Leaders and Careers in STEM

Grade Levels: All

Suggested Time: 10 - 30 minutes

Overview

Using Plickers, students will share their prior knowledge of leaders who created developments in the Space Themed Missions created by Experium.

Objectives

Students will be able to learn of the leaders in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
Students will have knowledge of careers in STEM fields.

Required Project Materials

Plickers Cards (Print here: plickers.com/cards )
Plickers Website (see "Before the Lesson/Background Information" on how to use Plickers)
Phone with Plickers Application (For the teacher's use only)

*Can be downloaded through the Apple App Store and Google Play

*You use the app to scan the cards of the students and obtain their answers

Before the Lesson/Background Information

Use the Getting Started landing page (https://plickers.app.box.com/s/7w6x5t4jlm5q55lx61fzd0x8zudc0k04) to help set up your Plickers account and class
Print out Plicker Cards ( plickers.com/cards )

*These cards are re-usable

*Suggestion is to print the card on thick paper

Create and/or add the questions you would like to use into the "Question Queue" (https://plickers.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/214515237-Managing-Your-Question-Queue)
Set up into "Live View" to allow your students to see that their answer has been scanned (student enjoy seeing their number light up on the screen; it will not show if they got it right or wrong. They won't see the answer until you click the check button. Once the check button is clicked, students will see the answer and data and what students thought).
Live View Help: https://plickers.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217799028-How-to-Use-Live-View
If you need further help: https://plickers.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
Here is an example of how Plickers is used in the classroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMAX2EQnUXE
Tutorial of Plickers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bejiz2HzUz8

The Lessons

Leaders and Careers in STEM

* Educators can create a competition using teams and the team that correctly answers the most questions wins!

A question will be posed to them; they then think about their answer.
When ready, students will use their Plickers card.
For multiple choice, students will aim their answer (A, B, C, or D) towards the ceiling.