Karly's lesson plan

Target Audience of the Lesson:
This lesson plan is targeted for fourth graders.

Big Idea of the Lesson:
Learning the different classifications of triangles while using the white board.

Overall Goal for the Lesson:
The goal for this lesson is for the students to use technology such as white board, email, and Microsoft drawing program as an aid for learning the different classifications of triangles.

Indiana Content Standards Addressed: (Copy and paste entire standard from http://www.indianastandards.org/)
Geometry
Geometry involves relationships among shapes and their properties and offers ways to interpret our physical environment. Geometry allows the development of students’ reasoning skills.

ISTE CNETS Student Standards Addressed (Copy and paste from http://cnets.iste.org/students/)
• Technology productivity tools
• Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
• Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.

• Technology communications tools
• Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
• Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.


Schedule of activities:

For an interactive math lesson plan, have students use interactive white board again, but this time learning the different classifications of triangles. Have a triangle on the board that will stretch or shrink with a dragging arrow. Allow the students to make obtuse angles, acute angles, and different types of triangles such as scalene, equilateral, right, acute, and Isosceles. After the students have classified these, have them use tablets to email you their answers by drawing them in a microsoft drawing program on the computer. This will be done in groups of two or three.

Assesment:
To Asses the students, I will have a log sheet at the end of the lesson that will have each angle drawn on the paper. Students will have to label these triangles.

Adaptations:
To gear down the lesson plan, I will have this entire activity be a group activity, and I will take out the microsoft drawing. This can be a difficult concept.
To gear up the lesson plan, I will test the students through the microsoft drawing by having them draw and label these triangles by themselves.

Materials:
log sheet
whiteboard
email/microsoft drawing program