Grade 2 STEM
Yearly Plan | |||
| Unit Title | STEM Fluency | Digital Citizenship | Keyboarding |
| Time | 2-3 days | 1-2 days | 2 days |
| Understandings | Students understand how to utilize the engineering design process, independently creating when given a minimum of 3 constraints. Students understand how to demonstrate respect and courtesy while creating and innovating as a team. Students understand, with or without background knowledge, how to communicate effectively, follow directions, focus on the problem, generate at least one idea to solve the problem, test their idea, and reflect to create a useful solution during the design process. Students understand how to compromise with group members in the face of frustrations due to varying opinions. Students understand how to identify resources needed and how to use them effectively by planning out steps. | Students understand how to identify and demonstrate legal and ethical behavior online.
Students understand how to maintain privacy, safety, and security.
Students understand how to keep accounts safe by creating strong passwords and log off accounts and devices.
Students understand how to compare and contrast private and public information and what is safe to share online.
Students understand what cyberbullying is and can identify examples. | Students understand correct keyboarding techniques while locating keys on the keyboard, including letters, numbers, the spacebar, and backspace keys. |
| Technology Applications TEKS | T2.7, T2.9A, T2.9B, T2.9C | T2.8D, T2.8E | |
| Science TEKS (Supporting) | |||
| Career and Technical Education Programs of Study Alignment | |||
| Alignment to TEA’s STEM Fluency Skills | Communication • Use a variety of communication tools • Body Language Verbal Communication Active Listening Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity | Etiquette/Netiquette Verbal Communication Active Listening Critical Thinking | Communication - use a variety of communication tools |
Yearly Plan | ||||
| Unit Title | Coding | Robotics | Career Explorations: Structural Engineering | Career Explorations: Aerospace Engineering |
| Time | 2-5 days | 2-4 days | 3-6 days | 3-6 days |
| Understandings | Students understand how to communicate a problem or task and decompose multiple solutions into steps.
Students understand how to identify complex patterns and make predictions.
Students understand how to analyze a plan to complete a task with teacher support.
Students understand how to create and troubleshoot simple algorithms that include conditionals for everyday tasks. | Students understand how to identify and explore what a variable is in a sequence of code.
Students understand how to use a design process to create a sequence of code that includes loops to solve a simple problem with or without technology. | Students understand what a structural engineer's role is.
Students understand the types of structures engineers may build.
Students understand the purpose of a structure.
Students understand how to evaluate the strength of a structure for safety.
Students understand how to compare the design of multiple structures.
Students understand how to compare the iterations of their design.
Students understand how a structural engineer can help the community.
Students understand how to communicate so others can understand them, follow directions, and be flexible when their design idea doesn’t work (mental agility).
Students understand how to test their design and reflect about how it works.
Students understand how technology makes a difference in Structural Engineering. | Students understand the types of jobs aerospace engineers have.
Students understand how to construct prototypes of different types of aviation machine models.
Students understand how an aerospace engineer’s research and contributions impact the community.
Students understand how to communicate so others can understand me, follow directions, and be flexible when my design idea doesn’t work (mental agility).
Students understand how to test my design and reflect about how it works.
Students understand how technology makes a difference in Aerospace Engineering. |
| Technology Applications TEKS | T2.1A, T2.1B, T2.1C, T2.1D | T2.2A, T2.2B | T2.3A, T2.3B, T2.4 | T2.3A, T2.3B, T2.4 |
| Science TEKS (Supporting) | SC2.6C | SC2.7B | ||
| Career and Technical Education Programs of Study Alignment | Information Technology | Information Technology | Engineering | Engineering |
| Alignment to TEA’s STEM Fluency Skills | Communication • Use a variety of communication tools • Body Language Verbal Communication Active Listening Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity | Communication • Use a variety of communication tools • Body Language Verbal Communication Active Listening Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity | Communication • Use a variety of communication tools • Body Language Verbal Communication Active Listening Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity | Communication • Use a variety of communication tools • Body Language Verbal Communication Active Listening Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity |