ST – Mastery 35%

Strategies Planned
 Math: Estimating measurement
o Direct Instruction: Mini lesson & I Pad station
o Practicing on a skill: Estimating objects around the room station
o Organizing and managing info: Playdough station & closure
o Seeing tangible results: Measuring throughout the lesson
o Being active rather than passive: Closure & measuring objects around the room
 Reading: Cause and effect
o Drill: Anticipatory set & mini lesson
o Managing info: Anticipatory set & all stations
o Practicing a skill: All stations
o Categorizing: Anticipatory set, individual work & stations
o Practical use: The whole lesson
o Hands-on experience: Each station
 Writing: Voice
o Following directions: Mini lesson & writing assignment
o Demonstration: Providing information
o Practice: Supervise practice (shared writing)
o Immediate feedback: discussion on their writing
o Describing: Writing using the voice
 Science #1: Parts of a plant
o Demonstrations: Each step of the dissection
o Organizing info: Having a place to put each section of the plant
o Describing: Anticipatory set, investigation & closure
o Categorizing: Putting each part of the plant into the right section
o Hands-on experience: Anticipatory set & Dissection
o Tangible results: Dissection
o Know what is expected: The directions before each section get dissected
 Science #2: Materials and their properties
o Drill/ repetition: Throughout the whole lesson
o Demonstration: Mini lesson
o Organizing: Mini lesson/ categorizing materials into sections
o Categorizing: knowing what properties materials should be categorized in
o Hand-on experience: Anticipatory set, minilesson & individual activity
o Immediate, practical use: Using everyday objects
o Being active: Anticipatory set
o Thorough and detailed: Paragraph on their object
Multiple Intelligences fostered
 Logical/Mathematical: Students have multiple opportunities to work on and follow
specific steps in directions
 Body/ Kinesthetic: Many opportunities for students to have hands-on learning
experiences.
 
SF – Interpersonal 35%
Strategies Planned
 Math: Estimating measurement
o Role playing: Closure
o Peer tutoring: Playdough station
o Collaborating with others: Playdough station & Estimating objects around the
room station
o Opportunities to be helpful in class: Answering questions throughout the lesson
o Learning circles: Rotations
 Reading: Cause and effect
o Team games: Puzzle station & Anticipatory set
o Learning circles: Rotations
o Responding: GR groups & anticipatory set
o Personal attention: Reading aloud during GR
o Learn about themselves: The whole lesson
 Writing: Voice
o Team games: Anticipatory set (Kahoot)
o Group investigation: Finding voice in passages with groups
o Personal sharing: sharing writing with peers and whole group
o Responding: mini lesson
o Describing feelings: using emotion and feeling to write with voice
o Empathizing: using emotion to gage their writing
o Opportunities to be helpful in class: Throughout the whole lesson
o Personal feedback: sharing with peers
 Science #1: Parts of a plant
o Directly affecting people’s lives: Relating to seeing how plants are used in
everyday life
o Group Experiences: Anticipatory set & dissection
o Personal expression: discussion ad observations
o Opportunities to help in class: Dissection and clean up
o Group investigation: Dissection & anticipatory set
o Team games: Anticipatory set
o Responding: Discussions throughout the whole lesson
 Science #2: Materials and their properties
o Team games: Group discussion and collaboration
o Personal sharing: when in groups students can share what they wrote
o Responding: writing about their object and discussing
o Opportunities to be helpful: Giving insight to their group and whole group on
their observations
o Sharing experiences: Closure, discussing how they felt during this lesson

Multiple Intelligences fostered

  Interpersonal: Students are able to collaborate with peers and work together throughout
various lessons
 
NT -- Understanding 20%
Strategies Planned
 Math: Estimating measurement
o How things are related: Estimating objects of the same length
o Planning a project of own interest: Being able to choose their own object to
measure that interests them
o Reading: Anticipatory set
o Logical discussions: Explaining why they think an object is a certain length
o Problem solving: Finding the correct length
o Comparing and contrasting: Closure
 Reading: Cause and effect
o Reading: Each GR station
o How things are related: Cause and effect seen every day
o Projects of personal interest: GR activities were anchored towards students’
interests
o Work independently: Independent reading while I met with other groups
o Applying: Worksheets to fill in during individual work
o Using evidence: connecting causes and effects from passages
 Writing: Voice
o Lectures: Mini lesson
o Studying about ideas: Finding voice and how to write with it
o Work independently: Writing practice and writing assignment
o Challenging ideas to think and explore: Supervised writing and writing
assignment
o Reading: Passages using various voices
o Essays: Using voice to write
 Science #1: Parts of a plant
o Inquiry: Anticipatory set & dissection
o Problem solving: Mini lesson
o Independent study: Closure
o Classifying: Dissecting and classifying each part of the plant
o Comparing/contrasting: dissection looking at each part and telling the difference
o Evaluating: Observing during dissection
 Science #2: Materials and their properties
o Inquiry: Anticipatory set & mini lesson
o Problem solving: Anticipatory set
o Essays: Paragraph on the object
o Classifying: identifying each material and its properties
o Applying: Writing about the various properties of the material
 o Comparing/ contrasting: Viewing the various objects and looking at the
differences
o Work independently: Mini lesson and lesson presentation

Multiple Intelligences fostered

 Intrapersonal: Students were able to have individual work time during multiple lessons
 
NF – Self-expressive 10%
Strategies Planned
 Math: Estimating measurement
o Imagery: Anticipatory set
o Symbolizing: Playdough station
o Self-expression: Able to pick their own object that interests them
o Learn through discovery: Estimating an objects length
 Reading: Cause and effect
o Creating: Flip book and chain in two GR groups
o Open-ended discussion: Mini lesson & anticipatory set
o Imagery: depicting cause and effect in real life
o Learn through discovery: finding causes and effects in various passages
o Planning and organizing in their own way: they could do their individual work in
any order that they wanted
 Writing: Voice
o Being creative: Writing assignment
o Contemplation: Able to take time to write
o Open-ended discussion: minilesson
o Imagining: Expressing emotion through imagining how it feels
o Metaphors: can be used in writing
o Self-expression: use that emotion to write about a personal experience
 Science #1: Parts of a plant
o Open-ended discussion: Observations during dissection
o Hypothesizing: Asking questions about what will happen during the dissection
o Symbolizing: Anticipatory set
o Working on more than one thing at once: During the dissection
o Open-ended discussion: Observations being made during mini lesson and
dissection
o Alternative solutions: Different ways to dissect and answer questions
o Learn through discovery: Dissection
 Science #2: Materials and their properties
o Imagining: Mystery box activity
o Open-ended discussion: Closure and small group discussion
o Imagery: Mystery box and Mini lesson
o Hypothesizing: Wondering what object is in the mystery box
o Creating: a description on the mystery item
 o Learn through discovery: Finding what the mystery item is by using properties

Multiple Intelligences fostered

 Visual and spatial: Using imagery to explain various learning styles is seen throughout
these five lessons
 Naturalist: Specifically, in science, students learn about the earth and plants around us.
They also learn how to connect the content with real-world experiences.