5. 2nd Six Weeks Planner (24 days)
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Oct. 6
Density
7 8 9 10
Oct. 13
Student Holiday
14
Density
15 16
Chemical
Changes
17
Oct. 20
Chemical
Changes
21 22 23
Energy
Transformations
24
Oct. 27
Energy
Transformations
28 29 30 31
Nov. 3
Potential &
Kinetic Energy
4 5 6 7
6. TEKS & Student expectations
Content TEKS Skills TEKS
6.1A, 6.2B-6.8: Force, motion, and energy. The student C, & E, 6.3A-C, 6.4A
knows force and motion are related to potential
and kinetic energy. The student is expected to:
6.8A compare and contrast potential
and kinetic energy
8. The Story of Kinetic and Potential Energy
http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/kinetic-energy-to-potential-energy-relationship-in-different-
energy-types.html
Teacher Content support
9. Vertical alignment
5TH GRADE
•Explore the uses of energy,
including mechanical, light,
thermal, electrical, and sound
energy.
6TH GRADE
6.8A compare and
contrast potential and
kinetic energy
IPC
•Recognize and demonstrate
that objects and substances in
motion have kinetic energy such
as vibration of atoms, water
flowing down a stream moving
pebbles, and bowling balls
knocking down pins.
•Demonstrate common forms of
potential energy including
gravitational, elastic, and
chemical, such as a ball on an
inclined plane, springs, and
batteries.
10. PRIOR LEARNING
• There are five main forms of energy
including mechanical, light, thermal,
electrical, and sound.
• Mechanical energy is energy in motion;
it can be kinetic (motion) or potential
(stored).
• Potential energy can be gravitational or
stored in objects like springs or elastic.
13. Based on the data and distractors, what key points should teachers
emphasize during lessons?
• Identify examples of potential and kinetic energy in a written
example and graphic.
• The relationship between potential and kinetic energy
14. Components of a good lesson plan
1. Engage Student Interest
2. Review/Scaffold to TEKS
3. Student-Centered Activities directly relating to the depth and complexity of the TEKS
• Labs, Activities, Videos
1. Organize and Practice Vocabulary
2. Reading & Comprehension Strategies
3. Writing Opportunities & Scaffolds
4. Daily Listening & Speaking Opportunities
5. Differentiation
6. Formative Assessment & Reteach
15. Embedded in lessons:
Engage Student Interest
• K-W-L Chart: Energy
• Wind Up Toys Demonstration
• Kinetic & Potential Energy Song & Video
16. Embedded in lessons:
Review / Scaffold to TEKS
• ScienceSaurus: Forms of Energy
• Study Jams Video: Energy &
Matterhttp://studyjams.scholastic.co
m/studyjams/jams/science/matter/en
ergy-and-matter.htm
• BrainPop Video: Kinetic Energy &
Potential Energy
• ScienceFusion Unit 4, Lesson 1
Introduction to Energy: Digital
Lesson & Virtual Lab
17. Embedded in lessons:
Student-Centered Activities directly relating to the depth and complexity of the
TEKS (Labs, Activities, Videos)
• Wind Up Toys Demonstration
• Kinetic & Potential Energy Video &
Song
• Making Craters Investigation
• PhET Simulations: Energy Skate
Park
18. Embedded in lessons:
Organize and Practice Vocabulary
• Potential & Kinetic Energy Presentation &
Vocabulary Template
• K-W-L Chart
• Modeling Clay: A 3-D Representation
Vocabulary Review
• Kagan Inside-Outside Circle Review Game
19. Embedded in lessons:
Reading & Comprehension Strategies
• Potential & Kinetic Energy Reading
• ScienceFusion: Get Energized! p. 190-
191
• Reader/Writer/Speaker Response
Triads Students form groups of three.
One student reads the text aloud; one
writes the group’s reactions or
responses to questions about the text,
a third reports the answers to the
group. After reporting to the group, the
students switch roles.
