Reviewer’s Name: Allie Gudonis, Christina Giambrone, and Michele Mullar
Date Due: February 9, 2012
Title of learning experience: Measuring to the nearest 1/4 inch
EDU 327: J. Arnold
Author of learning experience: Shannon Weber
Assignment 2: 10 pts
Warm Comments
1) Relation to Standards
 Lesson aligns very well to the
standards, the tasks are very
specific to measurements.
 The lesson models exactly what
the standard states. The students
are performing tasks that
involve them using the whole,
the half and the ¼ inch
measurements.
2) Intellectual Challenge
 Appendix D allows the
student to actually measure
objects. Some students may
find it harder to measure a
3D object rather than a one
dimensional object on a
worksheet. This allows the
student to think about each
unit of measure.
 The rubrics are great they
lay out expectations for
students they allow a lower
achieving student to succeed
and a higher level student to
also succeed.
3) Assessment Plan
Cool Comments
1) Relation to Standards
 According to the page 3
standard chart author does
not have students
performing tasks that
involve measuring yards,
whole centimeters and
whole meters.
 For the homework, though
the worksheet aligns to the
standard and measuring I
feel that students will have
learned better if they had to
find a certain number of
objects at their house for
each measurement.
2) Intellectual Challenge
 The rubrics are excellent for
grading a student’s work. If
a student does not know
how to read or navigate a
rubric they will not be able
to succeed on this lesson.
On page 39 is an example,
the student did not label
units like stated in the
rubric.
 To help a student who might
learn better with group
lessons offer more group
oriented activities, the
author mainly facilitated
individual tasks.
3) Assessment Plan
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The diagnostic portion of
this assessment plan is well
written and includes a preassessment to see what
students already know about
measurements.
The rubric for the
assessment was easy to
follow and student friendly.
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4) Engagement
 The anticipatory set states
the objective for the lesson
and asks an essential
question to guide the
student’s thinking.
 The website listed is an
interactive way to reinforce
measurement for students
that finish their work early
and allows them to continue
practicing measurement.
4) Engagement
 The author needs to include
more real world situations
throughout the lesson which
would help students to gain
a more concrete
understanding of
measurement.
 The independent practice
section needs to be more
descriptive and adapted to
the student’s individual
needs.
5) Adaptability
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On “Funbrain Measurement
Practice” could students
receive an explanation as to
why their answer is
incorrect?
The author did not explain
how the standards were
linked to the formative
assessment portion.
5) Adaptability
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Creative idea of having the students
come up to the overhead and model
how to find measurements on an
enlarged ruler.
Clever idea of having the students
and the teacher highlight the rulers
to help them learn where different
measurements are.
6) Technology Integration
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There are multiple whole group
instructional activities throughout
the lesson. Possibly try to
incorporate more individualized
instruction for students who may be
struggling.
 Maybe have students practice
measuring more classroom objects
as well. For example, the length of
their pencil or the length of a
notebook.
6) Technology Integration
I would try to find a way for the
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I like how the author allowed the
students a chance to practice finding
more difficult lengths on a ruler.
Nice way of monitoring each student’s
progress at various levels of difficulty
on Funbrain.
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students to look more closely at why
they might have missed a question on
Funbrain.
Also, I would try to find a way to make
the game more academically exciting
for students. For example, have
students set a personal goal for
themselves (how many they get correct)
and challenge them to achieve that
goal.
Note: Additional samples of learning experiences can be found on-line at:
http://daemen.edu/~jarnold/KWLE
http://daemen.edu/~jarnold/Ellen/home