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EDU7666 GROUP 2

__**Mathematics /** **Technology Unit: Grades 3-5**__
**__Aim__:** To incorporate technology into a full mathematics lesson that will expaand students understanding of abstract mathematical concepts in the classroom. In their self reflections, question that must be answered will consist of: 1. Can you group shapes by characteristics such as the number of sides? 2. List all the activities you explored 3. What are your two favorite activities from the virtual manipulatives website 4. Make a family tree showing relationships to the different shapes. 5. What do you think about blogging/wikis/technology in your classroom?
 * __Learning Objective__:** Students will learn with virtual manipulatives, sort shapes, and create a spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel. Students will name two of their favorite virtual manipulative activities, classify shapes using a venn diagram and shape sorter (NCTM). Students will learn how to create a blog and will be assigned work to post on it. Students will create an open class wiki, where all students will have access to the site.
 * __Instructional Plan__:** Students will first identify shapes. For a higher level of thinking students will be offered extra credit if they are able to name the shapes by their mathematical terms ie: rhombus, parallelogram, hexagon etc. Students will then compose a conceptual mathematics blog and address their opinions and interests in using the assigned (NCTM) website activties and pose questions to their teachers and classmates. Students will create a wiki, on their wiki they will add a KWL chart that they would have created on microsoft Excel and utilize prior knowledge, and previous lessons in order to establish what they know about these extensive shapes, what they want to know and after the lesson they will add what they have learned. On their blog, they will comment on what they read, from 3 of their classmates KWL charts, including what they didn't know, that their classmates may have known.
 * __Extensions__:** Students will prepare for futher extensive lessons on alternative mathematical concepts that will be much more extensive then shapes. They will have more practice and additional assignments dealing with the root (Shapes) of the technology incorporated math lesson. On the NCTM website, students will play with 5 different activities from the virtual manipulatives page. They will complete 3 activities using venn-diagrams and write a self reflection on what was learned.