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Planning and implementing a new inquiry unit (D7.5)
Brief description of selected units designed by the participants
Note: Units for which a final report has been included
in these materials have been identified with an asterisk.
Elementary pre-service teachers:
- *The Mathematics of the Solar System by Kara Jackson
-- This interdisciplinary unit was developed in a fifth grade class.
Developed in the context of a science unit on the Solar System, this unit
capitalizes on the many opportunities this context offers for developing
measurement and number sense.
- *"How much does it cost to have a middle-size dog?"
by Jonathan Zukosky -- Series of innovative lessons developed
around this real-life open-ended question for fifth grade students.
- Quilts and quilting -- An interdisciplinary unit
for first grade students that builds on several children books on quilts,
and develops interesting geometric activities connected with making quilts.
Secondary math pre-service teachers:
- Making predictions: A Unit Exploration on Probability
& Statistical Analysis by Lina Maine -- A very well
developed 4-week long unit on probability and statistics for 8th grade
students, building on meaningful contexts such as the Backgammon game and
real-life problems requiring predictions and/or making sense of statistical
data.
- Discovering Ratios, Proportions and Percents -- A three
week unit designed to introduce basic concepts about ratios, proportions
and percent using the context of reproducing life-size replicas for dolls.
The unit was designed for 7th grade students.
- Strange Maps by Steven Worboys -- This unit was
designed for high school students, and implemented in the context of an
unusual geometry course on "Maps" offered at an alternative urban
school. It built on the inquiry about maps that this same student had developed
as one of the major projects in the Methods course (see Section D7.2 for
a report of that inquiry experience).
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