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Sample Lesson Plan
Using Literature to Teach Elementary School Math and Science
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education
ED312, Spring 1996; Professor Maria Varelas
Lesson by Betty Psychogios
- second grade
- King's commissioners are a variety of people. This diversity is important, shows the students that there are many ways to count. There is just her dad, the King. Many kids live in single-parent homes or without any sibilings.
- place value, counting in different ways, also showing with money that you can have the same amount of money with various coins or dollars, and story problems.
- First I would start reading the book. I would not tell the children that we are going to work on counting. I would stop after page six and ask the students how they would count the commisiioners, the king"s way (which was one by one) or the Royal Advisor's way on large note pads, and I would ask them why. I would take a couple of students' comments and go on. Then I would stop on page eight and ask the students how many commissioners the First Royal Advisor had gotten. I would again stop and write it on the chalkboard, next to the First Royal Advisor tally. Then I would again stop at page 9 and ask the same question, how many commisiioners did the Second Royal Advisor get? And I would write it on the board. I would read page 10 and then ask the class, is the king letting the Royal Advisor's finish what they want to say? And then, I would go on. I would stop after page 11 and ask the students whyu it would help to put them )the Commissioners) in rows of ten? While I am reading page 12, I would be pointing to the rows of 10. On pages 14 and 15 I would pojnt to the numbers the princess is pointing at also in the gook, while she is explainging that there are different ways to count. I would finish reading the book and then ask the students who counted the right number of commissioners? I would then put the students together with a partner and write on the board the numbers 34, 52, and 67 ask them to write on their papers four different ways of counting those numbers. Then on the same piece of paper, I would tell them to answer the story problem I write on the board, which is, the King has 48 commisiioners in all. There are exactly the same number of girls and boys. How many girl commissioenrs are there? How many boys? Then at the bottom of their papers I want them to write what they learned. Then as a class we will answer the questions.
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