Stephanie Running

Secondary Lesson Plan Template Topic of lesson: Box Plots Lesson 4 Length of class: 50 minutes Standard(s) to be addressed in this lesson: 7.SP.1. Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of the population. Enduring Understandings/Essential Questions targeted in this lesson: Statistics is the process of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data to make and evaluate inferences and predictions about our world How can we use statistics to study and analyze the world? Learning Objectives for this lesson (Written using verbs from Blooms Taxonomy): Students will be able to create and analyze box plots on the quiz with 90% accuracy. Instructional method(s) chosen in this lesson (and why): Lecture because this is a confusing and new topic for students with a lot of vocabulary so explaining to them is the best instructional method. Materials/Resources: -Note sheet -Pencil/paper -Quiz Lesson Sequence: (How will you organize your lesson?) 1. Warm up problems: Make a stem and leaf plot and find the median 2. We talked about how different representations are better than others, box plot is a great way to compare data sets to each other. Its also good for large data sets, whereas stem and leaf plots are not good for big sets. 3. Explain the 5 number summary: lower extreme, lower quartile, median, upper quartile, upper extreme Explain how to graph the box plot 4. With a given data set, we will make a box plot together. And then students will make one on their own 5. Then we will look at what box plots tell us and dont. We can know what the mean or mode is. We dont know what the data distribution is exactly. Have students analyze the box plots theyve made in class and discuss in their groups

what they come up with. 6. Students will take a short quiz that wont be graded. This will be over everything from the past few days. It will be used to group students in the lesson for tomorrow. Assessment of learning (How will I know if students achieved my learning objectives?) The quiz at the end will show me both if they can make box plots and analyze it and also how well they understand the rest of the statistics weve covered this week. Lesson Checklist Did I hook my students by getting them excited about the topic? Did I introduce my learning objectives to the students (even if I just posted them in the room)? Are my learning objectives aligned with my state standards? Did I choose an instructional strategy/activity appropriate to the purpose(s) of the lesson? Did I organize my lesson clearly? Did I account for any downtime and/or transitions? Did I model or provide guided practice (if necessary)? Did I scaffold student learning (if necessary)? Did I assess my students learning (formative or summative)? Did I successfully bring the lesson to a within the allotted time? Did I provide a bridge to the next lesson in my unit sequence? Did I provide anchor/enrichment activities for students who complete the lesson early (if necessary)? Did I differentiate for my individual students needs?

Warm up: Make a stem and leaf plot and find the median. 57, 49, 65, 67, 48, 59, 56, 57, 71 BOX PLOT: Good for large sets of data 5 number summary o Lower extreme: the smallest number in the data set o Lower quartile: the middle number of the smallest half of the data set o Median: the middle number

o Upper quartile: the middle number of the bigger half of the data set o Upper extreme: the biggest number in the data set

What do box plots tell us? What dont they tell us?