2. My class is a fourth grade class of 24 students-
13 boys and 11 girls.
• 14 of my students are white, 7 are African American, and 3 are
Asian.
• One student has Asperger’s, four have ADHD, and one has
dyslexia.
• Two students are gifted learners.
Since students 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. .
At the end of a week long unit, with a 75% accuracy, my
fourth grade students will determine what static
electricity is, model what an electric current is, compare
electricity to magnets to construct an electromagnet in
order to identify where we can find electricity in our
everyday lives by using balloons and paper to see static
electricity in action, creating “squishy circuits”,
manipulating magnets, and observing an electromagnet;
finally, they will work in teams to display what they have
learned by constructing a light-up poster.
4. Monday:
Watch school house rock “Electricity, Electricity” video. Discuss static
electricity and positive and negative charges using balloons and tissue paper.
Tuesday:
Determine what an electrical current is and what a circuit is. Apply this information
and create a circuit with “squishy circuit”, then discuss conductors and insulators.
Wednesday:
Manipulate magnets and discuss their properties focusing on positive and
negative charges. Compare that to how electrical charges. Discuss how these
are related and construct an electromagnet as a class.
Thursday:
Watch “Electricity, Electricity” again. Brain storm how we use electricity
in our lives. Discuss safety when using electricity.
Friday:
As a class review materials that we have to make our circuit light-up
posters and safety precautions for using electricity. In teams, students utilize
supplies to create posters.
5. Smart Board
Computer
Christmas Lights
Light Bulb
Art Bot (to make model wind mill)
Squishy Circuits
Batttery
6. Burrell, Tamara. Windmills. Houghton Mifflin Company.
“Science Made Simple” SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE, INC.
Voorhees, NJ. 1996, 2000.
http://www.sciencemadesimple.net/static.html
Squishy Circuits. Makers Shed.
http://www.makershed.com/products/squishy-circuits-kit
Valentino, Catherine. Houghton Mifflin Science for Grade 4.
Boston, MA. 2007
