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Lesson Plan Learning Lab UnitLesson Plan 1

Lesson Title: Weekly Rock Star Reading Activity (2nd Hour Tuesdays)
== Brief Lesson Description: Students will read a short passage and answer 4 questions related to the passage. They will have about 5 minutes to complete. Each reading will have questions that require them to make inferences or take from context and imply the meaning of…. ==

STANDARD 2.1 Develop critical reading, listening, and viewing strategies
== STANDARD 3.1 Develop the skills of close and contextual literary reading. Analyze text structure and features) to make conscious choices about how to approach the reading based on purpose, genre, level of difficulty, text demands, and features. ==

CE 2.1.2 Make supported inferences and draw conclusions based on informational and multimedia features
== (//e.g.,// prefaces, appendices, marginal notes, illustrations, charts, bibliographies, captions, and visual and aural special effects, author’s pages, footnotes, diagrams, tables, charts, maps, timelines, graphs) and explain how authors and speakers use them to enhance understanding, convey meaning, and inspire audiences. == == CE 2.1.3 Understand unfamiliar words, specialized vocabulary, ﬁgurative language, idiomatic expressions, and technical meanings of terms through context clues, word roots and afﬁxes, and the use of resource materials such as print and electronic dictionaries. ==

4. Provide correct answers with explanation and explanation of all other choices as wrong answers.
= Technology Resources Needed (hardware & software) = None ~ Announcement is given with music to start the lesson. Teachers are given student handouts and answer key sent by E-Mail attachments to use for this lesson.

Summative assessment by number correct on sheet.
Lesson Plan 2

Lesson Title: Math Madness ( Friday’s 2nd Hour)
== Brief Lesson Description: Give students a handout with a fraction story problem every Friday that requires them to figure out the operation needed to solve the problem. They have to know how to set the problem up and solve it. Pass the handout during announcements. The story problem is read and they have a few minutes to complete the problem. When they are finished the teacher will go over how to solve the problem so they can see if they completed the problem correctly and how to solve it if they didn’t get it right. ==

3. Modeling how to solve the problem correctly and provide explanation on how to solve problem.
= Technology Resources Needed (hardware & software) = None ~ Teacher directions and student handouts are given to all teachers via e-mail attachments from the Math department.

Lesson Plan 3

Lesson Title: Learning Styles
== Brief Lesson Description: Students will learn about the three types of learning styles and how this will help them understand how they learn best. Students will take a learning style survey to see what their learning style is. This lesson covers chapter 2 of the How to Study booklet. A PowerPoint presentation – lecture will be given to discuss the different styles of learning. Students will read a 2nd handout and take a left/right brain survey. This handout also offers tips on how to study according to how they did on the survey. Student will take some online quizzes to compare their results to the previous paper copy survey. ==

4. Formative assessment charts to determine if they know types of learning styles.
= Technology Resources Needed (hardware & software) = Computer assess with Internet connection Links to learning style sites. See class Netvibe site : [|http://www.netvibes.com/studystack#How_To_Study_PPT]