Amber Johnson

Launch

Content Standard Objective: Students will make a connection through finding the area of a triangle
using real- world scenarios by the given map and locations of important cities.

Practice Standard Objective: Students will create a model for area of a triangle through the provide
information from the teacher.

Central Focus:
The purpose of this lesson segment is applying the student’s prior knowledge of using find area of
different shapes. Students will learn the relationship between the formula for area of a rectangle can
derive the formula for area of a triangle in the context of a real-world problem. This lesson segment will
serve as a building block forth understanding for surface area and volume of different 3D shapes.

Script Statements:

● What is this on the map? (map will be projected on the screen)

○ Possible Student responses:
■ I don’t know
■ The Caribbean
■ The Bermuda triangle
● The Bermuda Triangle has a myth surround it, can anyone tell what that myth is?
● How big is the Bermuda triangle?
● Create an estimate that is too small, an estimate that is too large, and an best estimate you can
think of.
● How do you find the area of a triangle?
○ Possible Student responses:
■ I don’t know
■ Length times width like a square
■ Half the length times the width
● What do you need to know to find the area of the triangle?
○ Possible Student responses:
■ a Triangle
■ the distance between locations
■ the formula to find area

Summary of what I hope to achieve during the Launch and indicators that I have achieved success
with my Launch:

What I hope to achieve during the Launch of my lesson segment, is to have students start thinking about
what do they need to know to solve this problem and think of strategies to solve this problem. The
indicators that I have achieved this is by the students answers for the questions of “How do you find the
area of a triangle?” and “What do you need to know to find the area of the triangle?”