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This podcast is part of the series: Alabama Quality Teaching Standards Demonstration Lessons

Kisha Tolbert-Woods

School/Organization:

Tarrant Intermediate School, Tarrant City Schools, in cooperation with the Governor's Commission on QualityTeaching.

Overview:

This lesson is focused on variables and their effect on the length of the flight of the students' "airplanes". This is a very hands-on lesson in which students are asked to adjust variables and analyze the impacts of those adjustments. Students work in small groups and collaborate in all phases of this lesson.

Length: 40:57

Content Areas: Professional Development

Alabama Course of Study Alignments and/or Professional Development Standard Alignments:

AQTS_1.A.5: Academic Discipline(s) [Ability to help students make connections across the curriculum in order to promote retention and transfer of knowledge to real-life settings.]
AQTS_1.B.3: Curriculum [Ability to select content and appropriately design and develop instructional activities to address the scope and sequence of the curriculum.]
AQTS_2.C.3: Learning Environment [Ability to develop a positive relationship with every student and to take action to promote positive social relationships among students, including students from different backgrounds and abilities.]
AQTS_2.D.6: Instructional Strategies [Ability to make developmentally appropriate choices in selecting teaching strategies to assist diverse learners in meeting instructional objectives.]