Subject: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
Lesson Length: 30 - 40 mins
Topic: STEM Components & Careers
Brief Description: In this lesson, students will choose a future career that interests them and create a STEM comic.
Know Before You Start: Students should be familiar with the areas and aspects of STEM.
Comic 1
Comic 2
Hook: What is your favorite component of STEM and why? E.g., science, technology, engineering, math.
Activity:
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Read and discuss the sample comic.
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The teacher should point out that the comic does not feature a STEM career, but rather explains how STEM relates to the chosen career.
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Students will create five-to-eight-panel comic discussing and explaining the following:
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Their chosen career.
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Why they want that career.
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How STEM is related to the career.
Closure: Students will share their chosen career and how it is connected to STEM.
Differentiation:
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Provide examples of STEM careers students can choose from.
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Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature as needed.
Provide sentence stems e.g., I want to be a ____. I want to be a ____ because ____. STEM relates to the career because ____.)
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
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