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    At a Glance:

    Grades:4, 5
    Subject:STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
    Topic:STEM Components and Careers
    Lesson Length:30 - 40 mins

    Standards / Framework:

    What will students learn in this activity?

    In this lesson students will explore a STEM career that interests them.

    What should students know before this activity?

    Students should be familiar with the components of STEM; science, technology, engineering, math.

    How can teachers introduce this lesson?

    • Read and discuss the comic about STEM-relate careers.
      • Do any of the careers in the comic look interesting?
      • What are some other STEM careers?

    What will students do?

    • Ask students to research a STEM-related career that they find interesting.

    • As a class or with a partner, have students discuss how their chosen career relates to STEM.

    • Have students create a four-panel comic including the following information:

      • A career

      • How that career relates to STEM

      • Skills that would be important to have for this career

      • Why they chose this career

    How can teachers wrap up the lesson?

    • Have students share their comics with a partner who chose a career that relates to the same aspect of STEM.

    How can teachers differentiate this activity?

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

    • Assign students a specific STEM career.

    • Provide sentence frames for student comic. 

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    • Comic to print or display: Comic.

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