Subject: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
Lesson Length: 30 - 40 mins
Topic: STEM Components & Careers; STEM Career
Grade Level: 4, 5
Brief Description: In this lesson, students will choose 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 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 brainstorm a STEM related career that interests them.
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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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Students will now create a four-to-six-panel comic including the following information:
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The career that interests them.
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How that career relates to STEM.
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Skills that would be important to have for their chosen career.
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Why they chose that career.
Closure: Have students share their comics with a partner who chose a career that relates to the same aspect of STEM; science, technology, engineering, math.
Differentiation:
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Assign students a specific STEM career as needed.
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Provide sentence frames for student comic.
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Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature as needed.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
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