Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Unit/Lesson Title
Lesson duration: 50
minutes
National Professional Standards for Teachers: Domain:
Standard:
Professional Practice
3.1
Class/Group:
Upper Primary
Prior Knowledge:
What a 2D Shape is
Syllabus
Indicator/s
Time
5min
3min
By the end of the
lesson the students
will understand
what a square
metre is and how to
calculate it.
15mi
n
5min
Syllabus Outcome/s
WMS2.3 Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and symbols to
represent, mathematical ideas.
MS2.2 Estimates, measures, compares and records the areas of
surfaces in
square centimetres and square metres
Resources: Quiz Boxes, SMART board, 1m ruler, newspaper,
masking tape
YouTube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFmtZwZuJ5o
Content/Learning Experiences
Teaching
Class
Assessment
Strategies
Organisation
Techniques
Introduction (Engagement)
Inform students that this Maths session will be
learning about Metre Square. But first we shall do
some Simple Maths warm up exercises.
Body
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFmtZwZuJ5o
Run a Quiz Boxes (Jeopardy) with questions that will
lead into square metres, several multiplication
questions.
Teacher
Explanation
Group Work
Sitting at desk
Group Work
Sitting at
several desks
Group
Discussion
Question the
students on
how to find the
area of various
shapes and
what it could
be useful for
when doing
various tasks
10mi
n
5min
8 Aboriginal ways of
learning
Reference:
http://8ways.wikispaces.co
m/
Intellectual Quality
Quality Learning Environment
Significance
Deep knowledge
Explicit quality criteria
knowledge
Deep understanding
Engagement
knowledge
Problematic knowledge
High expectations
integration
Higher-order thinking
Social support
Metalanguage
Students self-regulation
Connectedness
Substantiative communication
Student direction
Reflection: Should have opened with quiz box instead of teaching the concept then breaking then trying to return to it.
Understand the content difference between area and perimeter
Provide students with the opportunity to fail
Background
Cultural
Knowledge
Inclusivity
Narrative