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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:
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Ask students to research a STEM-related career that they find interesting.
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As a class or with a partner, have students discuss how their chosen career relates to STEM.
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Have students create a four-panel comic including the following information:
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A career
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How that career relates to STEM
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Skills that would be important to have for this career
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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.
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Assign students a specific STEM career.
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Provide sentence frames for student comic.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
Make a comic about Office Jobs
Make a comic about a Creative Office
Make a comic about The Laboratory
Make a comic about Cyberspace
Make a comic about the Hospital
Make a comic about Biotechnology
