LFS Lesson Plan
Measurement Problem Solving
Unit EQ: What skills are basic necessities for understanding technology?
Lab for solving measurement problems. Application of lesson data.
Activating Strategies: At a family dinner Mom & Dad inform the family that due to the economy, we all have to pitch in to help maintain our house and yard. We need to replace the carpet in the den, put up a new mail box, fix the door bell and change the spark plug in the mower and inflate the car tires to improve on gas mileage. Which chore would you like to do? Which chore(s) do you think you can do?
Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary: Volume, distance, pressure, area, volume, electrical properities, speed.
Bench ruler, sonic tape, tape measure, multimeter, spark plug guage, air pressure guage, callipers, torpedo level
Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:
Hand out lab sheets.
Review activites
Divide among 5 workstations
15 points total. Answer must be correct for credit. 1 week to make up work.
Summarizing Strategies: