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RILS Blue Print:

Relevant and Innovative Learning Scenario

Name: Joe Marquez

 Brief Overview:

Using interactive power points and teacher created multimedia video, students will learn about forces and Newton’s three laws of motion. Students will view power point slides and participate in interactive classroom activities using football bags, cross bows, and rolling carts to learn about this important standard in physics. Students will then be given a short 5 questions assessment to determine the strength of the lesson.

1. Target Audience-

The students who will participate in this lesson are my 8^th grade science students who range in ages between 12 and 14.

2. Materials–

·       Interactive power point with imbedded videos

·       Projector and Screen

·       iMovie created by me staring Darth Vader and myself  teaching the students about forces.

·       Crossbow to reinforce the idea of potential and kinetic energy

·       Football bags and rolling cart to demonstrate Newton’s three laws of motion

·       5 question assessment

·       Illuminate web based assessment software

·       Document Camera ( students will use this to score their tests)

3. Objectives–

At the end of this lesson students will be able to:

Understand the meaning of the following terms.

·       Forces

·       Net Force

·       Unbalance/Balance Force

·       Newton’s three laws of motion

Analyze situations and identify Newton’s three laws of motion in various scenarios produced in class.

Create a scenario they encounter in their everyday life that shows Newton’s three laws of motion in action. The students will create this scenario using the web2.0 tool MakeBeliefsComix.com, in which they will create a story showing one or all of Newton’s three laws of motion.

1. Procedure–

·       Students will complete a starter asking them to identify various terms dealing with our unit on forces. Go over as a class.

·       Students will Watch a video introducing forces to them staring Darth Vader and myself.

·       Students will participate in a power point lecture introducing them to Forces using slides and videos.

·       Students will actively participate in a classroom activity involving a crossbow, football bags, and rolling cart to demonstrate the differences between Newton’s three laws.

·       Students will take a five question quiz.

·       Quizzes will be scanned by web based assessment program illuminate to analyze student progress.

·       Upon students return to class, I will re-teach any part of the lesson the quiz showed low comprehension.

2. Web 2.0 Tool–

I will be using the web based assessment software known as illuminate to analyze my student’s achievement during this lesson. Illuminated.com is an assessment program which track student’s achievement per class and per school. The student will also be using a web2.0 tool called MakeBeliefsComix.com in which the students will create a four panned comic depicting a scenario in which Newton’s Laws of motion are occurring.

3. Social Participation/Social Learning–

After the students learn about Newton’s three laws from the power point the student will participate in an in class demonstration of what Newton’s three laws look like in the environment. Students will learn about Newton’s first Law by rolling on a cart that suddenly stops, but they do not as they fall into a pile of bags. Students will see Newton’s second law in action as they try to knock me over using force by changing their acceleration. Students will learn about Newton’s third law by running into a wall of bags and seeing what the bags do right back to them.

4. Making Connections–

a)    Previous knowledge will be shown through the opening of the class completing a starter and during the lecture I will be asking the students about situations they have come across while involved in sports or other activities they may be involved in. 

b)    Students will be shown a video staring Darth Vader and myself. The student will love the fact that their teacher is talking to the Dark Lord in their classroom.

c)    Students will participate in in-class activities involving football bags and carts. I will relate these activities to Professional sports they may be watching on Sunday.

d)   Students will use what they learned during the lesson and create a comic using the MakeBeliefsComic.com Web 2.0 tool. Example posted below.

1. Create/Produce –

The Students will create a comic strip using the web2.0 tool on MakeBeliefsComix.com, in which the students will show their knowledge of Newton’s three laws of motion in action. Using the information they have just learned the students will produce a short comic which will inform the other students of the three laws of motion they may encounter outside the classroom. This will be a great activity in which not only the students will be able to apply what they have learned, but share and teach the other students what they have learned by presenting the comic to the class. Example posted below:

2. Assessment –

The students will participate in a 5 question quiz which will help me as instructor determine which parts of the lesson work and what did not.

5-4 correct is Proficient

3 correct is Basic

2 correct is below Basic

1-0 correct is Far below Basic

3. Reflection – The reflection for the RILS must have two parts.

a.     Students will be given a starter on the next school session which will ask them to restate Newton’s three laws in their own words by giving examples they may have seen in their everyday life.

b.     As an educator I will view the results of the assessment and determine which part of the lesson the students need to be re-taught. Any question which has lower than 50% passing rate will be re-taught during the next school session.  

  Educator Studio RILS Link:
http://www.educatorstudio.com/lessons/newtons-three-laws-motion