Educational Service Unit #17 Lesson Plans


 

Problem Solving with Shapes

Objective: To create as many different shapes as possible with three toothpicks.

 

Digit Place Game

Objective: To demonstrate place value of whole numbers.

 

Angle Estimation

Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate and estimate the sizes of an angle formed from a hands-on model.

 

Multiplication and Addition Skills

Objective: Students will enforce multiplication and/or addition skills through a game format. Students will work in small group or whole group settings. Students will also develop probability/chance concepts.

 

Fractions

Objective: The students will add multiply, and divide proper and improper fractions with common and uncommon denominators to find the answer of one.

 

Probability

Objective: Using dice, the students will determine the probability of certain outcomes. After collecting data, they will then determine the mode, median and range. Eventually they will make predictions.

Prior Knowledge:

¥ Using other sets of data.

¥ Graphing techniques.

¥ Ability to find range, median & mode.

 

Measurement-Scale Application

Objective: 1). Improve note taking.

2). Transfer knowledge from notes to practical application.

3). Visual experience with actual sizes of various whales.

4). Use of measurement basics to reproduce to scale.

Read Whales by Seymour Simon together. Reread and have students take notes on toothed and baleen whales. Make a chart/graph comparing the sizes of males and female whales: sperm, narwhal, killer, right, gray, fin, blue, and humpback. Assign a whale to a group of students. Give them adding machine tape and have them go into a long hallway and measure out the length of their whale with yard sticks. Construct a graph with all the length of adding machine tape in the hallway. Have students write the name of the whale and length in feet on the tape. Using overhead projectors, have students trace pictures of their chosen whale using the scale of 1 foot=1 inch. Have them cut out the shapes, color, write their notes about the whale, and the name of the whale on the reproductions and hang in the hallway.

 

Place Value

Objective: Place value, reading large numbers.

 

Skip counting, even and odd numbers

Objective: To use a hundred chart to skip count and identify even and odd numbers.

 

Fractions

Objective: Write a fraction to show a part of a whole. Compare fractions using pattern blocks. Add and subtract fractions using pattern blocks.

 

Equal Part of a Whole

Objective: Show 1/2 with pattern blocks. Identify equal parts of a whole.

 

Problem Solving

Objective: The student will find different ways to show the answer to the problem presented.

 

Estimating and Charting

Objective: Students will learn estimation, comparing object and reading large numbers. "Make the chart".

 

Angles

Objective: Students will practice and gain knowledge of angles and perimeter.

 

Place Value

Objective: To work with place value through hundreds place, to work with number sense, to vocalize numerical ideas.

 

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