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=Content=

Hopefully this doesn't happen to any of us:

=Curriculum Documents:=



=**Grade 7** =

**Data Management**
Here are some lessons I taught while on my first placement - I only posted a few lesson plans, but have them to go along with all of the other topics.

**How to make a pie chart**


Some strategies I used here include integrating the smartboard technology, by using the built in compass, protractor and ruler tools to build a pie chart step by step with the students I was able to keep them really engaged!

**Plotting multiple sets of Data on one graph**


In this lesson I used a quick minds-on strategy where I had 2 graphs and had the students try to come up with good ways to compare them, then intruduced the concept of plotting multiple data sets on one graph.

Misleading Data


In this lesson I was able to improve vastly on the results of my minds-on activity. The first time I presented it as a simple situation (you have a million dollars, invest in A or B?), subsequent times I added background info (Guess what guys, I won the lotto last night, big time! Since I like you all so much, I'll give you each a million dollars, on one condition, invest it in A or B.) - this really got them hooked, added enthusiasm, humour and all that really helped!

Unit Review
This lesson was fun - review the basics, then spend some time on whatever the class feels they need clarification on.

Unit Test
Writing my first Unit test - Some lessons were learned. I made it much too big. I made the last question too hard. I'm too easy of a marker as well. In one question I had them find the median of an even number of results. A good chunk of the students "forgot" one term for this question. I only penalized them very lightly, my AT said he would have assumed they dropped the term on purpose because they didn't know how to handle that situation.

Area and Perimeter of squares and Rectangles
The next few lessons were lots of fun since they progressed so naturally and built on the previous one each time. This first one should have been review. I was surprized here how many of the students don't bother to think about what they're doing. They tried to just remember the formula and apply it. These are pretty simple equations, there's no need to memorize, just think about it!

Area and Perimeter of parallelograms
We also did quizzes along the way on a daily basis starting at this point en lieu of a mid-unit test. More lessons to be learned! instructions must be specific to the point of absurdity at this level. Still managed to make them too long as well. I wanted them to calculate the area and perimeter of one square, 2 rectangles. the next class was able to just pick one - the other 2 were challenge questions. The lesson itself I thought went well, until the quiz the next day. A good chunk of the students couldn't distinguish between Length, Width, Base and Height. from this point I asked them to clearly label on the shapes where they were pulling their variables from.

Area and perimeter of Triangles
This was a good lesson, able to use the smartboard to my advantage, cloning, flipping and appending the triangles in various ways right before their eyes. The quiz results were good on this one too, they had learned to include all the information I needed. at this point they all knew the difference between cm and cm^2, or at least got it right on the quiz.

Area and perimeter of Trapezoids


This was another lesson that I was observed while teaching. It went quite well, we saved the quiz for the end of the lesson this time, although the lesson included a review of all previously covered shapes. Although a piece of paper may seem cheap on the manipulative scale, it worked well, they all cut it up, came up with some good solutions. Again, the smart board was a good way to review and eventually develop a formula.

The rest of my lessons taught on placement were Language ones.

Sample Lessons -> some more great lessons to check out!

=High School=

Sample Lessons -> we have a really good start here, I won't recopy it all out.

My second placement will be teaching Computer Science, so I won't be able to test any of them out :( (although I am super pumped about teaching computer science)