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Conrad Johnson                                                          Dr. Diaz

Ms. Pyle-Clarke                                                          P.S. 91, The Albany Ave School

October 25, 2012   Time: 12:50 pm – 1:35pm            Grade Level: 4               Room #: 206

 

 

I. Standard(s) Being Addressed              4.4e – Electrical circuits provide a means of transferring electrical energy.

 

 

II. Essential Question                             How current electricity works by setting up a circuit to light a bulb?

 

 

III. Teaching Point/Performance              Students will learn how to build circuits in order to light bulbs.

                                                                         

IV. Learning Activities                           

 

  1.  Mini Lesson                             What is current electricity and how does it move?

I will provide each group of students (three groups of five) with set of materials (light bulb, electrical wire, D battery, lab sheet)

 

I will ask students using the materials provided, how can you make the light bulb light?

 

I will introduce the new vocabulary words to my students

Current Electricity - a flow of electric charge

Current - a steady flow (usually from natural causes)

Circuit - an electrical device that provides a path for electrical     current to flow

 

  1. Accountable Talk                      

Students will discuss and make predictions as to what set-up of the materials they will test in order to light the bulb.

 

I will walk through with my students using the lab sheet that was provided the procedure and answer.

 

I will answer any questions my students may have before they test their predications (set-ups).

 

       C. Guided Practice                         In groups of five, they will test out their predictions and complete the lab reports

                                                            Students will follow the procedure that follows:

  1. Make predictions
  2. Draw set-ups
  3. Test prediction by putting materials together the way it looks in your predication diagram
  4. Record results
  5. Retest if necessary
  6. Record results again

 

I will ask students which group had a successful lighting of the bulb? They will also describe their set-up

 

 

D. Independent Practice                  Students will take turns reading to each other the excerpt from the textbook on Current Electricity 

 or they can partner read

                                                     

                                                      Students will discuss questions:

  1. Explain how current electricity works
  2. Why is current electricity more useful than static electricity?
  3. Explain how a circuit works
  4. Give examples of objects that require closed circuits in order to function

Students will discuss the new vocabulary that found in the text

  1. a.     Current electricity
  2. b.     Current
  3. c.     circuit

 

      E.  Summary                                   Journal Entry

Students will write in their journals using what they have learned today from their experiments and the independent reading answer the following:

Explain how to light a bulb, make sure to use the vocabulary they have learned (Current electricity, current, circuit)         

Homework

Describe a closed circuit

Give examples of other devices or machines that work when they are part of a closed circuit

IV. Assessment/Evaluation of               

     Learning                                          

 

Unsatisfactory

(1)

D/F

(0-69)

Emerging

(2)

C/C+

(70-79)

Competent

(3)

B-/B/B+

(80-89)

Exemplary

(4)

A-/A

(90-100)

 

Relation to Essential Question

 

Journal entry does not identify how current electricity works by setting up a circuit to light a bulb

 

Journal entry identify how current electricity works by setting up a circuit to light a bulb

 

Journal entry describe how current electricity works by setting up a circuit to light a bulb

 

Journal entry explain= how current electricity works by setting up a circuit to light a bulb

 

 

 

 

Completion

 

Student did not   attempt to complete journal

 

Student partial attempt with 1-2 supporting details

 

Student provided with 3-4 supporting details

 

Student completed journal with 5-7 supporting details.

 

 

 

 

Inference

 

Student did not make a prediction

 

Student makes a prediction, however it does not coincide with the task

 

Student makes a valid prediction, but he/she does not include no examples

 

Student has used prior knowledge to make his/her prediction true and provides examples

 

 

Response Quality

 

Student did not respond or participate in activity

 

Student did not respond to task with information about the task

 

Student respond with related information about the task

 

Student responded with fully developed understanding of the task




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