ChristinaLeonard

Unit Plan Lesson

My name is Christina Leonard and I am a mathematics teaching major and also plan to coach basketball at the high school level as I begin teaching in the schools.

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The name of my explorative lesson was Spherical Geometry for grades 8-12 clearly dealing with Geometry specifically in the area of spherical geometry. The students are to cooperate in groups pairs to encourage dialogue and thinking in exploring first the characteristics of euclidean geometry and then spherical geometry specifically in the area of triangles. After working together and given google earth to explore and expand their thinking, the class is to meet again as a whole and discuss their findings. What I liked about the lesson was allowing them to work in pairs come up with conclusions and inferences on their own while later discussing as a whole. A weakness I found in the lesson was there was no prior knowledge recollection to gear the students in the right direction. If I were to make changes to the lesson I would meet as a whole at the beginning and in the middle of the lesson to help make sure that the students are all headed in the right direction and on task.