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Discussing Mathematics During an Integrated Lesson flat  media type="custom" key="23586032" align="center"

Elizabeth Jackson || Workshop Title Discussing and Integrating Mathematics || Day 3 || Collaboration Integration |||||| Prerequisite Knowledge
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 * Subject(s) of the day's workshop

ActivInspire Basics, How to collaborate using the Schoology site, How to Access Google Drive ||
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This workshop uses the online food plate website, ActivInspire, and Schoology, to encourage mathematics discussion, and mathematics integration in a health lesson. In this workshop, students identify foods they have eaten, sort the foods into groups using ActivInspire, create pie charts using Google Spreadsheets, and discuss their results using the Schoology site. ||
 * =Objectives =
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will use ActivInspire to gather and organize pictures.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will use Google Spreadsheet to create pie charts.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will use Schoology to discuss mathematics thinking.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will reflect on workshop activities and personal experiences to identify how they can integrate mathematics instruction into another subject area. ||
 * =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lesson =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prior Day’s Homework:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students: Students created a chart that contains all of the foods they have eaten in the last 24 hours.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher: Teacher posts discussion Food Plate topic. The post includes, The My Food Plate picture, which will be used by students in the day’s lesson.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Current Day: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussion of workshop goals and expectations.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity 1: =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students create ActivInspire flipcharts with pictures of the foods they have eaten in the last 24 hours and share the information with a partner.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students view the online site, [|www.choosemyplate.com] to review the basic food groups.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students sort foods on flipcharts according to food groups. They may choose to incorporate one of their constructed interactive graphs. Students should note observations about their data, such as which food group has the most and the least foods.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity 2: =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students count foods in each group and use Google Spreadsheet to create a simple pie chart of their food data. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students embed chart’s picture code into the Schoology class discussion group.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students take a break.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity 3: =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Class reconvenes and students view the My Plate picture on the Schoology website. They will be encouraged to post conclusions that they can make about the food selections from the pie charts by comparing the charts created by classmates to that of the My Plates site. For instance, if the grains section from the My Plate site only takes up 30% of the pie, but someone has 50% of their chart filled with dairy, a student could post that they noticed that their dairy intake is greater than that of the recommended amount per day. So, the next day they should be mindful of their consumption. Likewise, if they realize that half of their chart is grains, and so is that of the My Plate diagram, then they could conclude that they have consumed the right amount of dairy for the day.

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[|img src:http://www.choosemyplate.gov/images/MyPlateImages/JPG/myplate_blue.jpg] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These two pictures are examples of finished products. The diagram on the left shows the My Plate example and the pie chart on the right shows a completed student assignment. Students could make a number of conclusions about this chart, such as the student consumed twice as many proteins as he or she should have, and that dairy and vegetables are omitted. So, the student should work to consume more of those food groups.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exit Card and Reflection Assignment: =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will be notified of the possibility of having a workshop potluck lunch based on the findings of the classroom pie chart data. They will be asked to identify two items they would bring, and why, using information from the classroom blog. Students will also identify one way they can integrate mathematics with another subject.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Homework:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will read pages 8-11 of the article found at <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://scimath.unl.edu/MIM/files/research/West_AR_final_LA.pdf. ||
 * =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Materials =
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Food Tracker: A chart students will use to identify all of the foods they have eaten in a 24 hour period.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet: Students and trainer will use the internet to view information about the food groups, search for pictures of foods, access Google, and post to Schoology.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ActivInspire software: Students will insert and sort pictures of foods that they have eaten into their designated food groups.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tutorial for Google Spreadsheet: Optional tutorial for students who are unfamiliar with how to use the program.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Printed directions: Reference for students to assist with Schoology posts and Google Spreadsheet.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Checklist: Allows teacher to determine which students have shown mastery of reflective thinking and useful feedback.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lesson exit card and reflection: Used to evaluate student understanding of Schoology blog content. ||
 * =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Evaluation Strategies =
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work samples: Do the samples show mastery of Google Spreadsheet?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Checklist: Do students show evidence of reflective thinking and useful feedback to others?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Schoology post: Do students draw conclusions based on the pie charts and My Plate diagram?
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exit card: Can students synthesize food group research and group discussion to identify foods that should be included in a workshop potluck? ||