Name:

Grace McDavid
Grade Level: 2nd grade
Subject Taught: math
Observation Date: April 18, 2016

Lesson Plan Components:
CC Standards and/or Essential Standards:

I Can Statement: I can create a line plot to record measurements.

Your actions

STOF Alignment/Comments

Opener:
After GoNoodle read aloud I can statement
together.

What is a centimeter? (its on the bottom of a
ruler)

What else do we know about centimeters? (30
centimeters on the ruler)

TIP:
What about this? (showed a map) Does anyone
remember anything about this map from
Thursday? The countries in the red dont use
centimeters are our unit of measure.

How many countries?

Are you ready? Were going to take a trip!
Were going to visit ____s dad, grandfather (my
grandfather).



What unit of measure is our doctor going to
use?


Were going to measure each other using a
meter stick. How many centimeters are in a
meter (had someone read out to tell the whole

Really nice job helping to Timothy to articulate his
thoughts using the ruler! (2a)





I love this visual!! This is a great way for them to
see who uses centimeters versus who doesnt! (4d)



Nice attention to Alaska being in the US!! (3c)

Let them be excited! When learning is engaging
and exciting, it wont be silent J (2b)
The students were clearly excited about
this context!! I attribute this to them
finding relevance in it!

Nice job going back to the map to show everyone
what Timothy was saying about Mexico using
meters to measure (3c, 4d)

group).


Modeled how to measure Rustelle. Where
should we put our 0?


Wait, R is taller than 100 though. What do we
do? (add another stick)

You started to tell them how to add the two
together. Natalie told you it was 130.

Great question!!! This helps them to make sure
they attend to that 0 point and avoid that error!
(3b)

Nice question to get them thinking about iterations
great they were able to tell you this!

Let HER explain this OR call on another student to
tell you HOW they think she got 130? (4g)

SAP:
Students measured each other.













Sit down and everyone face me. I want to know
how tall everyone is, but do you know of a good
way to easily see how tall everyone is?
Everyones height (writing it down).

What if were trying to see how many people
are the same height? (trinity explained)

Can anyone tell me what Trinity just said?

Chance for peer assessment while youre working
with your partner, really make sure the one
measuring is attending to the 0 point and moving
the meter stick correctly! (4h)

The students were really excited about this! They
enjoyed getting up and moving!

Nice job circulating to make sure they were all on
track. (4g)

Nice that they had a ticket to write their
measurements on! (4d)






Nice scaffolding to get students to think about this!


Nice talk move!!! Great use of it! This really helps
to validate her! (2a)

Showed the line plot had students tell how

they thought the line plot would work.

Were going to plot our measurements on the
line plot. Called Natalie up to show where to
plot her dot. WHY is Natalie going to plot her
dot at the 134?

While youre coming up to plot your dots, youre
also going to create your own line plot. At the
top of this, youre going to write your name.














What do you notice about this line plot? (more
people that are 134) How many?

Why do we want to use a line plot? How does it
help us?

GREAT that you had a student explain that!! (4g)


Im wondering how this is going to work since
they havent had experience creating their own
graph?? Also, typically on a line plot, the plots
are made with an X, not a circle!
You also want to be careful with their
possible errors here the starting point of
all the plots should be the same, and then
each row on the line plot should be the
same height! (3b)

Nice job requiring them to use the unit in their
explanation! (3a)

Great job working with Trinity to show everyone
how tall she was, since she thought it was 115.





This is a great question to get them to the heart of
the big idea line plots make it easy to analyze
data and organize information!
This is a great chance for talk with your
table about how this line plot helps! Nice to
utilize call on a friend, but to encourage
100% participation, table talk would be
beneficial.

Closure:
Theres a lot of different things we can do on a
line plot, but were just doing height for right
now. I want you to take out your math
notebook. Were going to do a quick write for 5

minutes.

We have Puzzle Penguin up here. Puzzle
Penguin said, My pencil is 5 inches long. So, it
must be less than 5 centimeters long.

Nice question! I love that you had them agree or
disagree. Nice visual on the smart board.
This is a nice form of self assessment! (4h)
So this was SO tricky and I really liked it!!
I do think it wouldve been helpful to
clarify their confusion for them so they had
a chance to truly show you whether they
could access the problem, or if it was just a
matter of them not understanding the
problem?! It will be a nice starting point
tomorrow!

What about tying it all together with the line plot?

Strengths:
Nice context for global awareness! Thanks for thinking about the interests and cultures of
your kids! They were truly engaged and excited about what they were doing!
Engagement via variety of instructional strategies & your prep ahead of time nice visuals on
the smartboard, tickets to write their measurements, measuring each other, creating a line
plot with their own data, use of journals (yay!!)
Areas to improve:
Higher expectations of the kids & chances for critical thinking let THEM tell their thinking and
explain, rather than you explaining it.
o Your role is to help summarize what they say and make sure everyone is on the same
page! This encourages higher level/critical thinking (3d) and students to articulate
their thoughts (4g)
o Along with this, make sure youre aware of the content really know possible mistakes
they could make and be sure to correct those so the students dont practice the
mistakes over and over (in this case, the line plot)
Remember theyre kids let them be excited! Think about how you react when you get
excited about something! We want them to be chatty and engaged in it!
o I encourage you to enjoy the rest of your time with this group. They are very well
behaved and sweet! This is not often the case with a whole group, so take it all in!!