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Lesson Plan for Friday April 8th Grade Level: 5th grade Area of Study: Math, observing project Duration: 45mins-hour

Objective: (This is a lesson for the students to see a completed project by Cara and Sara) Students will pay close attention to what is expected of them with their Roller coaster project.

Standards: There will be no standards for this lesson, because they are strictly listening and observing what they will be doing in future classes.

Rationale: The main goal of this lesson is for our students to see a completed roller coaster project. We have completed the project and will go step by step on how the students will complete their project. We wanted to do this so students can visually see what they need to do and what is expected of them.

Materials: -Promethean board -Flip chart

Introduction: //Good morning everybody! Who is excited to begin this roller coaster madness project!? Today we are going to take you on a step by step procedure on how to finish a completed project. Then next week we will begin the hard work.//

Procedure: -We will go page by page through our finished flip chart and discuss in depth what is expected on each page. -Page One is self explanatory. -Page two -Teams will research three roller coasters from the sites we provide to them. -We will show them how to look up roller coasters and locate the length, duration, and speed. -Once they have found three they will create a chart with their data. -Page Three -Teams will calculate the mean, median, mode, and range of all three roller coasters. -We will tell them they need to convert minutes to seconds but then back to minutes for the final project. -Again they will form a chart with the data they calculated. -Page Four -Students will pick of the three roller coasters which one they think is the best or their favorite. -They will then calculate the velocity and acceleration. -We will walk through with them how to calculate both of these and discuss the formulas. -Page Five -This page the students need to come up with three reasons why they think their roller coaster is the best or why they like it so much. -They are free to write whatever they want but we want bullet points and then they tell the class why they chose those reasons.

-To conclude this lesson we will inform the students that they have the creative right to add pictures, sounds, etc. To their projects to make it more interesting. -We will also make sure they are aware that we are here to help and to not hesitate if they are confused or have questions.

Assessment: We will not have any assessment for this lesson. It is strictly for the students to see exactly what is expected of them and for them to ask questions before we get more in depth into the project.