This Inspiration Lesson Plan Form was adapted from:
Honolulu Community College Intranet (2007), Faculty Development Teaching Tips Index http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachti...

DAILY LESSON PLAN

Instructor (future teacher): John Sniegoski

1. How long the is lesson designed to take: 40 Minutes

2. LESSON PLAN Unit Title: 6th Grade Mathematics (Geometry): Congruence and Similarity

3. Instructional goals (using the VSC outline the instructional goals for your lesson)

A. Analyze congruent figures

B. Analyze the properties of plane geometric figures

C. Represent plane geometric figures

4. Objectives (using the VSC outline the objectives for your lesson)

A. Identify and describe congruent polygons and their corresponding parts

B. Identify, describe, or draw a polygon

5. Rationale

My rational behind this lesson plan is to not only meet several voluntary state curricular mandates but also teach children about how to design maps. My hope is to begin to help educate them about designing maps, so that they can have a frame of reference as they learn about city planning in the future.

My rationale behind using Inspiration is that it provides features that reach many different types of learners audio, visual, tactile, and caters to children with a variety of disabilities. To help students see text and symbols you can vary the font or image size. For dealing with a class at different skill levels you can use the talking interface to read the text in menus, toolbars and dialog boxes.

6. Content

This lesson plan will deal with Geometry. The major concept of Similarity and Congruency will be our focus. The students will learn the meaning of them and how to classify two-dimensional into those two groups. There will other concepts in geometry they will revisit - parallel lines, perpendicular bisector, definitions of each shape, and angels.

Shapes include:
Quadrilaterals (Square and rectangles)
Triangle (Equilateral, right, and isosceles)
Pentagons
Hexagons

7. Instructional procedures

(15 Minutes). I will first have my students work on the inspiration program on geometry to find out what similar and congruent mean. This lesson consists of identifying geometric shapes and pairing them as either being similar or congruent.

(25 Minutes) Next I will have them design a city on inspiration. This city must contain at least three pairs of congruent and 3 pairs of similar shape buildings. Two of the streets must be parallel and one must be a perpendicular bisector or another. They will type what each geometrical shape is (example : square) and what it is similar/congruent to with an explanation why (example: square A is congruent to Square B because square A has sides length 1 and square B has side length 1).

8. Evaluation procedure

POST-assessment is built into the Inspiration data that I will collect at the end of their activity

9. Materials

Computers
Paper
Pencils

10. REFERENCES AND RESOURCES:

Discovery Education (2006), Discovering Math: Exploring Geometry. Discovery Education is a Division of Discovery Communications, Inc. https://elms.umd.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/co...

Math League (2006), Figures and Polygons. Math League is a division of Math League Press
http://www.mathleague.com/help/geometry/polygons.htm

Page, John (2007), Parallel and Perpendicular Lines. Math Open Reference.
http://www.mathopenref.com