Title: The
Coordinate System
Grade Level: Sixth and Seventh
Subjects: Math, Social Studies, and Technology
Learner Outcomes: 1.
Students will learn to identify the ordered pair of numbers associated
with
a point on a grid.
2. The students will properly use the Internet as a research tool
to obtain
information that they will plot.
Duration of Lesson: Three forty-five minute sessions
Materials: Graph paper, pencil, reference materials, transparencies of prepared coordinate grids
Technology: PowerPoint presentation,
projector device for PowerPoint, Computers, Internet
Service, overhead projector used to show transparencies.
Teacher Notes: Students need
to have a completed Acceptable Use Policy on file at the school
to enable them to use the Internet. Teachers will need to prepare
a transparency
with plotted data needed for discussion.
Procedures:
1. The PowerPoint slide show presentation
will be used as an introduction to the first
day’s lesson. Advance show with a mouse click.
2. Prepared transparency with particular places named and plotted
will be shown
and discussed.
3.
Prepared transparency (scroll down to the coordinate plane) with points
plotted
and identified as letters will be shown and discussed.
4. To connect the Math lesson with a Geography lesson, students will
use a
computer Internet service to locate the site of the Austin
Zoo.
5. Students will actually draw a graph on their graph paper
and plot the sites found
at the Austin zoo.
6. The second day the Math lesson will be connected with a
Social Studies lesson
The students will plot given points.
Successive points will be joined by line
segments. When the assignment is completed students will have a picture
of an
animal on the endangered species list. Solution
to graph.
Modifications: The students
that easily master the concepts being studied will be peer tutors for
the students that do have trouble mastering the concepts.
Enrichment Activities: The
third day of the lesson the students will be randomly paired. A
demonstration of the game, Catch Me will
be demonstrated. Each pair
of students will then play the game.
Evaluation: Students will
be expected to participate in the informative sessions involving the
transparencies. Graphs constructed by the students will be evaluated
for accuracy.
The students’ unit test will include this concept. Use this rubric
for evaluation of the lesson.
National
Standards: Technology Level 3 Grades 6-8
Connects via modem to other computer users via the internet, an on-line
service, or bulletin board system.
Mathematics Level 3 Grades 6-8
Represents problem situations in and translates among oral, written,
concrete, pictorial, an graphical forms.
Geography Level 3 Grades 6-8
. Understands concepts such as axis, major parallels, seasons, rotation,
revolution, and principal lines of latitude and longitude.
West
Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives:
Social Studies
6.22, 6.26, 6.58, 7.2
Mathematics
6.35, 6.4, 6.8, 7.1, 7.25, 7.27, 7.31, 7.8
Technology
6.83, 7.59, 7.61
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References: Pre-Algebra A
Transition to Algebra textbook; copyrighted
in 1992 by the
Glencoe Division of Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
Hands On Pre-Algebra published by Instructional Fair, Inc., Grand Rapids,
MI
Authors:
Becky
Aldridge
Karen
Allen
Natasha
Mucho
SS Peter
and Paul
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