Laura Light Mrs.

Trainor November 4, 2013

TWS 3 Short Range Learning Objectives/Standards for Unit My 2nd grade unit of study was magnetism. This is a great unit to use for this particular group of students because of our active class. This class needs to use things that will keep them engaged and in a participatory state. They thoroughly enjoyed the exploration of the different types of magnets. The magnetism unit was chosen because it was the next unit in my cooperating teachers long range plans. It was a brand new unit that I began when I started full time teaching. The timing and plans worked out perfectly. I chose this unit also because it is such a fun unit for this age group.

Girls Caucasian African American Hispanic 2 4 3

Boys 5 4 2

Since our students demographics are so varied, I used a mixture of assessments to determine student outcomes with this unit. During and after each lesson, the students were to use their Science notebooks to show learning. I walked around, observed learning, and asked questions to assess the students understanding of magnets. A benchmark test was given to the students for a formal assessment to see how well the magnetism unit was understood. We also created a puppet theatre where magnets were placed in the theatre to have the puppets move without the students touching them which was one of our objectives.

Instructional Unit Objectives Chart

Unit Objectives Unit Objective 1: The students will be able to correctly describe what a Scientist does after brainstorming and gathering this information in their Science notebooks.

Activities/Instructional Strategies Teacher led brainstorming and class discussion creating and using Science notebooks.

Unit Objective 2: The students will be able to correctly describe what a magnet is after brainstorming, writing Science notebooks, and watching the magnet video.

Teacher led brainstorming and inquiry and use of technology.

Assessment of Objective Pre-Assessment: Teacher inquiry through brainstorming. During Assessment: Observation and discussion of sticky notes. Post-Assessment: What is a Scientist? page in Science notebooks. Pre-Assessment: Teacher inquiry. During Assessment: Observation and Inquiry. Post-Assessment: Science notebooks.

Accommodations Early finishers can add more detail to their page and continue to number their pages. Slower finishers will be given chances during down time to finish up their writing/drawing.

ESOL students will be given extra time and encouragement with brainstorming and definitions.

Unit Objective 3: The student will be able to make objects move using a magnet without touching the object effectively. Unit Objective 4: The student will be able to explain how the poles of magnets affect each other effectively after experimenting with the bar magnets and ring magnets. Unit Objective 5: The student will be able to correctly compare the effect of magnets

Experimentation using magnets and science notebooks. Exploration of moving objects with magnetism.

Modeling and experimentation with attracting and repelling of bar magnets. Instruction and observation of pairs.

Pre-Assessment: Teacher inquiry. During Assessment: Observation of first writing in notebooks. Post-Assessment: Science notebooks. Pre-Assessment: Teacher inquiry. During Assessment: Observation and Inquiry. Post-Assessment: Science notebooks.

ESOL students will be given extra time and encouragement with writing sentences about their experiences.

ESOL students will be given extra time and encouragement with writing sentences about their experiences.

Modeling and introducing various objects and classification

Pre-Assessment: Teacher inquiry with various objects. During Assessment:

ESOL students will be given extra time and encouragement with writing sentences about

on the various objects.

concerning magnetism using pairs of students and whole class.

Observation of placement of various objects. Post-Assessment: Science notebooks (Tcharts) and class discussion on the whiteboard.

their experiences.