STaR Hero Journey (FINAL)

 Science TEKS- Long Strand Concepts with Essence Statements K-12

K-2.1.B create original products using a variety of resources;

Gardening TEK- 

K-2.1.B create original products using a variety of resources;

Gardening Topic:

Investigating the different organisms that would make up our gardening ecosystem(How will they interact with one another? Which are producers, consumers?)

Materials Needed: 

- Cricut bumble bee design

- Fake Flowers

- Pipe cleaners

- Colored powder

Gardening MakerSpace Hero Journey:

ISTE CT Standards

3a: Model and learn with students how to formulate computational solutions to problems and how to give and receive actionable feedback.

Students will watch a video of how a bee pollinates a flower. Students will formulate their own computational solutions to problems consumers can cause in a garden.

3b: Apply effective teaching strategies to support student collaboration around computing, including pair programming, working in varying team roles, equitable workload distribution, and project management.

3c: Plan collaboratively with other educators to create learning activities that cross disciplines to strengthen student understanding of CT and CS concepts and transfer application of knowledge in new contexts.

Since this is a group project, my partner and I will collaborate and work with one another to create a lesson to help students understand the CT and CS standards. 

Guiding Questions:

- My partner and I have chosen to use the Digital Presentation for our MakerSpace. Students will create a Google Slide Presentation discussing the relationship of organisms to their environment. 

- K.9(B) Child observes, investigates, describes and discusses the relationship of organisms to their environments. 

- 3.10(A) explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment. 

Service Project Preparation: 

How will you exemplify a learner response or two? 

Exemplifying is showing or giving an example of something. So exemplifying a learner's response is done by asking questions at the beginning of the lesson to see what the students know and asking questions at the end of the lesson to see what the students learned. 

How will you make your activity DIGITALLY creative and collaborative among the participants? 

Using the crikut we are able to cut out a templet of a bee that the students are to put together on their own. This activity shows students the use of technology but also allowing them be creative and to do an activity that is done by hands on work. 

How will you promote and support learners toward a CCISD Multimedia fair submission? 

Promoting will happen by explaining the use of digital creative tool the students saw throughout the lesson. They saw it through the AI story and through the activity itself. The students can use these digital tools toward the multimedia fair. 

What question and sentence prompts will you use to demonstrate Growth Mindset and Appreciative Inquiry facilitation within your activity? 

The students will learn how bees pollinate flowers in the garden. Questions I will ask the students to demonstrate growth mindset are based on the activity. I will ask the students comprehension questions such as "What do bees do in the garden?" , "How does a bee pollinate?", and "What does a pollinating do?" These questions will allow the students to think about what they have learned and use their comprehension skills and growth mindset to understand. 

LIGHTning IDEA Slide