Title: Making Money From Lemons Contributor: Katelyn Cohen Subject Matter: Mathematics, business, economics, marketing Grade Level: 7-9th grade Description:This is a two week long activity, in which students will learn about mathematics, business, marketing and economics by starting their own lemonade business. Students will get into groups and make decisions about materials, costs, and how to make lemonade. Students will run their own lemonade stand, record data, and analyze how much money they made or lost. Students will use a program on internet explorer and go to the sitehttp://www.coolmath-games.com/lemonade/. This program is a mock of what the students will actually be doing with their peers. Students will record data from this site for several days to see if they make a profit with their lemonade stand. At the end of the project students will write a reflection paper regarding their experiment. Computer Environment/ Resources: Microsoft Excel and Internet Explorer
Title: Statistics in the Real World Contributor: Alex Srnovrsnik Subject Matter: Statistics Grade Level: 9-12 Description: In this lesson, students will be placed in groups of four and are given a subject in relation to stats. They are to work together and create a problem that relates to the subject, that they can solve. After creating the problem and solving it on paper, the students would make their problem into a Powerpoint presentation. They will then present their problem to the class. The groups are instructed to use graphs, pie charts, notes, etc. on each slide to help classmates better understand the problem and make it easier for the students to find a solution to the problem. After the class has been given enough time to attempt the problem, the group presenting will show the students that attempted the problem the correct solution. If the group presenting makes a very good powerpoint presentation that assists students to help solve the problem, the goal of this lesson is accomplished and along with this, the group presenting should have a better understanding as well. This is more of a constructivist lesson plan. Computer Environment/ Resources: This lesson described would require a classroom with enough computers to accomodate groups of four students, such as a computer lab or library. The computers will need at bare minimum, internet access, Microsoft Office, and Internet Explorer. The teacher will need an LCD projector and screen for students to present their Powerpoint show.
Title: Learning How to Solve an Equation with a Graphing Calculator Contributor: Devin Sullivan Subject Matter: Math Content using a Graphing Calculator Grade Level: 8-12 Description: This website has a lesson plan that shows students how to use the different features on their graphing calculators. Students have trouble using the different programs on their calculators when given a math problem. This lesson will assist the students in a math problem using their graphing calculators. The teacher will project what she/he is doing on the graphing calculator by having the graphing calculator connected to the computer so it can be seen by the class. Computer Environment/ Resources: This lesson would require a classroom full of graphing calculators. The teacher will need to have a graphing calculator that connects to a computer that can be projected to the whole class.
Title: My Dream Room Contributor: Lonni Wiselogel Subject Matter: Math Grade Level: 7-8 Description: Students will be given several old catalogs and a $2,500 budget to decorate their dream bedroom and will keep track of their expenditures with a spreadsheet in Excel. They will have to enter in the information and prices of everything that they "purchase" from old catalogs into different categories and total them all to make sure that they stay within their budget. They will be graded on their application of their knowledge in using spreadsheets and following the directions given. Computer Environment/ Resources: This lesson requires a computer lab with enough computers for each students that have Excel spreadsheet software. You will also need instruction sheets and enough catalogs for all the students.
Title: Educational Uses of Second Life Contributor: Jon McClelland Subject Matter: Any that a teacher is willing to try Grade Level: 6-12 Description: This website shows the educational uses of Second Life, including distance learning. It could really be used for any subject matter but I put it in the Math 7-12 category because I feel that teaching Math or similar subject through Second Life would be more successful than some other subjects. Also, I think Second Life would be easier to operate for students of an old age and grade level. Basically, the website talks about how there are many educational advantages involved with using Second Life to teach. One example mentioned is how Ball State University has actually had some success with teaching its ENG104 class online through Second Life. The class was a basic level course focusing mainly on the research aspects of written assignments. The class was a hybrid having half of the class taught through Second Life. Visitors could even sit in on the online class. There are many other examples mentioned on the website and how to use each of them. Computer Environment/ Resources: Teaching with Second Life requires students and teachers to have a computer with internet access and Second Life software installed, which can be downloaded for free from their website. Also, computers used to operate Second Life need a high end graphics card to run the visual aspects of the program.
