Weather_Math_Lesson_Plan

Name: Natalie Baggesen

Lesson Plan Title/Topic: Graphing Precipitation

Grade: 3 || * What is the ending snowfall after 35 hours of snowfall with an average snowfall of 4 inches an hour? || || * Students will use line plots to analyze data about weather. || || * Students will be graded based on their accuracy of correct answer, strategy used and clarity of explanation of essential question. || || * ** M(DSP)–3–1 ** Interprets a given representation **(line plots, tally charts, tables, or __bar graphs__) to answer questions related to the data, to analyze the data to formulate conclusions, or to __make predictions__** || || * Students will be able to solve this answer using a variety of ways of their choice. They may use manipulatives, draw a picture, talk it out or write it out. This allows for the method that is easiest for the child to be used by them to solve the problem. || · 1’s, 5’s, 10’s, 100’s blocks ||  · “In the year of 1978 Rhode Island, as well as the other New England states dealt with a destructive blizzard. From February 3rd to the 7th the snowfall rate averages 4 inches an hour. The storm lasted for 36 hours. Your job is to calculate the total snow fall using a line plot.”
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 * ** Opportunities to Learn **
 * Even though this is an independent activity, the students sit in groups in or to discuss, ask for help or provide help to those in their group.
 * Each student will be provided with their own line graph and all the class manipulatives are available to students as the wish.
 * ** Materials ** || · Line plot graph
 * ** Instructional Procedures ** |||| // What activities will you and your students do and how are they connected to the objectives? // ||
 * // What will you be doing? // || // What will the students be doing? // ||
 * ** OPENING ****// about //** 5**//_minutes//**

** ENGAGEMENT ****// about //** 15**//_minutes//** · Suggest students to use manipulatives. · “What other methods have we used before to solve problems similar to this?”

** CLOSURE ****// about _ //** 10**//_minutes//** · Guide class discussion.

|| ·  Students will be at their seats listening to directions.

· Students will be given a line plot showing the snow fall over a period of time. · Students must predict what the total snowfall will be after 36 hours. · Students must read graph to show the total snow fall at 2hrs, 5hrs, 10hrs, 20hrs, and 30hrs.

· Students will report out answers and discuss as a class to create one inclusive answer. · Students will also discuss their methods of arriving to their answer. || <<Back to EDC 452 home page << Section 2 <<Group 2 <<Math