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EDUC 5272 Written Assignment 4 An Analysis of A 2nd Grade STEM Activity

This document analyzes a 2nd grade STEM activity where students go on a shape hunt to recognize, sort, and match basic 2D shapes such as squares, triangles, and circles. It provides the learning objective, describes the activity, and develops a rubric to evaluate student performance. The rubric assesses students' ability to recognize, name, match, and find different numbers of 2D shapes, categorizing performance levels as exceeding, achieved, consolidating, or developing expectations.

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EDUC 5272 Written Assignment 4 An Analysis of A 2nd Grade STEM Activity

This document analyzes a 2nd grade STEM activity where students go on a shape hunt to recognize, sort, and match basic 2D shapes such as squares, triangles, and circles. It provides the learning objective, describes the activity, and develops a rubric to evaluate student performance. The rubric assesses students' ability to recognize, name, match, and find different numbers of 2D shapes, categorizing performance levels as exceeding, achieved, consolidating, or developing expectations.

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An Analysis of a 2nd-grade STEM Activity

Anonymous

EDUC 5272: Advanced Practices for Teaching the STEM Fields

at the Elementary and Middle School Levels

University of the People

Dr. Evrim Erbilgin

February 24, 2021


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An Analysis of a 2nd-grade STEM Activity

STEM is essential for our upcoming generation because it offers significant and real-

world vulnerability to meaningful math, science, technology, and engineering theories while

further equipping children with society's future requirements. Since science and technology are

continuously improving, students with a STEM education will have a real opportunity to impact

life. Nowadays, most prominent companies and global endeavors, like artificial intelligence,

cancer research, or space exploration, require science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM)

(SCITECH Institute, 2018). This paper will create a grading rubric for a STEM learning activity

for elementary students from Playdough to Plato.

Learning Objective for 2D Shape Hunt Learning Activity

Students will recognize names, sort and match basic two-dimensional shapes, such as

square, triangle, hexagon, rectangle, and circle (Play Dough to Plato, n.d.).

Description of the 2D Shape Hunt Learning Activity

Grade 2 Activity (ages 4 to 6)


This activity is called 2D shape hunt, a fun but simple way to learn about 2D shapes! We

will know how to recognize, match, and find many different forms around the environment, such

as circles, hexagons, rectangles, squares, trapezoids, and triangles (Play Dough to Plato, n.d.). It

is also an excellent way to do a little exercise while doing this fun math activity!
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Getting Ready

To prepare, get a manila folder or card stock, scissors, a box cutter, and a pen.

Print out a shape hunt chart and trace the shapes on the manila folder. Next, cut them out using

the box cutter and trace them around the outside border with a black marker to make the figures

stand out.

You can do as many or as few shapes as you want. Here in the example, there are twelve —

circle, oval, square, isosceles triangle, equilateral triangle, right triangle, rectangle, rhombus,

trapezoid, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon.

The shape finder can help us identify all the different shapes around us. First, we will

name all of the shapes. Then, we will have to explain to the students the differences in the three

triangles.

Now we are ready to go and start hunting for 2D shapes outdoors with the whole class!

(If it is rainy or the weather does not allow us to go outside, we can look for 2D shapes inside the

classroom or school building.)


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Development of a STEM Rubric

Teachers use rubrics to help in evaluating whether the students have achieved the lesson's

learning outcomes. Likewise, it assists students before and during learning to successfully

interpret and predict proposed execution levels. Therefore, rubrics efficiently help teachers

assess the qualities of knowledge and communicate expected learning standards, assisting

students in analyzing their performance level, learning to improve performance, and achieving

high quality performance standards (Developing Rubrics, n.d.).

Whole Class Report Rubric Observation Record

Exceeding Achieved Consolidating Developing

Student can to Student can to Student is able With support,


recognize, name, recognize, name, to recognize, Student is able to
match and find match and find name, match recognize, name,
eight (10) to seven (7) to nine and find four match and find
twelve (12) 2D (9) 2D shapes (4) to six (6) one (1) to three
shapes such as such as circle, 2D shapes such (3) 2D shapes
circle, oval, oval, square, as circle, oval, such as circle,
square, isosceles isosceles square, oval, square,
Grade 2 triangle, triangle, isosceles isosceles
Student Name equilateral equilateral triangle, triangle,
triangle, right triangle, right equilateral equilateral
triangle, triangle, triangle, right triangle, right
rectangle, rectangle, triangle, triangle,
rhombus, rhombus, rectangle, rectangle,
trapezoid, trapezoid, rhombus, rhombus,
pentagon, pentagon, trapezoid, trapezoid,
hexagon, and hexagon, and pentagon, pentagon,
octagon. octagon. hexagon, and hexagon, and
octagon. octagon.
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1. Ahmad
2. Ahmed
3. Arvan
4. Elyan
5. Elyas
6. Honya
7. Faisal
8. Noor
9. Nurallah
10. Roza
11. Siver
12. Yasmeen
13. Zhya

To sum up, every country requires its economy to have science, technology, engineering,

and math (STEM) expertise to stay competitive in the global market. Hence, the new generation

of students must equip themselves with STEM skills before graduating from high school.

Therefore, STEM is not only about science and math; it is about being ready for college, careers,

and life (Soucy, n.d.).


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References

Developing Rubrics (n.d.). Retrieved


from https://assess.pages.tcnj.edu/files/2011/06/Developing-Rubrics.pdf.

Play Dough to Plato. (n.d.). 2D shape hunt. https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/shape-hunt/

SCITECH Institute. (2018, January 18). Long-term benefits of STEM for society.
https://scitechinstitute.org/long-term-benefits-of-stem-for-society/

Soucy, C. (n.d.). What is the difference between NGSS & CCSS?


https://study.com/academy/popular/what-is-the-difference-between-ngss-ccss.html

Twinkl. (n.d.). 2D shapes EYLF assessment rubric/guide to making judgement.


https://www.twinkl.com.au/resource/2d-shapes-eylf-assessment-rubric-guide-to-making-
judgement-au-pa-209

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