CDP Lesson on the Galapagos Islands

Mathematical Ocean #3

Age Level: Middle School

Time: 1 Hour

Content Area: Math, Language Arts

Concepts: Graphing, Conversions of metric and standard, averaging, fractions, Compare and contrast, Venn diagrams, the ability to write a story problem, Basic Algebra

Objective: This lesson was created to help introduce students to basic algebra, and to recap the different types of math activities that the class has been performing for the past week.

Procedure: From the information that the students have gathered pertaining to their animals, have each student create a word problem using information that they have gathered. Each word problem should be in an algebraic form. After each student has made a problem (including a correct answer), each students problems will be collected and put together to form a quiz to be administered to the students. This part of the lesson will be assessed on how well each student performs on the quiz. Levels of competence can be determined by the instructor for each class due to the varying amount of difficulty of questions that the students can ask.

Assessment:

• Assessment for this part of the lesson will be from the end result graphs that the students hand in, along with the quiz results
  
  
• Students will be assessed by using the observation rubric, along with the Mathematical rubric. To be successful, students must achieve a 5 on the Observation rubric and at least improvements in 4 areas of the Mathematical Rubric.