Name: Alison Griepentrog
Mentor Teacher's Signature & Date
Mini-Research eBook Lesson Plan 2
Teaching Strategy Activity
Title of Mini-Research eBook Lesson: Lets Find Shapes
Primary Learning Outcome (PLO):
The primary learning outcomes to be achieved with this lesson include:
PLO: Students
will identify two-dimensional figures in their everyday lives.
Materials and Equipment:
1. Have an example of Mini-Research eBook activity to show students
2. Paper for drawing
3. Crayons and/or color markers
4. Pencil & paper (to make notes for lesson plan assessment and
reflections)
5. Modification of a lesson developed by Dr. Diane L. Judd
Technology Connection:
Technologies that will be used in this lesson include:
Procedures:
Step One:
Introduction
Have a small group of students go to a computer. Explain to
students that you are going to use the computer to read an
Mini-Research eBook
about shapes.
List 2 or more
questions that introduce students
to your Mini-Research eBook that will establish a
connection to students' prior knowledge by asking them:
1. "What kind of shapes do you see if you
look around the classroom?"
2. "Can you tell
me about a sqaure? a rectangle? a circle? a triangle?"
Today we are going
to read an eBook
on the Internet. I have made a special Mini-Research eBook on the
Internet for your
class. (During discussion have students turn around away from the
computer to interact.)
Estimated Time for Step One:
5 minutes
Step Two
Teaching the Primary Learning Outcomes:
(Students will sit at the computer where they can control the mouse
and computer.) (Explain to students the process of the
lesson.) After we read the Mini-Research eBook and visit
several websites.
Check for understanding
Students with teacher assistance will read the Mini-Research eBook,
explore, and
discuss
the information in the four linking websites that go with the
Mini-Research eBook. Ask
students guiding
questions about the important concepts in the Mini-Research eBook and
the linking
websites. List four or more questions from each of your
linking websites that will guide your students to gain information for
your PLO.
1. What other things can
you name that are shaped like a square?
2. What other
shapes do you see in the pictures?
3. The pizza is shaped like a
circle, what other shapes do you see in the picture?
4. What other kind of fruit can
be in the shape of a triangle?
Practice and feedback related to the
PLO
Read the Mini-Research eBook project to students. Explain to
students that
they
are going to go on a scavenger hunt, and they will find and draw a
picture of a circle, a square, a rectangle and a triangle.
Tell
the
students that the information that they will need to complete
their Mini-Research eBook project is listed and connected in
the Mini-Research eBook
activity. Review the
information in the linked website in
the Mini-Research eBook activity with the students to emphasize
interesting and important information students will need to complete
mission
project.
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Mini-Research
eBook Teaching Strategy Activity
Lesson 2 Directions:
1. Everyone will have one
piece of paper. Fold your
paper into four sections. Fold the paper in half, and then in half
again; this will make four sections.2. In each section of the paper, write the name of one shape you learned about; square, rectangle, circle, and triangle. I will write each name out for you. 3. I have cut out shapes. Pick one of each shape and with a little dot of glue, glue the shape in the right section. Make sure to leave room for your drawings later. 4. We are going to walk around the room looking for shapes. As we walk around the room, point out different shapes. 5. Pick out one example of a shape, draw and color a picture of the object you found in the classroom in the correct section on your paper. 6. Do this for a square, a rectangle, a triangle, and a cirlce. 7. Make sure your pictures are colorful and neat! |
Step Three
Closure:
Have students discuss their Mini-Research eBook activity and
information they found on the Internet.
Tell students that your Mini-Research eBook Website is on the Internet
and
they can
visit the website at school or home. Explain to students
that you are going to put their pictures and information
on the Internet and they will be able to share their mission
projects with
their friends and family. (If possible teacher should take
brief
notes during the lesson and concluding discussions to be added
later
to the assessment and reflections in lesson plan.)
Estimated Time for Step Three:
5 minutes
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Accommodation:
This will be turned in as an in-class activity.
Comments & Reflections:
Assessment for the
Primary Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
Student will be assessed through
observation and oral discussion to
evaluate if student with teacher guidance is able to identify
different shapes around the room and match the shape with the
object. Students will match paper cut-outs of shapes with the spelling
of each word and also draw a picture of a classroom object.
| Level 3 | Level 2 | Level 1 | |
| PLO: Students will identify two-dimensional figures seen in their everyday lives. | Student is able to recognize squares, circles, rectangles, and triangles around the room with no help from the teacher. | Student with teacher guidance is able to recognize a few shapes. | Student is not able with teacher guidance to recognize shapes. |
| Student | Performance
Level |
Descriptions
of Students' Evidence that Illustrate the Achieved Performance Level of
the PLO (* To receive full credit description must include minimum of two sentences and a detailed example of the students' evidence.) |
| 1 |
3 |
This
student put each shape in one section of her paper. She correctly
labeled each shape in the correct section. When she was drawing her
shapes she found in the classroom, she drew the correct object in the
correct box. The calender was shaped like a rectangle, but she wanted
to use it for a square so the day of the week was a square. I asked her
to circle the square in the drawing. I asked her to label her shapes
and tell me what she drew, she wrote in the box that she drew a clock,
and esel, a calender and a piece of paper. |
| 2 |
3 |
Durring the eBook, this student answered all questions correctly. She could not find a triangle, but the number family house had a triangle "on it", so I asked her to circle the triangle, and she did so correctly. She labeled each shape and each obsect correctly according to the picture of the shape she glued in that particular section. |
1.
Comment and describe the
learning strategy
that you implemented in your
Mini-Research eBook Teaching Strategy Lesson. (*
To receive full credit description must include a minimum of two
sentences and a detailed example.)
When teaching this lesson, I included realy life picture of food that the students would be familiar with. Each page also had a link to an educational website, that reviewed different shapes. The students had to find shapes, match shapes with colors, and make pattern containing shapes. I also connected my shapes activity with their everyday surroundings, their classroom.
2. State evidence to show that
your students gained knowledge during your Mini-Research eBook Teaching
Strategy Lesson. (*
To receive full credit description must include a minimum of two
sentences and a detailed example.)
When we were talking about the basic shapes, square, rectangle, circle and triangle, all of the students recognized the shapes. They also told me how those shapes were like a cube, cylinder, and rectangular prism. When reffering to objects in their everyday lives, if I asked what shape something was, the could tell me.
3. Give at least one suggestion that would lead to improving your teaching practices and student achievement. (* To receive full credit description must include a minimum of two sentences and a detailed example.)
The triangles were hard to find in the classroom. Before teaching, maybe I could bring a few triangle shaped objects and randomly place them in the room.
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Link to Email algriepentrog@valdosta.edu |
Title &
Link of your Mini-Research eBook Shapes are Everywhere! |