Title: Making Money From Lemons
Contributor: Katelyn Cohen
Subject Matter: Mathematics, business, economics, marketing
Grade Level: 7-9th grade
Description:This is a two week long activity, in which students will learn about mathematics, business, marketing and economics by starting their own lemonade business. Students will get into groups and make decisions about materials, costs, and how to make lemonade. Students will run their own lemonade stand, record data, and analyze how much money they made or lost. Students will use a program on internet explorer
and go to the site http://www.coolmath-games.com/lemonade/.
This program is a mock of what the students will actually be doing with their peers. Students will record data from this site for several days to see if they make a profit with their lemonade stand. At the end of the project students will write a reflection paper regarding their experiment.
Computer Environment/ Resources: Microsoft Excel and Internet Explorer
Contributor: Alex Srnovrsnik
Subject Matter: Statistics
Grade Level: 9-12
Description: In this lesson, students will be placed in groups of four and are given a subject in relation to stats. They are to work together and create a problem that relates to the subject, that they can solve. After creating the problem and solving it on paper, the students would make their problem into a Powerpoint presentation. They will then present their problem to the class. The groups are instructed to use graphs, pie charts, notes, etc. on each slide to help classmates better understand the problem and make it easier for the students to find a solution to the problem. After the class has been given enough time to attempt the problem, the group presenting will show the students that attempted the problem the correct solution. If the group presenting makes a very good powerpoint presentation that assists students to help solve the problem, the goal of this lesson is accomplished and along with this, the group presenting should have a better understanding as well. This is more of a constructivist lesson plan.
Computer Environment/ Resources: This lesson described would require a classroom with enough computers to accomodate groups of four students, such as a computer lab or library. The computers will need at bare minimum, internet access, Microsoft Office, and Internet Explorer. The teacher will need an LCD projector and screen for students to present their Powerpoint show.
Title: Learning How to Solve an Equation with a Graphing Calculator
Contributor: Devin Sullivan
Subject Matter: Math Content using a Graphing Calculator
Grade Level: 8-12
Description: This website has a lesson plan that shows students how to use the different features on their graphing calculators. Students have trouble using the different programs on their calculators when given a math problem. This lesson will assist the students in a math problem using their graphing calculators. The teacher will project what she/he is doing on the graphing calculator by having the graphing calculator connected to the computer so it can be seen by the class.
Computer Environment/ Resources: This lesson would require a classroom full of graphing calculators. The teacher will need to have a graphing calculator that connects to a computer that can be projected to the whole class.
Title: My Dream Room
Contributor: Lonni Wiselogel
Subject Matter: Math
Grade Level: 7-8
Description: Students will be given several old catalogs and a $2,500 budget to decorate their dream bedroom and will keep track of their expenditures with a spreadsheet in Excel. They will have to enter in the information and prices of everything that they "purchase" from old catalogs into different categories and total them all to make sure that they stay within their budget. They will be graded on their application of their knowledge in using spreadsheets and following the directions given.
Computer Environment/ Resources: This lesson requires a computer lab with enough computers for each students that have Excel spreadsheet software. You will also need instruction sheets and enough catalogs for all the students.
Contributor: Jon McClelland
Subject Matter: Any that a teacher is willing to try
Grade Level: 6-12
Description: This website shows the educational uses of Second Life, including distance learning. It could really be used for any subject matter but I put it in the Math 7-12 category because I feel that teaching Math or similar subject through Second Life would be more successful than some other subjects. Also, I think Second Life would be easier to operate for students of an old age and grade level. Basically, the website talks about how there are many educational advantages involved with using Second Life to teach. One example mentioned is how Ball State University has actually had some success with teaching its ENG104 class online through Second Life. The class was a basic level course focusing mainly on the research aspects of written assignments. The class was a hybrid having half of the class taught through Second Life. Visitors could even sit in on the online class. There are many other examples mentioned on the website and how to use each of them.
Computer Environment/ Resources: Teaching with Second Life requires students and teachers to have a computer with internet access and Second Life software installed, which can be downloaded for free from their website. Also, computers used to operate Second Life need a high end graphics card to run the visual aspects of the program.