Lesson Preparation Teacher Candidate: Amber Chesney Title of Lesson: Lego Graphing Grade Level: 7 & 8 Subject Area:

Math Lesson Topic: Graphing What standard(s) and/or IEP goal(s) will it address? Colorado Academic Standards (2010) Grade Level Expectation: Seventh Grade Content Area: Mathematics Content area: 7th grade Mathematics Standard 3: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability 1. Statistics can be used to gain information about populations by examining samples Extended Evidence Outcomes: a. Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population iii. Use data from a random sample to draw inferences about a population with an unknown characteristic of interest. Main Objective of Instruction (What do you want the student(s) to learn?) Students will learn how to plot and interpret information on a bar graph. Their understanding of these concepts will be measured by their successful presentations of their graphs to the class. Supporting Objectives: Students will complete graphs using bags of Legos. Their graphs will be completed neatly and handwriting will be legible. This will be measured visually and by their ability to interpret the information and present it to their peers. Specific Strategies to be taught/modeled Students will be taught how to collect data and represent it by producing a bar graph. Planning for individual differences (mediated scaffolding): What are the accommodations/modifications you need to prepare? Some students may require additional support in order to complete tasks. If necessary, I will have students work in pairs to help each other complete their graphs. High school peers may also be available to assist students as well. If that is the case, I will have the peers pair up with students to help them.

What background knowledge do the students have? How will you assess students learning pre, during, and post? Last week, students did a graphing lesson about animals. Prior to the lesson, I will remind them of that previous lesson. During the lesson, I will ask for student input on how to fill in the information on the graph. After the lesson, I will assess the students learning by how well they are able to explain their graphs when they present them to the class. What management/grouping issues do you need to consider? This lesson will be taught to a group of four students. All of them are on about the same skill level, so they will make good partners with each other, if I need to implement that. This group does not have any significant behavioral problems and they work well together. Materials and resources Bags of assorted Legos of various colors, graph, question sheet, pencils How/where will students be able to integrate (generalize) this learning? Relevance and application Students can use the knowledge of how to collect data and represent it graphically, as well as how to interpret this kind of a graph, in many other academic areas. These skills will be particularly useful in math, science, and social studies. The information that students learn in this lesson can be used in any situation where they need to represent their data in different ways or when they need to interpret a completed graph. How will you evaluate the lesson (judicious review)? Inquiry questions Students will present their graph to the class. I will ask each student questions about their graph such as how many Legos did they have all together and which colors did they have the most and least of.

Lesson Title: Lego Graphing

Main objective of this lesson: Students will gather information about the Legos they have in their bags and then represent their findings in a graphical representation. (CONTENT-PROCESS) Opening: (set how will you get the student(s) attention?) Relate lesson to prior learning Students recently did another graphing activity about animals and they have also used Legos for math before by counting and dividing the dots on them. I will remind them of that and then explain that we will be using Legos to do another graphing lesson, and then at the end of the lesson, they will explain their graphs to the class and we can compare data. Communicate the objective of the lesson The objective of this lesson is for students to be able to take a bag of Legos of varying colors and graph information about the numbers of each color they have. Then students will interpret their data to determine which color they have the most and least of.

Procedure: (is this an informal presentation, direct instruction, or structured discovery?) This is a direct instruction lesson. Strategies (I do) First I will model what they need to do by using Legos out of my own bag and graphing what I have on the graph paper. Check for understanding what will you ask As I count my Legos, I will ask students how many boxes they think I should color on the graph. When all of my Legos are graphed, I will ask students to tell me how many of each color I had. Differentiation: I plan on teaching this lesson with only the four selected students in the room in order to minimize distractions. If this is not possible, I will move partitions in the room in order to block the activities of the other students who may be in there. (PRODUCT) Guided practice (We do): Because students have already done a graphing activity, I will ask them what I should do to my graph when I count my Legos of the same color.

Closure: Student(s) summarize, demonstrate learning of lesson Independent Practice (You do) Formally end the lesson. When students are finished, I will have them come up to the front of the class and share their graphs. They will tell the class which colors of Legos they had the most and least of and how many Legos they had in total.