This is a powerpoint that outlines my proposed unit plan. It includes objectives, a day to day plan, and a list of technology planned to be used.

2. My class is a fourth grade class of 24 students.
– 60% of my students are white, 30% are African
American, and 10% are Asian.
– One student has Asperger’s, four have ADHD, and
one has dyslexia.
– Two students are gifted learners.
– Since student are extremely diverse in their learning
abilities, they also have a variety of learning styles.
Therefore, I will be using various methods to
accommodate everyone.

3. My fourth grade students will explore electricity from the sub-atomic particles
that make up electrical charges, to the energy it makes to power our lives
every day.
At the end of one week:
• Students will model static electricity using themselves, balloons, and
socks to understand electric charges.
• They will manipulate Christmas lights to observe a faulty and working
circuit.
• Students will explore the properties of magnets and compare these
properties to the properties of electrical charges.
• They will apply their knowledge of magnets and electricity to real life
machines that create energy that we use every day, and list the ways they
use this energy.
• Finally, students will construct and create a diagram their own electrical
source of power to demonstrate their knowledge of electricity in small
teams.
Students will be evaluated through thoughts they verbalize in our
discussions, by being able to independently participate in demonstrations,
and by creating their own electrical source of power with their teams.

4. • Monday: What is static electricity and how can we see it?
– Discuss lightning and Thomas Edison.
– Observe static electricity using socks, balloons, and ourselves to understand how electrical
charges work.
• Tuesday: How do circuits work and what is an electrical current?
– Demonstrate a working and a faulty circuit with Christmas lights.
– Explain series and parallel circuits and conductors and insulators.
– Determine why Christmas lights were “faulty.”
• Wednesday: What do magnets do and how are they related to electricity?
– Manipulate magnets to determine what does and does not have a magnetic charge.
– Compare a magnet’s positive and negative charges to electricity’s charges.
– Find similarities between magnetic objects and conductors.
• Thursday: Where do we find electricity in our lives?
– List the places in our homes we use electric.
– Explain the relationship between magnets and electricity to make an electromagnet.
– Explain and show examples of how energy can be converted to electricity.
• Friday: Showcase our knowledge by constructing electrical circuits and
diagramming how they work, and problem solving why models set up
through out the room are not working and fixing the problems.

5. • Smart Board
• Computer
• Christmas Lights
• Light Bulb
• Art Bot (to make model wind mill)

6. – “Science Made Simple” SCIENCE MADE
SIMPLE, INC. Voorhees, NJ. 1996, 2000.
<http://www.sciencemadesimple.net/static.
html>
– Valentino, Catherine. Houghton Mifflin
Science for Grade 4. Boston, MA. 2007
– Burrell, Tamara. Windmills. Houghton
Mifflin Company.