| Lesson Plans
Chicago Public Schools
This is a structured lesson plan that provides strategies for teaching,
examples, worksheets, and assessments. Instruction on the TI-82/83 is
provided, but the use of calculators is not essential. (Day 70-71)
Chameleon
Graphing
This is an
online tutorial with a cartoon lizard to guide students through the
vocabulary.
Graphing
and the Coordinate Plane
This
lesson is designed to introduce students to graphing ordered pairs of
numbers on the coordinate plane.
Tips for Teaching Cartesian Graphing
This is a "tips for teachers" article
that gives several approaches to graphing. It includes pictures and
demonstrations. It is published by NCTM and is research-based
Graphing Linear
Inequalities
This is an
online tutorial that guides students through graphing the solutions to
linear inequalities. It extends to quadratic inequalities.
Chicago Public Schools
Graphing linear inequalities in 2 variables. This lesson is complete
with calculator instructions and worksheets. Activities and assessments
are included (Day 95-96).
Discovering the Linear Relationship between Celsius and
Fahrenheit
This
lesson is based on real-world data from the SR-71 Blackbird, a famous
spy plane. It also relates Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scales.
Students may use the TI-83.
Battery Life on NASA Vehicles
This lesson shows the linear model for battery depletion. It is a piecewise
linear model graphing power usage by a remote controlled airplane. (A
little advanced, but perfectly usable)
Plugging into the Best Price
Students will use a graphing calculator and
the instructional activity sheets to explore the parameters of a linear
function and the significance of the slope and y-intercept. This
knowledge will be used to interpret a linear relationship between the
cost and time of performing a job.
Squares in the Light
This lesson is designed for students to investigate the relationship
between the length of the side of a square and its distance from the
light source. A 2 cm square is cut from a 3" by 5" card and placed on an
overhead projector. The students will then measure the side of the
square projected on the overhead screen and the distance from the screen
to the projector. This data will be tabulated, graphed, and analyzed.
Hit Me If You Can!
This lesson is designed to
help students learn to use the CBL and the motion detector. Using the
CBL, TI-82 and motion detector, students will see that the speed and
direction of their own body over time creates a different slope line.
This can lead to discussions of linear equations, specifically positive,
negative, and zero slopes. After this lesson, students should have a
better idea of slope and y-intercept.
Bottles and Divers
Students calculate the rate of change between two points on a curve by
determining the slope of the line joining those two points. They then
extend this method to estimate the instantaneous rate of change at a
given point by taking two points very close to and on either side of the
given point.
Graphs and Functions
In this lesson, students learn the relationships between functions and
graphs. Prerequisite skills include knowledge of the Cartesian
coordinate plane.
Chicago Public Schools
This is a structured lesson plan that provides strategies for teaching,
examples, worksheets, and assessments. Instruction on the TI-82/83 is
provided, but the use of calculators is not essential. (Day 71-72)
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Language Arts