The sequence of lessons in this weebly will introduce the students to the mathematics content strand, Measurement and Geometry with the focus being: Comparing and estimating measuring length in a variety of ways.
Each lesson is planned for a 45minute lesson and has been timed through practice accordingly with the intention of lesson 4 to be taught as a double lesson due to its content and importance of measuring length.
CONTENT STRAND: Measurement and Geometry
YEAR LEVEL: Grade 4 (8-9 year olds)
ACARA CONTENT OUTCOME: Use scaled instruments to measure and compare lengths, masses, capacities and temperatures (ACMMG084).
GOAL: Reading and interpreting the graduated scales on a range of measuring instruments to the nearest graduation.
PROFICIENCY STRANDS:
* Understanding includes making connections between various units and methods of measurement, the difference between standard and non-standard units of measurement and the use of metric units of measurement.
* Fluency includes using scaled instruments to measure correctly, collecting and recording data and developing skills in using the appropriate procedures.
* Problem Solving includes estimating, comparing and measuring different lengths, the use of standard and non-standard units measurements and their appropriateness for measuring certain objects.
* Reasoning includes evaluating the appropriateness of different displays, creating estimations and reviewing variations in results and explains thinking.
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE: Students should be assessed on prior knowledge from year 3: Measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, mass and capacity (ACMMG061).
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the conclusion of the unit, students should be able to estimate, measure and compare lengths using metric units and scaled instruments using a variety of technology-based activities and practical activities. Please follow below additional information for each lesson:
LESSON 1:
ASSESSING STUDENTS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Students should use the mind map as a way of revisiting any prior knowledge they already know before carrying out an online quiz. This will allow the teacher to adapt lesson plans accordingly or address any special considerations such as learning needs students, language needs students or advanced students prior to the next lesson beginning.
LESSON 2:
ORDERING AND COMPARING LENGTHS AND HEIGHTS
This lesson is aimed at scaffolding for the next 3 lessons. It involves using an online based activity to compare and order lengths and heights of animals. It introduces standard and non-standard units of measurement to the students and gives them an opportunity to use their estimation skills also.
LESSON 3:
MEASURE USING NON-STANDARD (INFORMAL) UNITS
This was a hard lesson to find online so I produced my own exercise using a worksheet is to be completed on their computers where the students are still working in pairs. The aim of this lesson is to elaborate on from the use of non-standard units of measurement and show the students by using the cubes and paperclips activity that it is also a form of measuring length.
LESSON 4:
MEASURE USING STANDARD (FORMAL) UNITS
This lesson begins with an online activity using standard units of measurement and then moves on to a classroom "scavenger hunt" where the students are to use the worksheet to complete the activity. It is important to break the students up into groups with various learning levels so they can all help each other out.
LESSON 5:
MEASURING AND COMPARING HEIGHT ACTIVITY
This lesson opens with an online activity and then moves into an activity where the students have to work in groups to measure each others height. I have combined this activity with a lesson that would have been completed in science where the students are to lay on butchers paper and trace their outline. In science they would have filled their outline in with labelled body parts. For example: The brain, Rib Cage, Left arm, Right Arm. At the conclusion of the measuring heights activity the students were asked to order the class from shortest to tallest. Using the cut out bodies from the science lesson I am able to stick these up around the classroom from shortest to tallest. Incorporating a science and maths lesson in one.
LESSON 6:
EVALUATION AND FINAL QUIZ
This lesson gives the students an opportunity to re-visit what they have learnt in the previous five lessons using online activities before completing a final quiz so the teacher can assess where the student is at with the unit. The quiz was created using a website where all students results are individually recorded allowing the teacher to access their results online and evaluate their learning.
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
To assist with special considerations such as learning needs students, language needs students and students who need to be extended, a range of online activities to suit their levels can also be found via the same resources students will already be using. The lessons are able to be adapted to suit their level of learning for any students in the above category. For language needs students a set of activities will be created and adapted around their prior knowledge to better their learning while still being taught the same content. Language needs students will also need more one on one time and interaction to assist with the content. This may also include the use of more visuals rather than reading and adapted worksheets. For students who need more challenging activities, all online based work was set as easy, medium or hard with the majority of the activities/games set to medium. For these students they would simply need to do the hard activities as they would be more advanced than using the medium ones. Alternatively I have created a "Fast Learners" page where students are able to complete extension work and more challenging activities. I have also attached a maths dictionary for students to use not only in these lessons, but to use in future maths lessons also. This will also assist language and learning needs students.
MISCONCEPTIONS TO CONSIDER:
* Ensure the students don't get confused between metric units and the imperial system and when using the ruler they are using cm, not inches.
* When measuring with a ruler, the student may count the lines marked on the ruler rather than the spaces.
* Students may leave gaps between rulers when they measure so be careful to monitor this.
EVALUATION:
Students would have been evaluated on their learning throughout all 6 lessons. Worksheets are to be handed into the teacher at the end of each lesson to be evaluated and marked in order to gage where each student is up to in learning of this area. The final evaluation, a quiz, is a way in which the teacher can evaluate the students overall learning as an individual and address any major issues in the learning criteria for measuring length. Once again, a simpler quiz will be created for language needs students at the end of lesson 5 so the teacher can evaluate what they have learnt over the past 5 lessons before finally assessing them.
