Name: Shae Hare
Mentor Teacher's Signature & Date
Mini-Research eBook Lesson Plan 2
Teaching Strategy Activity
Title of Mini-Research eBook Lesson: Shapes Are Everywhere
Primary Learning Outcome (PLO):
The primary learning outcomes to be achieved with this lesson include:
PLO: The students will recognize basic
geometric shapes.
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
6. Clipped magazine, newspaper, etc., pictures of everyday objects in
the shape of circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles
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 basic geometric 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. "Can you tell me what a circle looks
like? A square? A triangle? A rectangle?"
2. "What are some things that are
circles? Squares? Triangles? Rectangles?"
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 does a circle look
like?
2. What does a
square look like?
3. What does a triangle look like?
4. What does a rectangle look
like?
Practice and feedback related to the
PLO
Read the Mini-Research eBook project to students. Explain to
students that
they
are going be shape spies, and they will sort
trough and group
objects that are circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles.
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
(Your Mini-Research eBook Teaching Strategy Activity copied from your Mini-Research eBook.) Real-World Activity: Pretend that
you are a shape spy. Your mission is
to find as many shapes as you can in your classroom. Look around your
classroom and find objects that are circles, squares, triangles, and
rectangles. Shapes can be found in everyday objects. If you forget what
the shapes look like, you can go back through the eBook to refresh your
memory. Remember that you are a spy, so you have to be super sneaky!
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Lesson 2 Directions:
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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, oral discussion, and developed product to
evaluate if student: recognizes basic geometric shapes. (Use information from your PLO at top
of page of this lesson.)
| Level 3 | Level 2 | Level 1 | |
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(List
your PLO from top of page of this lesson.) PLO: Students will recognize basic geometric shapes |
Student with teacher guidance is able to recognize the following four basic geometric shapes: circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles. | Student with teacher guidance is able to recognize some of the following four basic geometric shapes: circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles. | Student is not able with teacher guidance to recognize any of the following four basic geometric shapes: circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles. |
| 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 |
Student 1 was able to demonstrate recognition of circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares with teacher guidance. Student 1 was able to group together pictures of circles, triangles, rectangles and squares found in everyday objects with no teacher guidance. |
| 2 |
3 |
Student 2 was able to demonstrate recognition of circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares with teacher guidance. Student 2 was able to group together pictures of circles and triangles found in everyday objects with no teacher guidance. Student 2 was able to group together pictures of squares and rectangles found in everyday objects with teacher guidance. |
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.)
My Mini-Research
eBook Lesson utilized the classroom computers and
the internet. In my eBook a variety of educational links were used. The
links went to various educational videos and games on the internet. The
students seemed especially engaged with the videos from the Sesame
Street collection. Their eyes never left the computer screen!
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.)
All of the students I worked with came to me with difficulty in basic geometric shape recognition. Throughout the lesson, the students were able to point out shapes found in items all around their classroom. The students all performed at level 3 in the assessment done at the end of my Mini-Research eBook Lesson.
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 area of my teaching practices in which I need
the most
improvement is my spoken grammar. I need to more closely model Standard
English for my students. I find myself lapsing into grammar mishaps
such as "gonna" and "y'all" far too often. This is something that I am
working very hard to improve.
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Link to my
Email alhare@valdosta.edu |
Title &
Link of my Mini-Research eBook Shapes Are Everywhere Mini-Research eBook |