Name: Amelia Leng

School: Shoesmith Elementary Mentor: Tracy Walker, Frances Jochum (Science)

TE 804 – 9 Grade Level: 3rd Grade Room Number: 106
SS 2018 Approximate Dates & Times you will be teaching science: March 12-23 (Approx. 8-10 lessons) Sometime between
10:30 and 11:30, most likely each day I will have about 20-30 minutes to teach science in place of something else

Topic: Weather and Climate

ASSIGNMENT #1- STANDARD AND DRIVING QUESTION: Due Sunday January 28, 2018 by 11:59 P.M.

NGSS Performance Expectation:

3-ESS2-2 Obtain and Combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

STUDENTS WHO DEMONSTRATE UNDERSTANDING

Will be able to: Understand: Will:

 Obtain and combine
information from books and
other reliable media to explain
phenomena.
 Climate describes a range of an
area’s typical weather conditions
and the extent to which those
conditions vary over years.
 Use patterns (similarities and
differences can use used to sort,
classify, and analyze simple rates
of change for natural phenomena
and designed products.

Driving Question
(This might change) –“How does weather affect me/people’s lives? What are different weather patterns across the country?”

ASSESSMENTS

1
TENATIVE PRE-ASSESSMENT
Have students answer the questions: What is weather? How do we measure weather? What is the weather like in Chicago?”

IDENTIFIED FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS

1. Checking for understanding with exit tickets
2. Checking for understanding with homework
3. Observing and listening to conversations students have in small group and whole group discussions.
4. Think-Pair-Share during non-fiction read alouds

SUMMATIVE (POST) ASSESSMENT

Short Research Project on the weather patterns in a particular part of the country (or State) that I will assign them.