Lesson Plans

Let's Go Shopping

Overview

Students will be given a task card stating how to spend a certain amount of money. Students must look through sale papers, find the items to purchase, add the totals, multiply quantities, subtract from the total, and write a check to purchase the items.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

Learning Resource Type

Lesson Plan

Objectives

Primary Learning Objectives

Students will be able to

compute addition, multiplication, and subtraction problems including decimal amounts
calculate total sums
write number in word form

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Painter Problems

Overview

This lesson will allow students to become familiar with ratios. In this investigative lesson students will compare ratios and determine equivalent ratios. This is an introductory lesson to be used as part of a unit.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

Learning Resource Type

Lesson Plan

Objectives

Primary Learning Objectives

I CAN identify and develop ratios in real world situations.

I CAN identify equivalent ratios.

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Aligned Standards

National/Other Standards

Math Practice Standards:

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4. Model with mathematics.

5. Use appropriate tools strategically.

6. Attend to precision.

7. Look for and make use of structure.

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Take the Stairs to Slope!

Overview

This lesson allows students to investigate the slope criteria and characteristics of parallel lines using graphing calculators and school staircases. Students will also use equations and graphs. Students will work cooperatively to develop and justify ideas/conjectures.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

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Lesson Plan

Objectives

Primary Learning Objectives

Students will discover and use the properties of parallel lines.

Students will find equations of parallel lines given other equations of lines passing through other points.

Students will use slope definitions with rise over run and formulas to solve problems and justify reasoning for developed discoveries.

Additional Learning Objective(s)

Students will work cooperatively to discover patterns in the graph table of values while problem solving.

Students will verify conclusions by finding slope and understanding properties of paralell lines.

Students will measure and document lengths of stairs and compare values to determine parallel slopes.

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Understanding Poetry: Annotating Puritan Poetry

Overview

This lesson is part of a larger unit dealing with Early American Literature. In this lesson, students will become familiar with the figurative devices and strategies used by 17th Century Puritan poets when creating closed or fixed form poetry.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

Learning Resource Type

Lesson Plan

Objectives

Primary Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

Locate the following devices used in a meditation poem. (true rhyme, eye rhyme, apostrophe, metaphor, repetition, personification, and allusion)
Determine the rhyme scheme of a selected meditation poem.
Explain the meaning and/or significance of the metaphors, allusions, and repetition in a selected meditation poem.
"Map out" the iambic pentameter used in Puritan meditation poetry.

Additional Learning Objective(s)

At the conclusion of this unit of study, students will create their own meditation poem adhering to the following requirements:

Must be in aabbcc rhyme scheme.
Must be six lines long.
Final couplet must summarize the entire poem.
Must contain one metaphor and apostrophe.

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Spiders: Are They Scary or Nice?

Overview

Children often do not understand spiders because spiders look scary. In this lesson, students will graph spider preferences and record observations of spiders in a natural habitat. Students will research spider information using the Internet. Students will illustrate a vivarium for a spider habitat, including five environmental characteristics.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

Subject Area

Science

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Learning Resource Type

Lesson Plan

Objectives

Primary Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Depict spider preferences on a chart, count, and compare the numbers

• Describe at least three characteristics of a spider's habitat

• Identify two animals that are prey of spiders

• Explain special adaptations spiders have made to live in their environment

• Predict about what will happen if an insect is added to the vivarium

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Content Standard(s)

SC15.2.7

AAS.SC15.2.7

Inferencing Detective

Overview

Students will learn to make inferences based on evidence and prior knowledge about their teacher (by looking at objects), classmates (by viewing drawings or PowerPoint), and a reading passage.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

Learning Resource Type

Lesson Plan

Objectives

Primary Learning Objectives

Students should be able to:

construct an inference by looking at objects
formulate an inference from a reading passage
justify an inference by providing text evidence to support the inference

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Beyond Plot Summary Part 2: Critical Thinking and Writing About Plot Development

Overview

Using the plot development toolkit, students will identify and explain plot development of a class text, including generating their own reflections, original ideas, and discussion regarding how events interact and shape character, mood, tone, and conflict.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

Subject Area

English Language Arts

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Learning Resource Type

Lesson Plan

Objectives

Primary Learning Objectives

Students will compose an effective response addressing development of plot of a major text/in class reading.

Students will identify and label elements of an effective response within their own writing.

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Content Standard(s)

AAS.ELA15.9.1

AAS.ELA15.10.1

How Far Can You Leap?

Overview

This lesson will allow students to become familiar with the concept of unit rate. Through an open investigation students will develop methods to find unit rate with a table, equivalent ratios, or an equation. This is a lesson to be used as part of a unit with "Painter Problems" and "How Big Should It Be?"

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

Learning Resource Type

Lesson Plan

Objectives

Primary Learning Objectives

I CAN identify and develop ratios in real world situations.

I CAN identify equivalent ratios.

I CAN compare ratios in real world situations.

I CAN use equivalent ratios to find the unit rate.

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Aligned Standards

National/Other Standards

Math Practice Standards:

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4. Model with mathematics.

5. Use appropriate tools strategically.

6. Attend to precision.

7. Look for and make use of structure.

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Socratic Seminar About Non-Conformity

Overview

Students will participate in a Socratic Seminar to discuss the idea of non- conformity as a relative theme in the novel Stargirl. Students will refer to text annotations and class discussions (completed TPFASTT optional) to make contributions to the student-led discussion.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

Learning Resource Type

Lesson Plan

Objectives

Primary Learning Objectives

Students will be able to lead and participate in a student led formal discussion based on the theme of non-conformity as a culminating activity to the reading of Stargirl. Students will establish group norms to follow during the discussion, and will prepare text related questions, using question stems, to bring to the discussion. Students will cite textual evidence to support contributions to the discussion using the actual text. (TPFASTT is optional).

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How Big Should it Be?

Overview

This lesson will allow students to become familiar with the concept of equivalent ratios and similar objects. Through an open investigation, students will develop methods to find equivalent ratios. This is a lesson to be used as part of a unit with Painter Problems and How Far Can You Leap found in ALEX.

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

Learning Resource Type

Lesson Plan

Objectives

Primary Learning Objectives

I CAN identify and develop ratios in real world situations.

I CAN identify equivalent ratios.

I CAN compare ratios in real world situations.

National/Other Standards

Math Practice Standards:

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

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