Weekly+Lesson+Plan

ASSURE: Lesson Plan =** Analyze your learners: ** =

In this lesson it will be a 3rd grade class in which math is the main focus.  MA.A.3.2.2. "selects the appropriate operation to solve specific problems involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication of whole numbers, decimals, and fractions, and division of whole numbers"  MA.B.3.2.1. "solves real-world problems involving estimates of measurements, including length, time, weight, temperature, money, perimeter, area, and volume"  LA.A.1.2.2. "selects from a variety of simple strategies, including the use of phonics, word structure, context clues, self-questioning, confirming simple predictions, retelling, and using visual cues, to identify words and construct meaning from various texts, illustrations, graphics, and charts."  LA.B.2.2.1. "writes notes, comments, and observations that reflect comprehension of content and experiences from a variety of media"  LA.C.1.2.3. "carries on an extended conversation with a group of friends"

= **State your objectives**: =

Using their knowledge of the Order of Operations students will be able to calculate the right number of steps to get to the answer.  Using their analyzing skills students will be able to put all the clues together and locate which state the thief lives in.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Using the videos from YouTube they will be able to explain the process of extract a hidden message. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Using the data they have collected over the week students will be able to formulate an answer to the mystery as to who stole from our classroom. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Using their knowledge of division skills students will be able to locate the position of our stolen items. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> This lesson will focus on the Bloom's taxonomy levels of Knowledge through Synthesis.

=<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; vertical-align: baseline;">Select your media: = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Projector cart/Old style projector Computer lab

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Videos from YouTube <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Word/ power point =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; vertical-align: baseline;">Utilize your media: = <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif;">Print out these worksheets for the groups to accomplish (leaving off the last page containing the answers of course), for the children's Day 3 exercise <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> [] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet to let kids research who exactly the thief is. Create a power point on detectives for the kids to understand what it is they do.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Reserve the computer lab to research on Thursday. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Use the videos on YouTube to show kids how to reveal hidden messages <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Use projector cart on Tuesday to properly view the videos all together as a class. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Old style projector cart to view sample letter and Davy's letter. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Use word to create the initial math warm-up worksheet. =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; vertical-align: baseline;">Require Learner participation: = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">On Monday I want the children to realize what has happened to the classroom and move into their assigned groups. From here on out for the rest of the week they will work in these teams. They all have assigned group names and even their own detective hats and magnifying glasses and badges they can wear only during the time spent on the mystery. They must work individually on the warm up multiplication worksheet that should be handed out to them. Once the entire group has turned in the worksheet they are allowed one person on their team to go to the computer and copy down the first clue from the activities page. They will then decode it together and find the "missing item" from the classroom. Group 1 should find that the Davy Crockett book is missing, Group 2 should find that the reading bear from the reading center is missing, and Group should find that the party supplies we had been collecting are all gone. The first group to finish everything and be seated will be awarded the stars for their badges. At the end the class will be given an extra clue from the teachers knowledge of the perpetrator. <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;">On Tuesday I want the kids to learn about detectives and how they work, for the perpetrator has left another set of clues for the kids to figure out. The teacher should first explain about detectives and the things they do using the link in teacher resources and maybe even power point that they put together beforehand. The the teacher should pull up the videos from the student activities page and project them onto the screen for kids to watch about hidden messages. If your class does not have a screen you can simply allow the kids to watch it on separate computers themselves or from your computer. Once they have finished watching the videos they must each write and turn in a 50 word paper on the ways to reveal hidden messages and the safest way. When an entire group has finished the teacher will reveal one of the hidden messages left by the thief. The first group to do this will earn their stars and at the end the teacher will reveal another extra clue. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">On Wednesday The clues will be put up on the board and the kids must think together as a group to decode their states worksheets and use their states map to find out which state our thief resides in. They can look up more information on states on the computer but only one person from a group at a time since they are to work together! The first group to successfully tell me he lives in Tennessee will be awarded their stars and after all three groups have figured it out then the next clue will be given by the teacher, make sure all students are recording these clues for tomorrow they will be researching alone. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">On Thursday the computer lab will be booked for our research. The final clue will be given once everyone is seated at a computer. At that time they will have 25 minutes to figure out who is our thief. The first to do so will earn their entire team half of the stars for Thursday for their badges. Once everyone has figured it out (or time is up) then we will return to the classroom where each student must write their own letter to Davy Crockett to ask where he has placed our stolen items. Teacher can at this point display an example letter showing proper format for a letter. Final stars for Thursday are awarded to the team who is finished with all their letters first. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;">On Friday the teacher should put up the letter from Davy Crockett and in their groups the kids must decipher the map instructions, the first group to finish will be awarded the final stars of the week. Once all teams are done we will as a class go and retrieve our stolen goods from Davy's accomplice (one of our teachers). When we return we will have our party supplies and cookies I have secretly brought in today for their snack! At this point it is announced which team has won and will get to keep their detective hats and magnifying glasses. All teams can keep their badges! <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial;">Afterward kids must be informed that their learning about Davy Crockett is not over as we will begin learning about research papers and he is our topic, all kids must research him some more over the weekend and bring in a fact on Monday to be discussed in groups. =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; vertical-align: baseline;">Evaluate and Revise: = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I think this lesson turned out rather well except next time maybe pick and easier person for the kids to locate on the computers to be the thief.