• Numbered Paragraphs with Questions
20. Embedded in lessons:
Writing Opportunities & Scaffolds
• Potential & Kinetic Energy Reading Questions
• PE & KE Warm Up
• Pre-Assessment: What is the relationship between potential and kinetic energy?
• Scaffolds: Sentence Frames, Word Bank
21. Embedded in lessons:
Daily Listening & Speaking Opportunities
• Wind-Up Toys Demonstration
• Potential & Kinetic Energy Reading & Questions
• Pre-Assessment & Journal Entry
• Making Craters Lab
• Vocabulary Review & Games
My 3-D model
represents potential
energy because…
My 3-D model represents kinetic
energy because…
22. • Special Education:
1. Mixed-Ability Partners
2. Pre-Teach Vocabulary
3. Audacity
4. Sentence Frames
5. Demonstrate & Summarize
6. Word Bank
• English Language Learners:
1. Mixed-Ability Partners
2. Pre-Teach Vocabulary
3. Connecting to Graphing
4. Sentence Frames
5. Word Bank
Embedded in lessons:
Differentiation
23. Embedded in lessons:
Formative Assessment & Reteach
Formative Assessment Reteach Opportunities
• ScienceSaurus: Forms of Energy
• Study Jams Video: Energy &
Matterhttp://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/sci
ence/matter/energy-and-matter.htm
• BrainPop Video: Kinetic Energy & Potential Energy
• ScienceFusion Unit 4, Lesson 1 Introduction to Energy:
Digital Lesson & Virtual Lab
• Other Lessons Folder Activities
• K-W-L Chart
• Pre-Assessment
• Journal Entry
• Making Craters Lab Class Discussion
• PE & KE Warm Up
• PhET Simulation
• Vocabulary Review
• Vocabulary Game
• Roller Coaster Diagrams
• Potential & Kinetic Energy Exit Ticket
• Potential & Kinetic Energy Quiz
24. Higher level questions
• “Research shows there’s a link between critical thinking skills and increased student achievement in the
classroom.” (Moore & Stanley, 2010)
• Higher level questions must be planned in order to be implemented effectively in the classroom.
• Levels of Questions
• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis
• Synthesis
• Evaluation
• Plan and provide a variety of questions at each level and build student knowledge and critical thinking by providing
Higher Level Questions.
27. Sample Unit questions
• A sample from this unit using the Daily Guiding Questions.
Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluate
Define potential
energy.
Define kinetic energy.
How do we
transform energy to
make it useful?
How is energy used
in the world?
How are matter and
energy related?
What is the
relationship between
potential and kinetic
energy?
How would you test
the potential and
kinetic energy of a car
at the top of a ramp?
What data would you
use to support the
conclusion that a car’s
greatest kinetic
energy is at the
bottom of the ramp?
28. Recommended Anchors of Support
• Potential & Kinetic Energy Vocabulary Template
• Kinetic & Potential Song & Lyrics
• Roller Coaster Diagrams
29. Anchors of Support
Other Resources
•Interactive Word Wall- Current, working models with student contributions
• Interactive Word Walls Article: http://learningcenter.nsta.org/files/ss1103_45.pdf
• “Word walls can be arranged on cupboard doors or classroom walls, or hung from
the ceiling with wire and string.”
• “Maximum instructional potential and efficiency are achieved when interactive word-wall
construction is aligned with lessons and students are allowed to participate in
the process. As a result, walls are usually built over many days and are finished as
a unit nears completion. Word walls support units and are changed or replaced as
units change.”
• Interactive Word Walls Rubric: Next Slide
• ScienceFusion Textbook, Science Glossaries, Dual Language Science
Glossaries
What are the state standards for this Unit?
Deconstruct the TEKS: Verb, Noun, and Context
What does it mean to “compare” and “contrast” something?
What should students know and be able to do?
This information is located on the CRM and the Teacher Lesson Page. The Teacher Lesson Page contains the specific prior learning for the specific TEKS for this Unit.
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Guiding Questions are bold and italicized.
What are the essential vocabulary for the unit?Are all necessary vocabulary accounted for in the acquiring and practicing opportunities?
