STEM Simulation Requirements

Please not that this will be a group grade! If you are absent, you will not receive any group presentation points. However, you may do the extra activities below or from other assignments to earn extra points needed for your course grade.

There is a [[Media:Lesson_Plan_Template.doc|Lesson Plan template]] available. Use as is or modify as you see fit for your lesson plan.

Minimal: 100 points

 * Lesson plans
 * created and posted on wiki for a 1-3 day unit based on given simulation (70 points)
 * Content standards addressed by unit and activities listed
 * Connections to situation simulation is modeling: e.g. hands on activity or other life-outside-the-classroom connection, including links to background information
 * Grading rubric for unit – how will students be assessed? (10 points)
 * Presentation of unit to whole class (20 points)

Extra: up to 50 points

 * Extension activities for unit
 * Technology standards addressed by unit and activities listed
 * New Ideas/Designs for implementing new simulations for activities
 * What topic would you like to have a simulation for? Why?
 * What would the simulation be? What would it do? How would it look like?
 * How would students use it? What kinds of activities would you build around it?