Planned Lesson Activities

 

PLANNED LESSON ACTIVITIES

In this blog I will provide three separate planned activities for students that relate to teaching measurement. For variety, I will provide an activity for Primary, Middle, and Senior Secondary schooling, following the progression of the development of measurement throughout history as discussed in previous blog posts.

 

Primary / Early learning – Year 3 – Measuring Jumping! – MAST pedagogy

Australian Curriculum – Content Descriptor:

•         Measurement and Geometry - Measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, mass and capacity (ACMMG061)
•        Recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction (ACMNA054)

Learning intention:

Develop skills in measuring in meters and centimetres. Developing numeracy skills.

Summary of lessons:

Teacher is to teach Mathematics as Storytelling for these lessons to make them engaging for all students. Students are to learn how to measure how far they can jump using a measuring tape, and then compare it against their peers – Teacher is then to input the data into a table. They will then learn about how far different animals can jump, and see how many of their friends jumps they would need to add together to be able to jump as far as the different animals.

 

Middle School – Year 8   - Creating Sundials - MAST / Modelling

Australian Curriculum – Content Descriptor:

•         Solve problems involving duration, including using 12- and 24-hour time within a single time zone (ACMMG199)

Learning intention:

Develop a deeper understanding of 12 and 24-hour time, and develop skills in measuring time.

Summary of lessons:

Teacher to teach Mathematics as Storytelling, but getting students to complete an investigation where they build their own sundials. They then use these sundials to track the time, and make note of what time is shown on the dial at different points throughout the day. For instance, at breakfast, lunch, afternoon, etc. They are then to complete a report with diagrams showing how this works for 24-hour time, and how it would vary throughout different seasons of the year. They are also to brainstorm ideas for ways to measure time while the sun is down and include it in their report.

 

Senior School – Stage 1/2 Essential Mathematics – Nurse formula/tables – Mathematical Modelling

Australian Curriculum – Content Descriptors:

·         use metric units of length, their abbreviations, conversions between them, and appropriate levels of accuracy and choice of units (ACMEM017)
·         estimate lengths (ACMEM018)
·         convert between metric units of length and other length units (ACMEM019)
·         use metric units of mass, their abbreviations, conversions between them, and appropriate choices of units (ACMEM025)
·         estimate the mass of different objects. (ACMEM026)
·         understand the relationship between volume and capacity (ACMEM028)
·         substitute given values for the other pronumerals in a mathematical formula to find the value of the subject of the formula. (ACMEM036)
·         draw graphs from given data to represent practical situations (ACMEM125)

Learning intention:

Develop skills in the measurement of metric units of length and mass, conversion of units of length and mass, use of algebra, and data collection.

Summary of lessons:

Students are to be provided with a real-life scenario where a nurse has to calculate the amount of medication to provide a newborn baby based on its weight and then adjust the medication daily given an expected growth rate of 2.5% per day. Teacher is to provide a number of different babies with varying weights and sizes. Students are to work out the expected medication schedule for the first 14 days and input this data into a table. Students are to write a written report analysing the relationship between length, weight, and administration, and the importance of accurate data.

The final blog will be a reflection of this task and what I have learnt.