Each lesson is planned for a 45minute lesson and has been timed through practice accordingly with the intention of lesson 4 to be taught as a double lesson due to its content and importance of measuring length.
CONTENT STRAND: Measurement and Geometry
YEAR LEVEL: Grade 4 (8-9 year olds)
ACARA CONTENT OUTCOME: Use scaled instruments to measure and compare lengths, masses, capacities and temperatures (ACMMG084).
GOAL: Reading and interpreting the graduated scales on a range of measuring instruments to the nearest graduation.
PROFICIENCY STRANDS:
* Understanding includes making connections between various units and methods of measurement, the difference between standard and non-standard units of measurement and the use of metric units of measurement.
* Fluency includes using scaled instruments to measure correctly, collecting and recording data and developing skills in using the appropriate procedures.
* Problem Solving includes estimating, comparing and measuring different lengths, the use of standard and non-standard units measurements and their appropriateness for measuring certain objects.
* Reasoning includes evaluating the appropriateness of different displays, creating estimations and reviewing variations in results and explains thinking.
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE: Students should be assessed on prior knowledge from year 3: Measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, mass and capacity (ACMMG061).
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the conclusion of the unit, students should be able to estimate, measure and compare lengths using metric units and scaled instruments using a variety of technology-based activities and practical activities. Please follow below additional information for each lesson:
LESSON 1:
ASSESSING STUDENTS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Students should use the mind map as a way of revisiting any prior knowledge they already know before carrying out an online quiz. This will allow the teacher to adapt lesson plans accordingly or address any special considerations such as learning needs students, language needs students or advanced students prior to the next lesson beginning.
LESSON 2:
ORDERING AND COMPARING LENGTHS AND HEIGHTS
This lesson is aimed at scaffolding for the next 3 lessons. It involves using an online based activity to compare and order lengths and heights of animals. It introduces standard and non-standard units of measurement to the students and gives them an opportunity to use their estimation skills also.
LESSON 3:
MEASURE USING NON-STANDARD (INFORMAL) UNITS
This was a hard lesson to find online so I produced my own exercise using a worksheet is to be completed on their computers where the students are still working in pairs. The aim of this lesson is to elaborate on from the use of non-standard units of measurement and show the students by using the cubes and paperclips activity that it is also a form of measuring length.
LESSON 4:
MEASURE USING STANDARD (FORMAL) UNITS
This lesson begins with an online activity using standard units of measurement and then moves on to a classroom "scavenger hunt" where the students are to use the worksheet to complete the activity. It is important to break the students up into groups with various learning levels so they can all help each other out.
LESSON 5:
MEASURING AND COMPARING HEIGHT ACTIVITY
This lesson opens with an online activity and then moves into an activity where the students have to work in groups to measure each others height. I have combined this activity with a lesson that would have been completed in science where the students are to lay on butchers paper and trace their outline. In science they would have filled their outline in with labelled body parts. For example: The brain, Rib Cage, Left arm, Right Arm. At the conclusion of the measuring heights activity the students were asked to order the class from shortest to tallest. Using the cut out bodies from the science lesson I am able to stick these up around the classroom from shortest to tallest. Incorporating a science and maths lesson in one.
LESSON 6:
EVALUATION AND FINAL QUIZ
This lesson gives the students an opportunity to re-visit what they have learnt in the previous five lessons using online activities before completing a final quiz so the teacher can assess where the student is at with the unit. The quiz was created using a website where all students results are individually recorded allowing the teacher to access their results online and evaluate their learning.
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
To assist with special considerations such as learning needs students, language needs students and students who need to be extended, a range of online activities to suit their levels can also be found via the same resources students will already be using. The lessons are able to be adapted to suit their level of learning for any students in the above category. For language needs students a set of activities will be created and adapted around their prior knowledge to better their learning while still being taught the same content. Language needs students will also need more one on one time and interaction to assist with the content. This may also include the use of more visuals rather than reading and adapted worksheets. For students who need more challenging activities, all online based work was set as easy, medium or hard with the majority of the activities/games set to medium. For these students they would simply need to do the hard activities as they would be more advanced than using the medium ones. Alternatively I have created a "Fast Learners" page where students are able to complete extension work and more challenging activities. I have also attached a maths dictionary for students to use not only in these lessons, but to use in future maths lessons also. This will also assist language and learning needs students.
MISCONCEPTIONS TO CONSIDER:
* Ensure the students don't get confused between metric units and the imperial system and when using the ruler they are using cm, not inches.
* When measuring with a ruler, the student may count the lines marked on the ruler rather than the spaces.
* Students may leave gaps between rulers when they measure so be careful to monitor this.
EVALUATION:
Students would have been evaluated on their learning throughout all 6 lessons. Worksheets are to be handed into the teacher at the end of each lesson to be evaluated and marked in order to gage where each student is up to in learning of this area. The final evaluation, a quiz, is a way in which the teacher can evaluate the students overall learning as an individual and address any major issues in the learning criteria for measuring length. Once again, a simpler quiz will be created for language needs students at the end of lesson 5 so the teacher can evaluate what they have learnt over the past 5 lessons before finally assessing them.