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WRITTEN BY: Nicole
McAnnally,
NM4HIM@aol.com (Fall, 2001)
GRAPHICS, EDITING AND FORMATTING BY: Dr. Beth McCulloch Vinson
I.
PREPARING (to plan for instruction)
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MATERIALS:
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~ Children’s literature: My First Doctor’s Visit
by Julia Allen and Who Sank the Boat by Pamela Allen
~ “Box of Objects”- variety of objects of different sizes
and weights
~ Object that weighs exactly one pound
~ Analog and Digital scales
~ Worksheet from “Estimating and Measuring”; Grades 1-3;
School Zone Publishing Company; pp. 25 & 26
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OBJECTIVES: The students will:
1)
(Knowledge) Define the
word “pound.”
2)
(Comprehension) Estimate
and compare weights. ACS-Mathematics,
p. 25, number 38
3)
(Application) Classify
objects as weighing more or less than a pound.
ACS-Mathematics, p. 25, number 37
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GRADE LEVEL: Second
II.
ORIENTING (to establish purpose, build background, sustain
motivation, and provide directions)
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ANTICIPATORY SET: The
teacher will read the books My First Visit to the Doctor and Who
Sank the Boat. The teacher will
express to the students that they will be learning about another unit of
measuring weight called “pounds.” The
teacher will say, “This type of measurement can be used to determine the weight
of a variety of objects.”
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PURPOSE: The teacher
will say, “The purpose of this lesson is to teach you how to measure weight in
pounds. After today’s lesson, you will
be able to go to the grocery store with your parents and figure out how many
apples it takes to equal a pound by using the scale in the grocery store.”
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CONNECTION TO PREVIOUS LEARNING/ BUILD BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: The
teacher will say, “I know all of you can weigh objects in ounces. Today, we will learn how many ounces it takes
to equal one pound and how to weigh objects in pounds.”
III.
PRESENTING (to use sequential direct instruction)
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TEACHING PROCEDURES:
~ The teacher will define “pound.” The teacher will say, “A pound is a word we
use to tell how much something weighs.
The symbol for pound is lb. It
takes 16 ounces to equal one pound.”
~ The teacher will show pictures of various objects and tell how much they weigh. The teacher will show a picture of a baby and say, “My baby brother weighed 7 pounds when he was born.” Then the teacher will use more examples in this same manner.
~ The teacher will say, “There are 16 ounces in a
pound.” The teacher will show a picture
of an object that weighs one pound divided into 16 equal parts called ounces.
~ The teacher will
show two types of scales and go over the parts of the scales. The teacher will say, “There are two types of
scales that we are going to look at today.
The first type is an analog scale.
You would see this type at the grocery store. It has one hand, numbers that represent
pounds, and little lines between each number that represent the ounces. The second type is a digital scale. You probably have this type of scale at
home. It has a small screen where the
weight of an object will appear. It
shows the pounds before the decimal and the ounces after the decimal.”
~ The teacher will
pass around an object that weighs exactly one pound. The teacher will say, “This _______ weighs
exactly one pound. Feel how heavy or how
light it is to you. Remember what one
pound feels like.”
~ The teacher will
take objects of different weights out of the “box of objects” and show them to
the class one at a time. The teacher
will say, “Do you think this ________ weighs more or less than a pound?” The teacher will then let the students guess
if it is more or less than a pound. Then
the teacher will weigh the object to see if the class is correct.
~ Once all
of the objects have been weighed, the teacher will say, “Which object do you
think weighs the most? Which object do
you think weighs the least?”
~ The teacher will
explain what is weighed in pounds. The
teacher will say, “Anything that weighs less than one pound is weighed in
ounces. Anything that weighs more than
2,000 pound is weighed in tons.” The
teacher will then give examples of things that are weighed in ounces and things
that are weighed in tons.
IV.
PRACTICING AND SUMMARIZING (to reinforce and extend ideas)
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REVIEW:
~ (Knowledge) The teacher will call on volunteers to
recall the three types of measurement that were mentioned in the lesson.
~ (Application) The teacher will call on volunteers to
use the word “pound” in a sentence.
~ (Analysis) The teacher will call on volunteers to tell
the differences between an analog and a digital scale and where you might see
these types of scales.
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GUIDED PRACTICE:
~ The teacher will go around the room and one at a time
and let each student come up and pick an object out of the “box of objects” and
tell if it weighs more or less than a pound.
~ The teacher will then let the student weigh the object
and tell if he or she was correct.
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INDEPENDENT PRACTICE:
~ The teacher will pass out a worksheet entitled “Light
or Heavy?”
(“Estimating and measuring”; Grades 1-3; p. 25; School Zone Publishing
Company, 1999)
~ The teacher will read the instructions and have the
students complete the worksheet.
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SUMMARIZING:
~ The teacher will say, “Today, we learned what a
pound is, the two different types of scales, and how to determine the weight of
objects. Tonight for homework, I want
everyone to complete the backside of the worksheet that we did in class today. It is called, “Less or more than a
Pound?” If you have any questions, ask
your parents, and we will go over it tomorrow in class. So be sure to bring it back.” (“Estimating and measuring”; Grades 1-3; p.
26; School Zone Publishing Company, 1999)
V.
ASSESSMENT (to check for attainment of objectives)
The teacher will take up the worksheet with the class
work on the front and the homework on the back.
The teacher will grade these and call each student to his/her desk to
return them. When the child comes to get
his or her paper, the teacher will ask the child the definition of a
pound. Grades for the worksheet will be
put into the grade book and a plus or minus will be put in the grade book under
the heading “definition of a pound”.
For
enrichment, those students will be instructed to give the exact weight using
pounds and ounces to weigh and record a variety of objects from the “box of
objects”.
For
remediation, those students will use the digital scale to weigh objects and
slowly work up to the analog scale.
See the PowerPoint slide show entitled, “Capacity and
Volume” at:
http://www.athens.edu/pt3/vinson/capacity.ppt
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