Lesson plans require careful planning. To create a meaningful and relevant learning experience for students, teachers must consider the standards and learning objectives, the needs of the students, effective methods and strategies, and appropriate assessment strategies.

Based on your discussion and collaboration with your mentor teacher during your first field experience, incorporate mentor feedback to create a lesson plan for your content area.

For this benchmark, you will use the “COE Lesson Plan Template” to create a cross-disciplinary STEM lesson plan, aligned to your state standards.

Be specific when including the following:

Theme and description in the Lesson Summary and Focus section

State and NGSS standards, across content areas, that support the theme of the lesson and unit in the National/State Learning Standards section

• Strategies to develop cross-disciplinary skills, encourage inquiry, and engage students in applying the central concepts within science, technology, engineering, and math in the Multiple Means of Engagement section
• Resources, materials, and technology to guide students to access, interpret, evaluate, and apply information in science, technology, engineering, and math in the Resources, Materials, Equipment, and Technology section
• With the approval of your mentor teacher, implement this lesson in Clinical Field Experience C.
• In addition, write a 250-500 word reflection on the process of creating a STEM lesson plan. Include in your reflection:

How you integrated feedback from your mentor teacher.

Explanation of your collaboration with the librarian or media specialist (from Clinical Field Experience A).

Who else, either at the school site or in the community, might you collaborate with in developing this lesson?