Tuesday, October 15, 2019

15-min micro teaching lesson plan


Subject: Workplace Math 11 
Topic: 3D objects
Duration: 15 min

Curricular Competencies:
  • Develop thinking strategies to solve puzzles and play games
  • Think creatively and with curiosity and wonder when exploring problems
  • Visualize to explore and illustrate mathematical concepts and relationships
  • Represent mathematical ideas in  concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms
Content Competencies:
3D objects: angles, views, and scale diagrams
  • creating and interpreting exploded diagrams and perspective diagrams
  • drawing and constructing 3D objects
Big Ideas:
  • 3D objects are often represented and described in 2D space
Materials:
  • 3 sheets of paper
  • pencils/erasers
  • White board/marker
  • Object for introduction
  • Object for drawing
  • Materials for building

Lesson Outline:
Introduction
Teacher-lead, group participation
  • What is a perspective drawing?
  • Why does perspective matter?
  • Do a drawing example with a side-distinctive object
2 min
Activity: Drawing
  • Split into 3 groups. Explain activity and introduce object.
  • Have 3 groups sit around the object, each group with a unique side.
  • Each group will draw the object from their perspective
  • Teachers to walk around, monitor, and assist if necessary
4 min
Activity: Building
  • Take the object away
  • Have the 3 groups rotate their drawings and attempt to build the object with the new drawing
  • Teachers to walk around, monitor, and assist if necessary
6 min
Conclusion
  • Bring object back out
  • Have groups share what their object looks like, see how different the 3 groups are
  • Wrap up: so why does perspective matter? Because look how different all these drawings look, even though they’re all the same object.
3 min

1 comment:

  1. Hi Danielle and Jongju. Thanks for the very interesting lesson plan and lesson idea! This is a good topic for your 15-minute time slot.

    I have a few suggestions that you may think about now or after our class today:
    (1) You talk about perspective, but your lesson is not really about perspective (2 point, 3 point, etc.) as it is classically taught in math class and art class. I think you're talking about point of view, not really classical perspective. You might think about wording it that way if this is helpful.
    (2) I suggest having three objects on three tables with one person (rather than one group) on each side, then trading the three drawings from each table to the next table. Perhaps that's what you planned all along...? If everyone is looking at the same object, it would be a bit too easy to reconstruct it, because they will all have actually seen it in 3D, at the time when they were drawing it from their particular point of view, don't you think?

    Looking forward to an interesting lesson!

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