John's+Lesson+Plan

Module 2-D-2 Assignment – John Hammon **Lesson Plan Title:** Blogging the Problem of the Week **Concept :** Adapt the Problem of the Week to a Web 2.0 technology – a blog **General Goal(s):** Teamwork, Problem Solving Skills, Blogging solutions onto class blog, and finding alternate solutions. **Required Materials:** Students will be provided with the problem of the week for their class. Calculators are allowed and available in the classroom. Classroom computers and mobile lab laptops will be available to post solutions. Students will be provided with the address of the class blog so they can post their answers. Student will need a removable memory device on which the teacher will save a PDF file. **Step-By-Step Procedures:** Students are already familiar with the Problem of the Week activity. Students are paired into groups of two students. A math word problem that can be solved several different ways will be distributed to the appropriate grade level class. Students will be given some class time to meet and work on the problem. They are to record all steps and calculations which they use to solve the problem. When the students feel they have solved the problem, their raw calculations will be given to the teacher. These will be scanned and turned into a PDF file. The file will be given back to the students on a flash drive for posting purposes. By Friday, students are to log onto the class blog and post their PDF calculations file. In the body of the post they are to explain the steps they took to solve the problem, which should match exactly the calculations as shown. Over the weekend the teacher will approve all of the post at the same time to make them visible to the class. Finally, each student individually, is responsible to comment on at least one of the solutions other than their own concerning the similarities and differences between how they solved the problem and how the group they are commenting on solved the problem. Assessment Based On Objectives: Students will be evaluated on a ten-point basis. Each student will be given up to five points for following the steps in order to get the problem and solution posted on the blog. In addition each student will be given up to three points for the solution process and correctness of their answer. Finally each student will be given up to two points for their comment on the solution of another group.