Project-Based Learning Lesson 1

Lesson: An Introduction to Integer Stories Week/Lesson #: 1 Amount of Time(period/days): 60 minutes, 1 math period
Guiding or Unit Questions: When do you need to multiply and divide integers in your daily life? When do you need to multiply and divide integers in your daily life? Where do you find negative integers in real life? Where do you find integers in real life?
Massachusetts State Standards: GENERAL STANDARD 19: Writing 19.16 Write brief research reports with clear focus and supporting detail. 19.17 Write a short explanation of a process that includes a topic statement, supporting details, and a conclusion. GRADES 5–6 LEARNING STANDARDS: Number Sense and Operations 6.N.6 Find and position integers (both positive and negative) on the number line. 6.N.7 Compare and order integers (including negative integers) 6.N.9 Select and use appropriate operations to solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and positive integer exponents with whole numbers 6.N.13 Accurately and efficiently add, subtract, multiply, and divide (with double-digit divisors) whole numbers. 6.N.15 Add and subtract integers, with the exception of subtracting negative integers. ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY BENCHMARKS AND OUTCOMES FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Understands words and phrases of grade-level academic content, including technical and abstract terms. (S.1.25) Creates media production using images, text, sound, and/or graphics. (W.5.13) Writes short accounts of personal or familiar experiences, including academic topics. (W.2.7a) Writes brief research reports with clear focus and supporting detail. (W.2.8f) Participates in classroom discussion and other academic interactions using basic and and complex sentence structures (S.3.65)
Materials/Technology:	Brainstorming web “My Life as an Integer Assignment” prompt “My Life as an Integer Assignment Pre-Writing Outline”
Factual Knowledge	Students will know: the definition of an integer the difference between positive and negative integers Places where integers are in real life
Procedural Knowledge	Students will be able to: add, subtract, multiply and divide both positive and negative integers write a personal narrative including mathematical equations and scenarios in which they encounter integers in their daily lives participate in a classroom brainstorming session participate in the writing process by brainstorming, pre-writing and writing a first draft
Conceptual Knowledge	Students will understand: Integers are an important part of mathematics and all throughout our daily lives. A negative integer is the opposite of a positive integer A negative sign indicates direction of movement, moving left on the number line or numbers below zero A positive added to a positive is a positive A negative added to a negative is a negative A positive multiplied or divided by a positive is a positive A negative multiplied or divided by a negative is a negative A positive multiplied or divided by a negative is a negative A negative multiplied or dived by a positive is a negative Subtracting a positive is the same as adding a negative
Outline of Steps in Lesson: The class begins with a “Do Now” on the board. The students are asked to answer the following question in their notebooks: “What is an integer?” After 10 minutes, the teacher opens up a class discussion on “What is an integer?” as a class, the students develop a comprehensive definition and the teacher writes it on the board. The teacher makes a brainstorming web with “Examples of integers in the real world” in the middle. The students then brainstorm as a class examples of integers including money, time, temperature, sports scores, height, shoe sizes, elevation and any other ideas the students can think of. If the students struggle with examples of negative integers, the teacher should prompt answers or guide the brainstorming session to make sure examples of negative integers are included. Students should copy the web into their notebooks. The teacher then introduces the assignment. Students will begin writing integer stories about where they find integers in their daily lives They will use the “My Life as an Integer Assignment Pre-Writing Outline” as a support to formulate their ideas and make sure they include equations for each operation Students will be expected to have a rough draft by the end of the week
Assessments Formative and Summative Tools	The first draft of the integer is due by Friday. Students will receive credit for turning in the rough draft. It will be editing by the teacher over the weekend and each student will conference with the teacher in the next week.