Lesson
Materials (word document)
Materials
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Poster paper
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Ruler or meter stick
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Assignment Sheet
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Pencil, markers
Lesson Length
One class period
NYS Math
Standards
7.A.7 Draw the graphic representation of a pattern from an equation or from
a table of data
7.R.2 Explain, describe, and defend mathematical
ideas using representations
7.R.3 Recognize, compare, and use an array of representational
forms
7.R.4 Explain how different representations express
the same relationship
7.CN.4 Model situations mathematically, using representations
conclusions and formulate new situations
Instructions
for students
Using the critical
incidents listed on the next page, create a timeline that represents
the if “story" of the CFE campaign. First sort the events
in order from least to most recent. Then think about a scale to use
on a timeline so that:
- The events
are spaced out according the length of time between them
- You can fit
the entire timeline on one piece of poster paper
- The timeline
would tell the story of the CFE campaign to someone who did not
know much about it
Then, with your
group, talk about and then write about the questions attached. Be
prepared to talk about your ideas with the entire class.
Modifications
Some students
may want to cut out the events as strips and physically re order them
in chronological order. Other students will want to use the event
strips and tape them directly onto a timeline, instead of summarizing
the events by hand.
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Subject
Areas:
Math
Grade Levels: 6-8
About
the teacher:
Kara
Imm is a native of Minneapolis, MN where she attended Minneapolis
Public schools and earned an International Baccalaureate Diploma.
She studied American Studies at Stanford University in Palo Alto,
CA and worked for several years with Partners in School Innovation
(a San Francisco Bay Area non-profit and AmeriCorps program committed
to school reform in low-income communities).
She
relocated to New York to study at Bank Street College, earning a Masters
Degree in Education, with a focus on Early Adolescence. After serving
as a middle school teacher and Math Teacher Leader in District 2 for
several years, Kara was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Award, a fully
paid travel and study grant offered each year to a select group of
American educators. In October 2003 while in Tokyo and Nago, Okinawa,
she deepened her knowledge of, and interest in, Japanese Lesson Study
as a vehicle for transforming teaching practice.
Kara
serves as an adjunct Professor at Pace University, where she teaches
graduate courses to NYC Teaching Fellows. Kara also teaches math workshops
to K-12 educators around the city, through her work and affiliation
with the Math in the City project at City College.
karaimm@aol.com
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