Dan Carpenter

EDT 548

Lesson Plan Evaluation

Name of Lesson Plan: "What if There Were No Clocks?"

URL: http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/Crit.Think.Time.Lesson.html

Subject Area: Mathematics

Grade Level: 1^st-3^rd Grade

Lesson : “What if there were No Clocks”	Part of Lesson	Not part of Lesson
Subject: Mathematics
Clear Objectives	Yes
Clear Instructions	Yes
Developmentally Appropriate	Yes
Integrated Technology	Yes
Develops Problem Solving Skills	Yes
Interesting/Motivating	Yes
Student Centered	Yes
Cooperation/Collaboration	Yes

Summary: This lesson should work well if it is used as a opportunity for discussion before teaching the facts about knowing how to tell time. This will encourage student collaboration on the concepts of time. There is not a lot of preparation time required. The suggestions for extending this lesson would be to incorporate several subject areas besides Math.

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Lesson Title: Dinosaur Footprint Activity

Site Address: http://home.sprynet.com/~rlgreen/dino.htm

Grade Level: K-12

Subject Area: Science

Lesson: “Dinosaur Footprints”	Part of Lesson	Not part of Lesson
Subject: Science
Clear Objectives	Yes
Clear Instructions	Yes
Developmentally Appropriate	Yes
Integrated Technology	Yes
Develops Problem Solving Skills	Yes
Interesting/Motivating	Yes
Student Centered	Yes
Cooperation/Collaboration	Yes

Summary:

In this lesson plan, the class examines a set of dinosaur tracks found at a "construction site" (site created by teacher) and then come up with ideas as to which dinosaur made the tracks and what dinosaur behaviors might be revealed by the tracks. Students will have experience with collection and evaluation of field data. Students will have the opportunity to interact with each other as they compare and contrast the different conclusions they have come up with about the dinosaur prints.

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Name of Lesson Plan: "Three-Dimensional Shapes"

URL: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Mathematics/Geometry/GEO0007.html

Subject Area: Math / Geometry

Grade Level: 2^nd-5^th Grade

Lesson : “Three Dimensional Shapes”	Part of Lesson	Not part of Lesson
Subject: Math / Geometry
Clear Objectives	Yes
Clear Instructions	Yes
Developmentally Appropriate	Yes
Integrated Technology	Yes
Develops Problem Solving Skills	Yes
Interesting/Motivating	Yes
Student Centered	Yes
Cooperation/Collaboration	Yes

Summary:

In this the students learn about three-dimensional shapes as they design their house using 3-D shapes. This activity does not incorporate technology, but we should be able to find software that would allow the students to convert their ideas and use of geometric shapes into a house of their own creation.

Name of Lesson Plan: Alaskan Unit on Moose

Subject Area: Science

Grade Level: 3-6

URL: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0078.html

Lesson : “Alaskan Moose”	Part of Lesson	Not part of Lesson
Subject: Science
Clear Objectives	Yes
Clear Instructions	Yes
Developmentally Appropriate	Yes
Integrated Technology	Yes
Develops Problem Solving Skills	Yes
Interesting/Motivating	Yes
Student Centered	Yes
Cooperation/Collaboration	Yes

This is a great hands-on unit that will teach the students how people can depend on food sources that are native to their local area for survival. The unit helps students to understand ways in which we can help animal herds survive and how we are all dependent on one another for our survival.

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Name of Lesson Plan: Making a Cloud Jar

Subject Area: ScienceGrade Level: K-3

URL:http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/cloudjar.html

Lesson : “Making A Cloud Jar”	Part of Lesson	Not part of Lesson
Subject: Science
Clear Objectives	Yes
Clear Instructions	Yes
Developmentally Appropriate	Yes
Integrated Technology	Yes
Develops Problem Solving Skills	Yes
Interesting/Motivating	Yes
Student Centered	Yes
Cooperation/Collaboration	Yes

Summary:

A great hands on activity to do with your students that will help them learn how clouds are formed. The site has on-line links to cloud vocabulary words and also weather sites that the students can visit.

You can involve the students in a discussion about clouds and ask them to make predictions about what they think will happen when you do the experiment. After the activity is finished, the class can discuss their conclusions.