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    What’s Your STEM Superpower?

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    Subject: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)

    Lesson Length: 30 - 40 mins

    Topic: STEM Components and Careers

    Grade Level: 6, 7

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description: Students will imagine a solution to a real life STEM problem by creating a STEM superhero comic.

    Know Before You Start: Students should be familiar with the components of STEM; science, technology, engineering, math.

    Hook:

    • Read and discuss the sample comic.
      • What type of real life STEM problems could our hero solve with their superpowers?

    Activity:

    • Brainstorm real-life problems facing kids, adults, and animals in the world today. Record students' suggestions on the board.

    • Have students select one of these problems for their STEM superhero to solve. 

    • Have students create an eight-panel comic including:

      • A superhero with a superpower based on a component of STEM.

      • Their hero solving a real-life problem using their superpower(s).

    Closure:

    • Share and discuss the completed comics.

    Differentiation:

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

    • Provide examples of STEM superheroes and assign them to specific students as needed.

    • Provide sentence frames as needed.

    Resources:

    • Comic to print or display: Comic.

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