End of Year Science Activities - Summer School Curriculum & STEM Project
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Keep them engaged with these end-of-year science activities in comic form! This is more than your basic science reading passage and project. This print-and-go potential and kinetic energy lesson plan will captivate your entire class in hands-on learning as they explore the energy transfer that occurs between kinetic energy and potential energy.
Everything is presented in a science cartoon format!
Cool School Comics combines the allure of comics with unique visual learning strategies to revolutionize how struggling readers, at-risk youth, ESL students, and kids with dyslexia perceive learning.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
This download is full of colorful illustrations and examines real-life examples of the energy transfer occurring! Readers will learn about potential and kinetic energy as they examine a variety of different types of motion. Students will relate to and remember these colorful examples, be it the energy transfer occurring on a roller coaster or when a hammer hits a nail.
Students will be challenged to design and construct a catapult using inexpensive supplies like rubber bands and popsicle sticks. The follow-up page will help students tie the activity back to potential and kinetic energy.
What's inside the Potential and Kinetic Energy Lesson Plan?
- Lesson Plan Template- A clear plan as to how you can carry this download over the course of an entire week!
- Link to Google Slideshow- The link is on the first page of the PDF. A full slideshow of all of the content and the activity.
- Interactive Table of Contents
- Fully Colored Version- Perfect for projecting on the front board or printing as a poster to use as an anchor chart. The illustration of the roller coaster cutting right through the page is sure to grab everyone's attention.
- Black and White Version- Easily printable, fun to color. Glue directly into the interactive notebook to use as a reference.
- Fill-in-the-Blank Doodle Notes- Use as guided reading or guided note-taking worksheet
- Doodle Notes- Many words remain, but images are missing. Students draw them in. More than just a worksheet, this resource serves as a great tool to reinforce understanding.
- Create Your Own- A completely blank comic template. Students can draw in vertical lines where they see fit. Assess their understanding in a unique way.
- Build a Catapult STEM Challenge- Students are challenged to build catapults! Instructions are in comic form.
- Catapult Follow-up Worksheet- Questions linking the activity back to potential and kinetic energy.
- Rubrics for "Create Your Own" Comic- Two rubrics to serve as instructions for students and a grading tool for you. Rubrics are adjusted to accommodate different learning levels.
- Answer Key for Doodle Notes and Catapult Follow-up Worksheet
- Teacher Tips- Tips and instruction ideas for you!
- Easel Version- For your students' Google Classroom or learning devices!
- JUST ADDED! LARGER-SPACE DOODLE NOTES- Still Fill-in-the-Blank Doodle Notes, but with larger boxes to allow more space to write.
This PDF can be printed as a regular comic or a large, anchor chart poster! Glue any aspect of this download as a unique interactive notebook addition.
Standard Doodle Notes Version Available HERE!
Also available in the Physics Mega Bundle
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"I love doodle notes with the students. I appreciate that they can color, learn content, take notes, and have visuals at the same time. Great resource. I will use it again and again. Thank you." -Melissa B.
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"WE LOVE THESE!" -Erin Bearden
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"This was exactly what I was looking for to help teach energy, thanks!" -The Reason Why
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What makes Cool School Comics such an impactful learning tool?
They are FUN!
- This is the most crucial benefit.
- Students are more willing to participate and more engaged.
- The content STICKS.
Visual learning is EFFECTIVE.
- About 65% of the population consists of visual learners.
- Visual information is processed faster.
- Students who SEE information are more likely to retain it.
EASY to implement!
- These lesson plans are complete and ready to go, requiring minimal prep time.
- You only need to make copies, upload supplementals to your virtual classrooms, and set up the hands-on activities.
- Lots of flexibility! You can print these as posters, add them to interactive notebooks, hand them out to students, or share them virtually. There is plenty of room for modifications.
ACTIVE LEARNING
- Every lesson plan has a low-prep, wallet-friendly, hands-on component.
- Instructions are in a visual format
- Follow-up questions or a lab report are always included
Comics make content ACCESSIBLE
- Naturally differentiated, comics accommodate a wide range of learning abilities and styles.
- Great for classrooms with a diverse population of learners
- They can simultaneously rope in both your gifted and struggling students (and everyone in between).
- Reluctant readers gravitate toward comics.
- Comics help English Language Learners and SPED students find success.
Be the hip teacher seizing the graphic novels craze. Your students will LOVE it!
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