Lesson 2

The SIOP LESSON PLAN #2:
formatted for the ESOL Course

5th Grade Will Design Oakcliff's New Play Space Including Playgrounds, Soccer Fields, and Blacktop:  A STEM Unit Plan Integrating SIOP Language Goals 

Task Constraints for Lesson 2: 

1. You will research play equipment and play structures that match the needs and wishes of the class. Research will be mostly pictures with captions that your STEM TEAM write.
   1. You may use Snipping Tool to copy and paste pictures you find on various research sites.
   2. You may use the Bing Search for Online Images and insert the pictures directly into your Online STEM Notebook. The Online STEM Notebook has Several Links for your use.
      
   3. You will need to know the measurements (size) the equipment needs for safe operation. You will also decide the space for one or more soccer fields, and the goals. You may add picnic tables, bleachers, or other equipment so long as you can explain the use of space.

"Fun Tunnel" like basket ball

soccer goals

Technology I need to use:
Snipping Tool - to copy the images I find for the play structures

OneDrive & Microsoft Word - paste my images into the ONLINE STEM Notebook. Include the dimensions the thing will take up. This is usually Length times width, and looks like 23 feet x 40 feet.

Microsoft Bing or Google Chrome - to research the sizes of the soccer fields, play structures, etc.

Microsoft PAINT - to download the grid and add color overlays to show the area covered by the different play structures and areas my team chooses.

Tetherball pole and ball

Merry-go-round

swings

Whizzy Dizzy Spinner

monkey bar with rings

Tables and benches

See Saw or Teeter Totter

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Zip Line (near ground)

play structures

several soccer goals for multiple games of 5 v 5

soccer fields

At the end of this lesson

• I will be able to research ideas in pictures and words using the online STEM Notebook to store images, ideas, and math of fractions, percentages, or decimals.
  
• I will be able to search online exploring play structures and equipment focusing on pictures, then the I will read the descriptions of  the images I like in conversation with my partner, discuss the benefits of the structure and layout of the elements of play for the play space.
• I will be able to jointly pick the team's favorite 3 to 5 images of play equipment or structures and justify those choices with a short label of each picture.
• I will be able to discuss and then write 1 to 2 sentences on what it is that I like about the images.

Collecting the Data - Opinion Continuum

1. Students in class will Formulate-Share-Listen-Create as the teacher presents a question:
   
   "If you could design the perfect play space for this school, what would you include for equipment, fields, blacktop markings?"
   
   "What are the space requirements for our STEM team's selection?"
   
   
2. I will formulate my answer individually. Then I will share my answers with my STEM partner. I wll listen carefully to my partner’s answer, note the similarities and differences, and both of us will create a new answer that incorporates the best of both ideas, typing  their combined answer into the STEM Notebook. Later we will share with the rest of the class.

Ideas for Academic Interaction

Possible sentence frames...

1. At recess, I wish I could play ...
2. In PE, I want to play ___
3. I like to play ___ because ____.
4. Your idea is fun because ....
5. This idea is better because___
6. I like this part of that idea ___but I like this part ___ better.
7. I might play ___ if ____ were available.
8. Let's research ___ first and ____ next.
9. How can we have more soccer fields?
10. How could an obstacle course be made safe?
11. I want soccer goals to be movable or stuck in the ground because...