to express their thoughts (without getting discouraged). Tasks -Listen to a BrainPOP The goal throughout When students are Jr. video and the this magnets lesson is engaged (especially in to keep the students hands-on activities) Mystery of Magnets. -Test objects to see if engaged by learning and are being taught they are magnetic or in a way that interests in a way that they are not. them. interested in, the -Write about what students are more they have learned and likely to have success the similarities they and retain the found. information being taught. There was one student who was still at the beginning level after the assessment for this learning experience. Therefore, I will repeat the information I taught a lot within the next two lessons (which are more hands-on) and also throughout the remainder of the year. The child will then be able to understand the material (that he could not comprehend after this lesson) by the end of the unit/school year. Furthermore, during free time, the aide may pull the student aside in order to review material he is continuing to struggle with. TIME REQUIRED Planning This learning experience takes about one hour and thirty minutes (ninety minutes) to plan. This specified time includes finding a copy of The big book, to Mystery of Magnets log on to BrainPOP Jr., to create the worksheet, writing Mighty Magnet Magnets worksheet, and the acrostic poems. Also, to make copies of the worksheets, to Magnet find the materials needed for testing, to locate magnets for each student, and to create writing prompts for the students’ writing. Implementation This learning experience was designed to be taught (and completed) in a seventy minute science block. Assessment The pre-assessment and post-assessment tasks were administered as a whole group. The pre-assessment takes about ten minutes to complete and the post-assessment takes
to express their thoughts (without getting discouraged). Tasks -Listen to a BrainPOP Jr. video and the Mystery of Magnets. -Test objects to see if they are magnetic or not. -Write about what they have learned and the similarities they found. The goal throughout this magnets lesson is to keep the students engaged by learning in a way that interests them. When students are engaged (especially in hands-on activities) and are being taught in a way that they are interested in, the students are more likely to have success and retain the information being taught. There was one student who was still at the beginning level after the assessment for this learning experience. Therefore, I will repeat the information I taught a lot within the next two lessons (which are more hands-on) and also throughout the remainder of the year. The child will then be able to understand the material (that he could not comprehend after this lesson) by the end of the unit/school year. Furthermore, during free time, the aide may pull the student aside in order to review material he is continuing to struggle with. TIME REQUIRED Planning This learning experience takes about one hour and thirty minutes (ninety minutes) to plan. This specified time includes finding a copy of The Mystery of Magnets big book, to log on to BrainPOP Jr., to create the Mighty Magnet worksheet, Magnets writing worksheet, and the Magnet acrostic poems. Also, to make copies of the worksheets, to find the materials needed for testing, to locate magnets for each student, and to create writing prompts for the students’ writing. Implementation This learning experience was designed to be taught (and completed) in a seventy minute science block. Assessment The pre-assessment and post-assessment tasks were administered as a whole group. The pre-assessment takes about ten minutes to complete and the post-assessment takes
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