Week 11 - Google Earth

Your name: Daniel Graham

Grade Level: 6^th Grade Geometry

Title of the lesson: Google Earth: Finding areas of your neighborhood

Length of the lesson: Two Class Periods

Central focus and central technology of the lesson Students will be able to use Google Earth to find geometric shapes, measure distances, and calculate areas of their shapes.

Knowledge and skills of students to inform teaching Students will be required to know basic skills using Google Earth.

Standards 6.G.1 Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems. 6.G.3 Draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices; use coordinates to find the length of a side joining points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate. Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

Support literacy Identify one language function: Categorize, compare/contrast. question, retell, summarize or another one appropriate for your learning segment) Identify a key learning task from your plans that provide students opportunities to practice using the language function. The students will compare/contrast different shapes made from their town to determine areas of those shapes. Describe language demands: The students will need to give written representations of their findings. Vocabulary General academic terms: analyze, categorize, compare/contrast, describe, explain Content specific vocabulary: Area, legs, sides, bases, heights, lengths, widths Discourse Text structure

Learning objectives The students will be able to measure distances using Google Earth. The students will be able to apply these distances to create polygons. The students will be able to apply their understanding of areas to find the areas of the polygons that they created.

Formal and informal assessment Formal assessment will be done by the students handing in their findings. The teacher will check measurements and formulas as well as correct answers. Informal assessment will be done by teacher observation. Students with IEP’s will be given guided examples, asked to find the distance of set points, then the formulas to plug in their work. ELL Students will have access to google translate to assist their understanding of the lesson.

Instructional procedure: First, the students will go onto google earth and find their house. Next, the students will find the distance from their house to the school. Then, the students will find a third location to create a triangle. They will be able to apply knowledge of bases and heights to find the area of the three vertices. Finally, the students will come up with their own “destinations” to create different polygons to find the area of.

Instructional resources and materials used to engage students in learning. Google Earth

Reflection Did your instruction support learning for the whole class and the students who need great support or challenge? Yes, instruction was designed to guide the students and then give them control. ELL students and IEP students were accounted for in the design of the lesson. What changes would you make to support better student learning of the central focus? Continued practice with finding areas of wholes and parts. Why do you think these changes would improve student learning? Support your explanation from evidence of research and/or theory. Students always need continued practice, at the sixth grade level, with multiplying wholes and parts.