Lesson+Plan

**SUBJECT:** Algebra **NAME:** Kelsey Fairburn **Rationale for selecting the learning outcomes:** Explain the importance of the relationship between charts and real life scenarios. **DATE:** October 31, 2011 **TIME ALLOTTED:** 65 minutes **ORGANIZATION:** Small group Individual **__Objectives__ (from NC Standard Course of Study):** 4.01 Collect, organize, analyze, and display data (including box plots and histograms) to solve problems. **__Student Learning Outcomes__:** At the end of this lesson, students __will__: The students will create a box plot through completing a worksheet that is assigned individually. The student will utilize the technology, ToonDoo, effectively. **__Teaching Mode__:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Direct <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**__Provision for Individual Differences__:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Information will be presented verbally and visually. ToonDoo will be created individually <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">and there will also be a worksheet that will be completed individually and in small groups. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**__Teaching Strategy(ies)__ (list)** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Teaching the original content <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Allowing the students to help each other <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Having the students show what they know <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Utilizing what they have learning in a Web 2.0 technology visualization <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">* <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**__LESSON ACTIVITIES__** **(COMPLETE 1-8)** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**STEP 1. Anticipatory Set: (Motivation/Assessment of Prior Knowledge) 5 min** <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Explain why box plots are useful, stating what you can get from just looking at the figure, and <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">relaying how organized information can make situations a whole lot simpler. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**STEP 2. Overview of learning outcomes to pupils: 1 minute** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">By the end of the lesson, each student will be able to create their own box plot and interpret the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">information. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">ToonDoo will also be used to organize what is learned. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**STEP 3. Input of information: 15 minutes** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Short lecture of box plots and what the quartile ranges are by using an overhead and an overhead graphing calculator. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**STEP 4. Modeling/Examples: 15 minutes** <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Write on board example of how to do a problem, show from overhead how to do a problem. <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Also, explain in class how to create a ToonDoo and create one in front of the class, bring in the <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">final copy to show the class. Explain that this will be used for homework and we will touch on  <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">this activity at the end of class. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**STEP 5. Checking for Understanding: 5 minutes** <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Short worksheet where students work in a small group of 2 or 3 to complete (incorporate colored  <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">pencils to differentiate the different quartiles). <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Teacher will walk around and make sure class is doing it right. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**STEP 6. Guided Practice: 10 minutes** <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Ask students to come up to the front of the class to demonstrate what they did and explain to  <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">their classmates how they did it (colored dry erase markers may be used). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**STEP 7. Independent Practice: (Assignment may be part of closure - Step 8) 10 minutes** <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">A worksheet for students to do individually will be passed out and it would serve as a pass out the <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">door. The worksheet will contain higher level questions that involves more thinking and analyzing to assess <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">how well the students really comprehended the information. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**STEP 8. Closure: 4 minutes** <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Summary of lesson, reference to tomorrow’s work, and assignment of independent practices. <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The independent practice will be homework that asks the class to create their own ToonDoo which <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">explains through a summary what the importance of a box plot, the steps, etc.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**__Materials needed for this lesson__:** <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Paper, pencil, colored pencils, graphing calculator, white board, white board pens, overhead, and <span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">overhead graphing calculator **