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This is Jeopardy! Trig Review
MEGAN HARRIS
Subject:
7
Date:
PRECALCULUS
February 22, 2012
Grade(s):
11
Rationale: In this lesson students will be working in teams to solve questions of varying difficulty related to the last 6 lessons in
trigonometry. This is the first of two review periods for their unit test.
Prescribed Learning Outcome(s):
B3: Solve problems, using the cosine law and sine law, including the ambiguous case.
Instructional Objective(s):
Students will be able to solve the angle and/or side in any given right or non-right triangle by answering the Jeopardy questions.
Students will be able to work in groups effectively and cooperatively.
Students will show their knowledge of trigonometry by correctly answering the “short answer” Jeopardy questions worth 10 or 20 points.
Prerequisite Concepts and Skills:
Knowledge of right angle trigonometry, the Sine Law, Cosine Law, ambiguous case in order to apply the processes for solving questions
of each case.
Trigonometry Calculator Skills
Team work skills!
Materials and Resources:
Teacher
Teams made up
Instruction document
Questions created for all categories (with answers)
Special helper determined
Jeopardy music file
Practice test created and printed-55
Students
Pencil
Calculator
Lesson Activities:
Teacher Activities
Student Activities
Time
Introduction (anticipatory set):
***have desks set up in groups
5 min
Agenda for the day, using four 4’s for the date
(4+4*4+√4)
Listen to instructions
Jeopardy music playing as students enter the class.
Go through instructions for Jeopardy
Post teams on the board
Get into their groups
Body:
Jeopardy game! Template from superteachertools.com
5 questions X 5 categories= 25 questions total
Work out the question in groups.
First group to raise their hands answers the question.
Team that got the last question correct chooses the next
question from the 5 categories.
5 bonus points awarded for explaining to the class (on
the whiteboard) how they answered the “long answer
30 min
– 1 hr
(not
questions”, which are the 30-50 point questions
Final Jeopardy round if time permits (each team has 3
minutes to complete the question and can wager up to
100 points)
Solve the final jeopardy question!
Should this not take as long as anticipated, students may
begin working on the practice test that we will go over in
detail tomorrow.
Begin practice test
sure
how
long
this
will
take!)
Closure:
Summary Questions:
Respond to questions
5 min
-when is your test?
-what should you be expecting to see on it?
Organizational and/or Behavioural Management Strategies:
-no headphones permitted, no talking while others are talking, no negative comments while others are answering/asking
questions or participating in examples
-address students at close proximity privately
Assessment and Evaluation:
-Formative:
-time required to answer questions: longer = probably don’t know this very well
-correct answers: will spend less time on these in the review tomorrow
-if no one can get it: will spend a lot of time on these questions in review tomorrow!
Sources:
Pre-Calculus 11, Mr. Pat Abra, ExamView Pro
Reflections (if necessary, continue on separate sheet):