Technology Integration 101 – Example #2

Sample Lesson Plan Narrative: US and Metric Measures

The teacher who developed this lesson plan was responsible for teaching a sixth grade unit on converting measures from US to metric. He generally showed students the conversation formula, had them look at the markings on both a U.S. standard rules and a metric ruler, and complete a series of exercises converting numbers (whole number, fractions, decimals, etc.) to different units and standards of measures. These exercises were generally followed by a test.

He was not satisfied that the current lessons were very interesting or that the students were learning much. He decided that the lesson needed some enhancements.

Thinking about the lesson the teachers used the WELES reflection tool and lesson planner to revised the lesson. First he wrote the lesson objectives and standards. He then began to think about what he would like to do to make the lesson more exciting and motivating to the kids and to enhance the lesson. There was just a story on the news about how the Mars Landers crashed and that the reported reason was that scientists failed to convert to the same measurement standards. He thought that sharing this story with the students would catch their attention and then using measures of planets, distance between them, their sizes, etc. the kids would be more involved in the activities and perhaps learn the conversion processes more quickly.

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