation by Carson Create a List of Possible STEM Questions to
Questions, Variables, manipulated and responding Elementary onto Nearpod to present to Investigate on ActivInspire Flipchart (Individual F2F):
Research/Note-Taking, variables to analyze scientific students and get student feedback Have students brainstorm a list of possible questions
and Scientific Claim questions. throughout the activity by thinking about the following questions:
What do you wonder about the world around
Students will revise not VoiceThread Presentation with a not you?
testable questions to create testable question from our class- What problems do you face in your everyday
testable questions. generated list on each slide. life?
After about 5 minutes of brainstorming, have
Students will form Google Science Fair: Idea Springboard students share out their questions to add to a class
investigation groups based list on the flipchart.
on similar interests. Topic Selection Wizard from Science
Buddies Website Introduction to Testable Questions using the
Students will develop PowerPoint (Whole Group & Partners F2F): Students
testable questions to STEM Ideas Padlet will learn about the format of testable questions. Use
investigate. gradual release method to practice turning not
Create BCPS One Turn-In for students to testable questions into testable questions. Work
Students will develop a submit their team’s testable question together to develop a testable question for our whole
well-designed investigation class airplane investigation.
by identifying
independent, dependent, ActivInspire Flipchart used to introduce Revising Questions Homework Assignment using
and model each step of the scientific VoiceThread (Individual Assessment AT
and controlled variables.
method. HOME/ONLINE): Students will revise our class list of
questions so that they are all testable. Each student
Students will research their
Jeopardy PowerPoint Game from BCPS should revise at least two questions with a video,
topic by accessing and
Curriculum audio, or text explanation added to each slide.
processing information from
(Formative Assessment)
videos, websites, and
Online STEM PowerPoint Presentation
readings.
Template for each group on Office 365 Part 2: Choosing Topics & Forming Groups
Create a Google Doc with links for each Choosing Topics and Groups with Google Science
group’s presentation so they are easily Fair, Topic Selection Wizard, and Padlet (Individual
Part 4: Research
Part 2: Procedure