EDSC 330 Strategy Presentation Lesson Template

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Names: Timothy Flores and Ayrton Lozada Subject Area(s): Geometry

Lesson Topic: Regular Hexagons Grade Level(s): 9th-10th

Standards
Literacy Standard(s):
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.4: ​Determine the meaning of ​symbols, key terms​,
and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific
or technical context relevant to ​grades 9-10 ​texts and topics.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.3:​ Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure
when carrying out experiments, ​taking measurements, or performing technical
tasks; attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.4: ​Produce clear and coherent writing in which the
development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and
audience.

Content Area Standard(s):

CCSS.Math.Content.HSG.MG.A.1:
Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects (e.g.,
modeling a tree trunk or a human torso as a cylinder).

English Language Development (ELD) Standard(s):

Gr.9:P1.A.1.Br: ​Contribute to class, group, and partner discussions, sustaining
conversations on a variety of age and grade-appropriate academic topics by
following turn-taking rules, asking and answering relevant, on-topic questions,
affirming others, and providing coherent and well-articulated comments and
additional information.
Gr.9:P1.B.5.Ex: ​Demonstrate comprehension of oral presentations and ​discussions
on a variety of social and ​academic topics by asking and answering questions
that show thoughtful consideration of the ideas or arguments, with moderate
support.
Lesson Objectives & Supports
Content objectives:​.
● Students will identify honeycombs as regular hexagons by observations and
research.
● Students will utilize the properties of a hexagon to find the area of a regular
hexagon
Literacy objectives: ​Students will be able to follow a multistep procedure when
finding the measurement of a two-dimensional geometric shape while writing their
thinking process and development of the procedure in a organized manner and in a
style appropriate to a mathematical audience.

Academic vocabulary:
Tier II (General): ​Analyze, Infer, Calculate, Determine
Tier III (Domain specific): ​Angle, Perpendicular, Sum, Interior, Regular, Hexagon,
Length, Area

Literacy strategies and Integrated ELD Strategies (SDAIE, Specially Designed

Academic Instruction in English):

Mind Mapping ​(Barron, 1969; Tierney & Readence, 2004)

Mind-mapping is a technique to visualize connected ideas from one idea,
concept, or picture. The class will make a mind map starting with the idea of a
hexagon.

Assessment: How will you know if students met your objectives?

Students will be evaluated on their comprehension of identification of hexagons and
properties of hexagons through a written assessment that requires them to find the area of
regular hexagon.
 Instruction: What you’ll teach, and how

Lesson Introduction/Anticipatory Set

Time Teacher Does Student Does

0-10 minutes
● Teacher introduces themselves and asks ● Students take out paper and pencils
students to get out a piece of paper and ● Listens quietly and pays close attention
pencil ● Students connect various ideas and concepts
● Teacher turns on projector to model the to hexagons
mind mapping strategy and activate the ● Students construct their own mind maps
student’s prior knowledge
● Teacher instructs student to pay close
attention as the teacher puts paper in
landscape position and draws an ellipse in
the middle of the paper. Then, draws a
triangle and writes in the ellipse and writes
the following: “Where have you seen this
shape?”
● Teacher models strategy by drawing
another ellipse and writing “pizza slice”.
Then, drawing another ellipse and writing
“cheese” and “slice of cheese”.
● Teacher then instructs students to do their
own but this time with a hexagon instead of
triangle

Lesson Body

Time Teacher Does Student Does

5 mins ● Teacher instructs students to share with ● Students share their thinking process and
their elbow partner by explaining their explain their decisions while the partner is
thinking method. Assigns turns for student listening attentively.
sharing.
3 mins ● Teacher shows pictures of where students ● Relates hexagonal shape to their daily lives.
might have seen hexagons in their everyday
lives and reminds the students of a
particular insect that makes hexagonal
shapes and is responsible for the syrup they
use on their pancakes.
3 mins ● Shows “Why do bees build hexagonal ● Watches the video quietly.
honeycombs” video and emphasizes that a
bee must use the least amount of wax to
build a hexagonal cell.
2 mins
 ● Teacher draws a regular hexagon the ● Students draw regular hexagon on their
whiteboard with measurement of 5 meters notes.
8 mins for each side
● Lists the properties of a regular hexagon ● Copies down the properties of a regular
and lectures about about regular hexagon hexagon.
properties: such as angles, side lengths, and
area. While lecturing, the teacher will ask
questions what the angle of an interior
2 mins angle
● Then asks the class, based on their ● Figures out that to fill out a honeycomb cell,
background knowledge what would be an the wax covers the area of the cell.
efficient way to find out how much wax a
bee must use to fill a honeycomb cell?
7 mins ● Uses properties of a hexagon to find the ● Helps teacher find the area by participating
area and see how much wax a bee would in discussion and providing properties.
need

Lesson Closure

Time Teacher Does Student Does

10 mins ● Teacher assigns a exit slip of finding the ● Completes exit slip
area of a regular hexagon,

Instructional Materials, Equipment & Multimedia

List any readings, websites, materials, handouts, technology, etc. necessary for your lesson.
Use APA format for any citations, and attach copies of any handouts or other print
materials used during the lesson.

BBC (2016, June 28,). ​Why do bees build hexagonal honeycombs? - Forces of Nature with Brian

Cox: Episode 1- ​BBC One​.(Video File). Retrieved from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=142&v=kxDEcODUEP0
Differentiation:
Indicate how you could adapt this lesson for each of the following groups of students.
Adaptations might include additional literacy supports or scaffolds, texts written at multiple
levels, etc.

English learners: ​Allow more discussion between English learners and providing
more visuals.
Striving readers: ​Provide sentence frames in the quiz for students to write the
answer (Ex: The area of the hexagon is___).
Students with special needs: ​Appealing to their 504 plans and IEPs
Advanced students: ​Assign an additional text that is more complex and be assigned
research to answer a question regarding the importance hexagons in other
disciplines.