Coordinate Planes
Coordinate Planes
Coordinate Planes
Teacher Intern: Mary LePage Date: Subject/ Topic: Figures on a coordinate plane
Grade Level: 6th
Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills:
Area and perimeter of a triangle, square, rectangle, surface area, volume
Technology:
Ipads, Kahn Academy
Ppt Slide with instructions
Materials:
Surface Area Task Cards
Ipads
Numbered roster
Coordinate Planes
Online stopwatch
Development: [It may help to number your steps with corresponding times.]
Start with surface area task cards. Get them started with an example of one of the cards and then give
them 20/25 minutes to work on the cards on their own
Worldview Integration:
Who can give examples of when they see surface area in real life?
What about area and perimeter? (One example students gave regularly was construction. If they dont
come up with this on their own, guide them there.)
What about if we wanted to create a window and needed to find the 3 rd corner? Or just knew how much
space to fill up
Let students know this is similar to something they have done before in their integers unit. They found the
distance between two points on a coordinate plane and have created polygons on their HRP for homework
practice.
Give each student a number (put roster onto document camera) Their number is the iPad number they
should take.
Videos if needed! (If teacher has a chance to guide students before they begin videos, suggest the
following.)
Area of a parallelogram on a coordinate plane:
Stop at 1:10 what is the length of that parallelogram? How do we do that? We Just did it two
units ago!
Coorindates of a missing vertex:
Start at 1:14
Dimensions of a rectangle from coordinates:
0:00-0:19 you can skip. Start at 00:19
Closure:
What questions do you still have? Is that something you need more practice on? How do you feel?
TEACHER INTERN POST OBSERVATION REFLECTIONS-
Your reflection on the lesson including ideas for improvement for next time.
I was amazed with students as they worked with iPads today! Wow! They rocked it. I created a Ipads
with Kahn Academy slide that laid out some expectations for them. They followed instructions so well. I
heard someone say I didnt think wed ever use iPads in math! it made me wish I wouldve done
something like this sooner. Students didnt have much time to work on the iPads, I wish we wouldve had
more time.
The task cards were great for some students and I know very challenging for a few. Because its
something new, I think they have a hard times letting themselves struggle through it at times. Maybe in
the future I should put suggestions on the board: Something like Struggling? Check your notebook on pg
___, ____, ____. Count the faces. Think about how many pairs of faces the figure has. What do you do with
that? Pick out a different card and come back to this one later. Ask the teacher!
I would even think about not giving an example for certain groups of students in the future or releasing
them to go on their own and then giving an example for students who desire it. Having the ones that want
to have an example work in a small group together on one side of the room. I think just having them go off
on their own would give them a sense of power and give them a chance to own the concept. The practice
questions are pretty self-guided so I would like to take advantage of that. Especially with the videos, it is a
good activity for them to be able to work at their own pace.