Teacher: Paulette V.

Perez (Horizon Heights Elementary, Room 400)

Subject/Grade level: Science/ 4th Grade
Unit topic: What is force and motion?
Lesson goals: The student will understand how motion can be measured and how
forces such as push, pull, gravity and friction influence it.
Lesson title or topic: Force and Motion.
Estimated length of lesson: Approximately 45 minutes.

TEKS Standards:

The students will be able to demonstrate their understating of the vocabulary

specific to force and motion through the activity modeled after the game show
Jeopardy.

4.6D design a descriptive investigation to explore the effect of force on an object

such as a push or a pull, gravity, friction, or magnetism, 4.2F student is expected to
communicate valid oral results, 4.3A student is expected to analyze and evaluate
scientific explanations by using logical reasoning

Learning Objective(s): The student will be able to demonstrate their

understanding by drawing an example of each term.

Academic Language: force, movement, gravity, friction, inertia, newton

Grouping: This lesson will be done in groups of 3 students and one student seated
individually up at the front of the classroom. The students are seated based on
discipline, STAAR scores, and test scores from the 3rd, 6th and 9th weeks. Each group
has a student who is high and is labeled as GT, a student who is preforming at an
intermediate level, and a student who is low. The student who is seated alone at the
front of class has trouble concentrating and staying on task and having him there
allows the teacher to quickly redirect him if needed.

Materials: For this lesson we will need BrainPOP Force and Motion, Force YouTube
Video, Force and Motion vocabulary PowerPoint, https://jeopardylabs.com/play/4th-
grade-forces-and-motion2 and Science ISN.

Resources: - The materials BrainPOP Force and Motion, Force YouTube Video, and
the Force and Motion Vocabulary PowerPoint cover the TEKS 4.6D by presenting
students with what force, push, pull, gravity, friction and magnetism is in different
modalities.

-The resource Jeopardy game covers the TEKS 4.2F student is expected to
communicate valid oral results, and 4.3A student is expected to analyze and
evaluate scientific explanations by using logical reasoning by encouraging the
students to verbalize, analyze and evaluate their understanding of force and motion
to correctly answer question.

-The SISD 4th Grade Pacing Guide for science was used as a resource when the lesson
was created. It gave the opportunity to see what TEKS had to be covered during the
14th week of school.

Connections to Other Subjects: I am integrating writing into this lesson by having

students write in their interactive science notebooks (ISN). I will also be
incorporating art in my lesson by having them act out the vocabulary word.

Instructional Procedures (including differentiation and targeted support)

o Introduction: I will begin the lesson by selecting 2 student names from the cup
and ask them what they already know about force and motion. I will then ask the
students what are some examples of force and motion in everyday life.

o Teacher Modeling: I will first frame the lesson objective and setting my
expectations by presenting it to the students before the lesson. After framing the
lesson, I will introduce what force and motion is. I will then demonstrate some arm
gestures to help them remember the meaning and have them do it with me.

o Body of the Lesson: The students will first copy the definition of the vocabulary
word before going over the PowerPoint. After copying the definitions, they will
illustrate based on their understanding of the word. After that I will go over the
force and motion vocabulary PowerPoint to review the vocabulary words. I will
select a name from the cup and have them describe what they drew and why. After
we have done this, I will show them how to play Jeopardy and go over the rules and
directions.

o Guided Practice: I will guide students by modeling what I want them to do when
we are playing Jeopardy and the correct way to answer.

o Independent Practice: After guiding students on how to play, their groups will
compete to see who answers the questions correctly. The group with the most
points will win.

o Conclusion (closure): I will conclude the lesson by having them do an exit ticket
on force. They will answer the OER question using RACE, as they normally do. The
OER question is What is force? Give an example of each type of force and explain it in
detail.

Assessment: During the lesson, I will be checking for understanding with the
answers they have to the Jeopardy questions and the discussions the students had
to deduce their answers. I will go over and explain the questions that were not
answered correctly to help with comprehension of the content.

Accommodations/Modifications/Enrichment:

- Special Needs Learners: The student who is diagnosed with special needs will be
given wait time to allow him to collect his thoughts to verbalize the answer. If
needed, I will reword the question for comprehension. He will be given the
opportunity to discuss the answer with his group and if he is having a difficult time
answering the question I will allow him to discuss the answer with me first.

- English Language Learners

For students who are identified as LEP, I will be checking for understanding when I
walk around the room hearing what they are contributing to the group discussion. I
will also review the vocabulary words before starting the game, show them hand
gestures that they can do to help them remember the definition of words, and give
them an opportunity to verbalize their understanding of the vocabulary with their
groups.

- Gifted and Talented

For students who are part of the GT program, they will be given the opportunity to
develop a cartoon depicting force and motion. They need to have a caption, title, and
dialogue between characters.