University of West Alabama

5E Lesson Plan Template (Individual Technology Product)

Teacher: Paul David Campbell

Date: 01/24/2019

Subject area/course/grade level: Seventh grade Math Class

Materials: football field, paper, pencil, computer

Standards (State and ISTE Standards for Students):

- Alabama Course of Study, 7th grade math: 7.1) Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions,
including ratios of lengths, areas, and other quantities measured in like or different units;

- ITSE Student Standards: 1c Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their
practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
4a Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating
innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.

Objectives: Ratios and Unit Rates

Differentiation Strategies: calculator, small group

ENGAGEMENT:

Learning Target: I can compute unit rates associated with ratios of quantities measured in different units.

-Show video of “Top 10 Men’s 100m sprints of all Time”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEuJ5b4FDXA

-Talk about how the judges determine who wins each sprint.

Assessment: participation in group discussion

EXPLORATION:

-Take groups of 5 students outside to the football field to have short sprints.
-Ask students how fast they can run.
-Explain that students are going to do 10-yard sprints.
-Present students where they will start running and where they will stop.
-Time students on stop watch. Tell each the time it took them to run to the stopping point.
-Tell students that you want them to run from the finish line to the starting line in less time than before.
-Ask students how we can measure our rate of running.
-Ask what quantities we will use to describe our rate.

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- Describe the quantities you want to measure by talking about what units we use to measure each
quantity.

Assessment: participation in races and in discussion

EXPLANATION:

-Discussion of Vocabulary for Ratios and Unit Rates:

-A ratio is an ordered pair of numbers which are not both zero. A ratio is denoted 𝑨 ∶ 𝑩 to indicate the order
of the numbers: the number 𝑨 is first and the number 𝑩 is second.
-Two ratios 𝑨 ∶ 𝑩 and 𝑪 ∶ 𝑫 are equivalent ratios if there is a nonzero number 𝒄 such that 𝑪 = 𝒄𝑨 and 𝑫 =
𝒄𝑩. For example, two ratios are equivalent if they both have values that are equal.
-A ratio relationship between two types of quantities, such as 𝟓 miles per 𝟐 hours, can be described as a
rate (i.e., the quantity 𝟐. 𝟓 miles/hour). The numerical part of the rate is called the unit rate and is simply
the value of the ratio, in this case 𝟐. 𝟓. This means that in 𝟏 hour the car travels 𝟐. 𝟓 miles. The unit for the
rate is miles/hour, read miles per hour.

-As a group of five with the teacher, complete the following chart:

Student Number of Time in Ratio of Rate Unit Rate

Yards Run Seconds Number of
Yards Run to
Time

Assessment: Completed chart

Differentiation: use of calculator
ELABORATION:

-Individually, students will create a technology product to demonstrate his/her understanding of the
following:
Make a comparison of quantities that are measured in the same units by comparing the ratio of the number
of boys to the number of girls in this class to the ratio for different classes.

-Questions to be answered:
- Are the ratios of boys to girls in the classes equivalent?
- What could these ratios tell us?
- What does the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in Class 1 to the ratio of the number of
boys to the number of girls in the entire seventh-grade class tell us?

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Assessment: completed technology product
Differentiation: completion of project with special education teacher in small group, calculator

EVALUATION: checklist

Points Earned Activity

___ __/10 Participation in discussion about “100-meter sprints” video.
/10 Participation in discussion about sprints on football field.
/10 Completed chart for Sprints
/20 Completed technology product
/20 Correct answers for gender comparisons
/10 Answer to Question 1
/10 Answer to Question 2
/10 Answer to Question 3
/100 TOTAL POINTS

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