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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:

  • Ask students to brainstorm a STEM related career that interests them.

  • As a class or with a partner, have students discuss how their chosen career relates to STEM.

  • Students will now create a four-to-six-panel comic including the following information:

    • The career that interests them.

    • How that career relates to STEM.

    • Skills that would be important to have for their chosen career.

    • 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:

  • Assign students a specific STEM career as needed.

  • Provide sentence frames for student comic. 

  • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature as needed.

Resources:

  • Comic to print or display: Comic.

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