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

    Lesson Length: 30 - 40 mins

    Topic: STEM Components and Careers

    Grade Level: 4, 5

    Standards / Framework:

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

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

    Hook:

    • 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?

    Activity:

    • 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

    Closure:

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

    Differentiation:

    • 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. 

    Resources:

    • Comic to print or display: Comic.

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