Microteach Lesson

Teaching Plan Teacher Name Subject Area Topic

Learning Objectives What do you want your students to learn?

Assessment How will you know your students have learned?

Materials What resources will you need?

Introduction (how will you “hook” students? )

Time: 2min

Michelle Bright Physics Expanding Universe

Date Grade Time

March 5th 2019 9 (microteach) 12-15min

Students will be able to understand and explain how the universe expands on an elementary level, with the use of analogous examples.

Students will answer an ‘exit slip’ quiz with a short answer question allowing them to describe how the universe expands and a question that has them identify examples that are analogous to the expansion of the universe. Balloons (at least 10) String markers/sharpies (if students don’t have) ‘exit slip’ quiz for each student

What is the Universe? How do we know it’s expanding? History in Astronomy. How is it expanding? Allow for students to share if they already know or have an idea, if most seem to know allow for ~30sec. chat with the students around them about their ideas.

ED 2500 – Orientation to Teaching Instructor: Deborah Yawney

Prepare (30sec.) 1. Students form into groups of 2-5 2. Each group given a balloon, marker, and a piece of string

Body Learning activity or sequence of activities. )

Time: 8min

Explanation as the Students move through the Activity (5min) 3. Mark the string with any distance (within reason to the size of your balloon) and use that marking to make at least 4 dots equaled spaced on the balloon 4. Blow up the balloon more and check the distances between the dots, mark the new distances on their string 5. Repeat (number of repeats depending on time) What Does this Mean for our Universe? • talk to their group members (30sec.) • talk as a class about their ideas and explain how the Universe expands as a balloon would expand, the contents remain the same and objects remain proportionally the same distance from one another, but the space they occupy increases. (2min)

Closure

Exit Slip (4min) Hand out the ‘exit slip’ quizzes one for each student and have them answer the questions on their own, hand in to me on the way out.

Time: 5min Students can either throw away or keep the balloon and string used in the experiment, markers returned to me with the exit slips.

Notes and Ideas organize the class into groups rather than letting them group themselves

ED 2500 – Orientation to Teaching Instructor: Deborah Yawney