TOPIC FOR THE LESSON:
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Unit:
Date:
Lesson Targets (information, skill, and social interaction targets):
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Language Targets:
Activities:
Initiation/Opening
Time
Teacher's Activities
Students Activities
Closure
Time
Time
Assessment Tools:
Pre-Planning:
Materials/Resources:
__ Camcorder
__DVD/Video stream
__Other (list items needed):
Instructional Strategies to be Used:
__Discovery Learning
__Cooperative Learning
__Discussion
__ Concept Formation
__Inquiry
__Other
Multiple Intelligences:
__Verbal/Linguistic
__Logical/Mathematical
__Naturalist
__Worksheets __ Computer Lab __Handouts
__Simulations
__Questioning
__Musical/Rhythmic
__ Intrapersonal
__Visual/Spatial
Reflections/Notes:
Completed template: “LESSON PLAN EXAMPLE”
__Debate
__Lecture
__Interpersonal
__Body/ Kinesthetic
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TOPIC FOR THE LESSON: Probability-Unit Introduction
Grade Level/Course: Grades 10-12/Trigonometry
Unit: Probability
Date: Day 1
Lesson Targets:
1) In groups of four, students will show their understanding of events and sample space
by listing all combinations of numbers that are possible when rolling two dice.
2) Students will demonstrate their understanding of “sample space,” and “events” by
successfully completing a discovery learning activity.
Language target: Students will be able to appropriately use academic language vocabulary during
class such as: probability, integer, concept, and exhaustive as observed by the teacher.
Activities:
Initiation/Opening
Start the class by shuffling a deck of cards.
Start talking about different cards, and in the middle “accidentally” scatter the cards
onto the floor. Ask students how likely it would if you closed your eyes and picked out
the 10 of hearts. Tell students that their answer requires thinking in terms of
“probablility.”
Teacher's Activities
Students Activities
Have a student privately select a card from Participate with answers and comments.
a complete deck, and have the class vote on
the color of the card (red or black). Repeat
with another student, but ask the class to
vote on the suit of the card.
Ask why color was easier than suit?
Time
4 Min
Time
5 Min
Lecture on EVENTS and SAMPLE
SPACE as they relate to probability
Write notes in math notebook:
Introduce group project and help students
begin.
Groups of three. Each group has two
dice. Write down all of the possible
outcomes when someone roles one die,
and when someone roles two dice. Share
result with the class.
Write on board the equation for counting
elements in a list:
n-m+1 (integers between n and m
inclusive. Explore examples.
Write equation in math notebook. Provide 5 Min
examples for the class to consider
together.
Small group discovery learning activity:
List of questions about probability that use
Students work in groups, answer
questions, and share with the class how
Sample Space is an exhaustive list of all the
possible outcomes of an experiment.
Any subset of the Sample Space is an Event.
10
Min
10
Min
10
min
the equation. Groups will try to come up
they came up with the correct answers.
with answers quickly and accurately, and
will apply the equation. Ask students to
share how they came up with the solution
for each question.
Closure
Time
Review the key concepts by asking questions of the students. Demonstrate the key ideas 6 min
by using coins (heads and tails). Assign homework that reinforces the introduction to
probability.
Assessment Tools:
1) Successful accomplishment of projects in group activities
2) Homework (to be assessed on Day 2)
Pre-Planning:
Materials/Resources:
__ Camcorder
__DVD/Streaming video X Worksheets __ Computer Lab __Handout
__OTHER:
-Deck of cards
-list of questions for group project
-homework assignment
-two coins
-10 pair of dice
Instructional Strategies to be Used:
X Discovery Learning
__Cooperative Learning
__Discussion
__ Concept Formation
__Inquiry
__Other
Multiple Intelligences:
X Verbal/Linguistic
X Logical/Mathematical
__Naturalist
Reflections/Notes:
__Simulations
X Questioning
__Musical/Rhythmic
__ Intrapersonal
X Visual/Spatial
__Debate
X Lecture
X Interpersonal
__Body/ Kinesthetic
__Notes