NANCY KECK
OCTOBER 19, 2008
Abe Lincoln’s Life The Message in the Secret Guide ...
Thinks deductively applying rules and principles. Can deal with numbers and recognise abstract patterns. Core Operations: number, categorization, relations
Help Teachers create a “Construct A Log Cabin Lesson Plan” using Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory...Logical/Mathematical In this project, students will further explore their knowledge of right triangles, concentrating on the 30-60-90 special right triangle. In cooperative learning groups, students will design and create a scaled down model of a life size log cabin/tourist attraction similar to Abe Lincoln’s birthplace. Students will expand and solidify their knowledge of right triangles in creating and constructing this real life model.
"People with highly developed logicalmathematical intelligence understand the underlying principles of some kind of a causal system, the way a scientist or a logician does; or can manipulate numbers, quantities, and operations, the way a mathematician does." -Howard Gardner (Checkley, 1997, p. 12) 1
NANCY KECK
OCTOBER 19, 2008
MAIN CURRICULUM TIE-IN
Mathematics -
posterboard
Geometry Strand C
concepts of
colored pencils or markers
proportion and
tape
Students will extend
similarity to
centimeter rulers
scissors
any other items which the group would like to use to decorate their attraction.
trigonometric ratios. Career Connections: Engineering, Architecture, Drafting Scenes from Land of Lincoln in Second Life
Materials:
Background For Teachers: Teachers will want to use this lesson after their students are familiar with the qualities of right triangles. Students should know how to use, and measure triangle sides using the Pythagorean Theorem. Students will also need to know properties of the 30-60-90 right triangle. In this lesson, teachers will be putting students in cooperative learning groups.
Student Prior Knowledge: Students will need to know how to use the Pythagorean Theorem, find perimeter and be familiar with the regular hexagon and how to find the interior angles of this shape. Students will also need to have practiced problems using the 30-60-90 special right triangle.
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NANCY KECK
OCTOBER 19, 2008
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Students will explore the properties of right triangles, and expand and solidify their knowledge in creating and constructing a real life model. In small learning groups, students will conceive a structure, create a small scale model of their attraction, assess themselves and other groups, and present their models and findings to the class.
Instructional Procedures: After learning and practicing special right triangle problems involving the 30-60-90 triangle, students are ready to use their knowledge in this hands on activity. Students will be clustered in cooperative learning groups of 2-3 students in each group.
Directions: Students will now get into their groups and brainstorm a log cabin/tourist attraction which they would like to create. This structure must be in a regular hexagonal shape. Groups must sketch a blueprint of their structure, including a scale, and measurements calculated using 30-60-90 trigonometry principles. Sample Blueprint Next Page. Students will design a small scale model of their attraction. Students must construct a model of what the structure will look like on the outside, providing measurements that are accurate to their scale, and found in real world structures. Students must have a center point in the middle of the structure, and 6 hallways, or walkways to each side of the hexagon. These walkways must be perpendicular bisectors to the opposite side of the hexagon. The length of the walkways and the sides of the hexagon must be calculated using their knowledge of right triangles, and the 30-60-90 right triangle. Students will submit measurements for each side of the hexagons, and each walkway in their structure. Their calculations are also a required submission. The group must decide on a "real life" scale for their structure, and submit their final measurements in scale and real life measurements.
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Designing a Log Cabin - Teacher Blueprint Located below is a sample blueprint for the “Designing a Log Cabin� Lesson Plan. Students will need to include the lengths of each of the six Walkways, and the inner and outer walls of the building. Have students discover that 24 similar right triangles will be formed. One right angle leg from the center to its perpendicular bisector, one from the center to the vertex of the hexagon, and the other from the midpoint to the vertex. Have students show all calculations with their blueprint, and include a scale from centimeters to real life measurements, such as feet or yards.
Building Walkway or Hall
For example: This set of similar triangles would be located here.
Center Section
Names of Students in Group: 1. __________________ 2. __________________ 3. __________________
Name of Project:___________
“Designing a Log Cabin” Assessment Criteria This project is worth a total of 100 points. The break down of those points are as follows: Blueprint: Accuracy of Measurement and Calculations: Summery Paper: Oral Presentation: Overall Appearance of Project: Total
10 points 60 points 10 points 10 points 10 points ___________ 100 points
Part 1: Group Self Evaluation: (Please give your own group a grade using the above criteria.)
Part 2: Group Evaluation from another group in this class. (Please list all names included in this evaluation. Comments are encouraged!!)
Part 3: Teacher’s Evaluation and Comments:
MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE
TEACHERS: Abe loved music, but was not much of a musician himself. He appreciated it so much that he had a campaign song written for him.
TEACHERS: Explain about instruments used in Abe’s time period and play them for your students
Advances in today’s instrument technology with instruments such as the electric guitar, bass guitar, synthesizers, and even computer generated music
Have children play the song from Abe Lincoln’s time on today’s instruments
Visual Intelligence
The next stop in our Secret Guide
Visual Intelligence Visual learning is when a student learns through seeing. They need pictures and need to be able to create, or visualize in their minds what they are learning. Their skills include: puzzle building, reading, writing, understanding charts and graphs, a good sense of direction, sketching, painting, creating visual metaphors and analogies (perhaps through the visual arts), manipulating images, constructing, fixing, designing practical objects, interpreting visual images (Bogod, 1998).
For the Visual Intelligence we will be doing a
Reader’s Theater Abraham Lincoln By Sarah Kartchner Clark A Reader’s theater with five parts You can find this script on the following website http://books.google.com/books?id=mXINB6PRXOcC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=readers+theater+Abraham +Lincoln&source=web&ots=r_eEoo-4WO&sig=ZDBQnxQt2tM4m6KGj3NPNPdsnlM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_ result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA48,M1
To integrate Visual Intelligence in your classroom, you need to make the students feel as if they are there. In this case, we want the students to think that they are back in Abraham Lincoln’s time.
When doing readers theater, for the children to remember the content, helping them re-live it will really help. First, the children need to feel like they are there, so you will need props. If you have a drama department, you may ask them for clothing. If you do not have a drama department, you may asks your local high school. They are usually really good about helping out the younger children. You may even just find clothes around your house or at yard sales. You should not spend a lot of money on this. Children do have a great imagination.
Pictures can help them visualize the scenery around them.
The ladies in long puffy dresses and the horse and carriage will help them visualize how the ladies dressed and how people got around then.
These pictures show how the men dressed.
Examples of some the houses people lived in. The Plantation houses were real popular.
They love to sit on the porch and play music and sing
Farming was a way of life. Most children today, do not know anything about farming.
References Bogod, L. (1998). LdPride. Retrieved October 19, 2008 from http://www.ldpride.netlearningstyles.MI.htm#Verbal/Linguistic%20Intelligence Kartchner Clark, S. (2006). Reader's Theater Scripts Improve Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension Grade 5. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education.