Standard #7 Planning for Instruction
The teacher draws upon knowledge of content
areas, cross-disciplinary skills, learners, the
community, and pedagogy to plan instruction
that supports every student in meeting rigorous
learning goals.
Artifact
The lab that is linked above includes dropping pennies and glass beads into a beaker filled with water and measuring their volume based off of displacement. In this lab we use equations and basic measurements to find the volume, density and mass of the objects. A fundamental part of mathematics is the use of calculations and measurements. Tying simply math equations into this science lesson draws upon knowledge of content from another content area and subsequently cross-disciplinary skills.
In this lesson students look at the history of mask mandates during the COVID pandemic to see how the scientific method is used in current issues. This relates science to social studies and history to demonstrate the center of all sciences. Cross disciplinary skills from social studies and history are brought up and strengthened during this lesson as kids are required look up what the past mandates have been for the last two years. The information is then extrapolated to encompass other pandemics such as the Spanish flu and yellow fever outbreaks during the twentieth century. It also uses local information from the state of Maine and surrounding community to show how the scientific method has been used during the COVID pandemic.
