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Unit 6: Lesson Planning: 5E Model + Technology

Samantha Niehaus, Sarah Kay, Andrew Munguia

Your Name: Samantha Niehaus, Sarah Kay, Andrew Munguia

Lesson Title: Simple Circuits Challenge with Makey Makey

Subject: Science

Grade Level: 4th Grade

Learning Objectives:

We can create simple circuits.

We can create switches in a circuit.
We can work together in groups to collaborate on a project.
Content Standards:

3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
3-5-ETS1-2. Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
3-5-ETS1-3. Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
4-PS3-2. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
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Unit 6: Lesson Planning: 5E Model + Technology
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ISTE NETS-S:

● Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them
and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
● Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their
learning in a variety of ways.
● Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative
artifacts or solving authentic problems.
● Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
● Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or
communication.
● Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.

Special Accommodations/Differentiation:

Students will be assigned in groups and expected to each contribute to the project.

Teacher will be available to answer questions and provide assistance.

Students will be given additional challenges to choose from based on their level of understanding.

Materials & Resources:

Playdough, pennies, Makey Makey for each group, alligator clips, Tinfoil, popsicle sticks, paper clips, LED lights, Conductive
fruits

The lesson can be found here with task cards to give each group so they can work independently at their pace if necessary:
https://makeymakey.com/lessons/simple-circuit-challenge/
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Unit 6: Lesson Planning: 5E Model + Technology
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E Technology Connection What Success Looks Like

ENGAGE
Activities that capture the
students’ attention, stimulate responding to questions.
their thinking, and help them
access prior knowledge.
EXPLORE
Enable students to explore
their ideas, singly and in
groups, in classroom or at a
distance. Provides students
time to think, plan,
investigate, and organize
collected information.
Show students as a whole group this video from the
Create video/audio explorations of a topic, Makey Makey Creators:
https://vimeo.com/60307041
Have students participate in a think, pair, share
where they discuss what they enjoyed about the
video, what they were surprised by, and how they
think it might work so well.
Other: Challenge 1: Give students a Makey Makey board
________________ in their groups. Ask them to explore the Makey
Makey and try to figure out how to create a circuit
with PlayDough and an LED light.
Challenge 2: Can you use people to create a circuit?
How many people can be in your circuit and still
have the LED light up?

EXPLAIN Challenge 3: Create a Makey Makey Keyboard

Students acquire with tin foil and popsicle sticks. Use the Scratch

Unit 6: Lesson Planning: 5E Model + Technology
Samantha Niehaus, Sarah Kay, Andrew Munguia
opportunities to connect
their previous experiences
with current learning and to
make conceptual sense of
the main ideas of the topic
being studied.
ELABORATE
Students apply or extend
previously introduced
concepts and experiences to
new situations. Students
apply their knowledge to
real world applications.
EVALUATE
Students, with their teachers,
Collaborative Product
Creation
Other:
________________
Product creation
Other: ________________
Video feedback on
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Keyboard App:
https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/223260/
Challenge 4: Create a human keyboard. Use your
group members to create music using the Makey
Makey music apps/games.
Challenge 5: Building a Switch: Can you make a
switch with Playdoh that will still light up your
LED on the MM without using yourself or another
person as a ground.
Challenge 6: Parallel Circuit: How can you create a
parallel circuit that will successfully light up a
second LED?
Extended Challenge (for groups who are advanced
or finish early):
What other materials can you use to create a switch
that works with your LED light? How many LED
lights can you light up?
Students use their iPad or Chromebook video
recording tool/app to create a video as a group
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review and assess what they product showing the circuits they have created with
have learned and how they switches and explain how and why they work and
have learned it. Students can the process they used to get them to work. What
didn’t work at first and they had to fix or change?
be given a summative
assessment to demonstrate
what they know and can do.