Lesson by Kristin Mele

Grade Level 4

Summary In this lesson students begin to learn about climate and how it affects what plants grow through the example of an orange. Students will be able to incorporate all aspects of STEM education through designing a machine that will use less fossil fuel and in turn help the environment in which oranges are grown. This lesson is very well differentiated and connects to real life problems and contained multiple forms of assessment.

Inclusivity of Multiple Perspectives – 2

Link to Real World Problems – 3

Differentiation – 3

Agents of Change – 2

Connection to Students’ Lives – 2

Lesson Assessment –3

Score 15/18

Lesson by Carolyn Remde and Loribel Muliero

Grade Level: Grade 2

Summary: This is an interactive Science lesson that focuses on the changing states of matter. Students experience the concepts first hand as they work at stations and observe demonstrations performed by the Teacher. The Teacher engages the class in a discussion about their observations and ends the lesson by giving students an exit ticket.

Score: 11/18

Inclusivity of Multiple Perspectives: 1

Link to Real World Problems: 1

Differentiation: 3

Agents of Change: 1

Connections to Students’ Lives: 2

Lesson Assessment: 3

Rationale: While this lesson plan excels in certain areas such as differentiation, it does not score well in various categories of the rubric because as currently written, it does not lend itself towards the goal of incorporating social justice into the content. However, a social justice approach could easily be infused into the lesson by applying the content to larger issues such as pollution for example.

Changing Matter lesson

Lesson by Cynthia Perez

Grade level: 3rd grade

Summary:  Students will learn about communities and what the key places of a community are. They will also explore the idea that some communities have access to different and sometimes better facilities than others. First the students will learn the meaning of a community. Then they will discuss the importance of communities. Finally, the students will be placed in groups and complete a matching game in order to demonstrate their understanding of the key places of a community.

Score: 14.5/18

Inclusivity of Multiple Perspectives:  1

Link to Real World: 2.5

Differentiation:   2

Agents of Change: 3

Connections to Students’ lives: 3

Lesson Assessment: 3

Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Lesson by Cynthia Perez

Grade level: 3rd grade

Summary:  Students will learn about ways they can reduce, reuse, and recycle in order to protect their environment. First the students will learn and understand the meanings of reduce, reuse, and recycle. Then the students will discuss why it is important to reduce, reuse, and recycle and then will make a poster in which they will provide two ways in which they can reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Score: 14/18

Inclusivity of Multiple Perspectives: 1

Link to Real World Problems: 3

Differentiation: 3

Agents of Change: 2

Connections to Students’ Lives: 2

Lesson Assessment: 3

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Lesson

Bullying and Courage

Lesson by Cynthia Perez

Grade level: 4th grade

Summary:  Students will learn about different situations where they would feel either safe or unsafe. Then, students will learn the different definitions of courage and bullying and have a class discussion about these two topics. Students will learn how to find these safe places in their schools, and how to discourage and stop bullying. The book “Courage” by Bernard Waber is used.

Score: 15.5/18

Inclusivity of Multiple Perspectives: 2.5

Link to Real World Problems: 3

Differentiation: 2

Agents of Change: 2.5

Connections to Students’ Lives: 3

Lesson Assessment: 2.5

Bullying 3rd Grade Lesson

Lesson by Annie Wickersty

Grade level: 1st grade

Summary: Students identify corn and one other American crop as crops that are native to the Americas. Next, the students complete a drawing project that identifies a Native American crop and how they might be found/ used today.  The students will then answer big questions about how the foods the Native Americans ate influenced the foods that people eat today.

Score: 16/18

Inclusivity of Multiple Perspectives: 3

Link to Real World Problems: 3

Differentiation: 2

Agents of Change: 2

Connections to Students’ Lives: 3

Lesson Assessment: 3

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Lesson by Kelsey Martin

Grade level: 1st grade

Summary: In this lesson, students will listen to the story My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother, in order to review key vocabulary words used throughout the book.  They will also make connections to their own families as well as determine their favorite part of the book.

Score: 15/18

Inclusivity of Multiple Perspectives: 3

Link to Real World Problems: 2

Differentiation: 2

Agents of Change: 2

Connections to Students’ Lives: 3

Lesson Assessment: 3

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Lesson by Karyn Unger and Susan Kelly

Grade level: Kindergarten

Summary:  In this lesson, students view a National Geographic video clip of tornadoes.  After briefly discussing the video, students engage in a read aloud about tornadoes.  Students then draw what a tornado would look like if it hit their community, including the things it would pick up.

Score: 13/18

Inclusivity of Multiple Perspectives: 2

Link to Real World Problems: 2

Differentiation: 3

Agents of Change: 1

Connections to Students’ Lives: 2

Lesson Assessment: 3

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Grade level: 2nd grade

Summary: Students use counters and a double ten frame to model and complete subtraction problems using the strategy of “making ten” to subtract within 20.  Students then use drawings to show how they can subtract using the strategy.

Score: 11/18

Inclusivity of Multiple Perspectives: 2

Link to Real World Problems: 1

Differentiation: 2

Agents of Change: 1

Connections to Students’ Lives: 2

Lesson Assessment: 3

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Lesson by Victoria Viola

Grade level:  9th grade

Summary: In the lesson students first respond to statements and participate in a group discussion about their beliefs.  Students then analyze and predict what the story may be about based on the book trailer video.  Finally, students actively read the first chapter of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Score: 16/18

Inclusivity of Multiple Perspectives: 3

Link to Real World Problems: 3

Differentiation: 2

Agents of Change: 2

Connections to Students’ Lives: 3

Lesson Assessment: 3

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