Running head: DIRECT INSTRUCTION LESSON PLAN

Direct Instruction Lesson Plan

Tina Johnsen

EDU 220

Professor Hooks

March 5, 2017
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DIRECT INSTRUCTION LESSON PLAN

I. Describe the Class

Seventh Grade Math: 35 students, 4 LD students

II. Subject/Skill:

Seventh Grade Math: Adding Integers

III. Standard(s)/Objective(s)

7.NS.A.1b Understand p + q as the number located a distance |q| from p, in the

positive or negative direction depending on whether q is positive or negative. Show

that a number and its opposite have a sum of 0 (are additive inverses). Interpret sums

of rational numbers by describing real-world contexts.

7.NS.A.1d Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract rational

numbers.

1. Students will be able to use a number line to add integers with an accuracy of 80%.

2. After class discussion and journal notes, students will be able to understand and

explain the rules of adding integers.

3. By completing the exit task, students will demonstrate their understanding by

creating an integer story with a number line to represent their story by earning at least

a 2 on the grading rubric.

IV. Procedures

1) Introduce lesson with number line, have students help you create a number line on

the whiteboard. If they prompt to start at 0, lead into what happens if the number line

continues in this direction (-)? Talk about integers, +/- numbers. Ask for real world

examples of how we use positive and negative numbers.

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Students may give temps, money, sports, etc. Have them discuss an example of how it

can be + or in each situation.

2) Pass out warm up Thermometer worksheet. With little instruction, have students

fill in thermometer based on given information on worksheet. Use this time to move

around class to see how students fill in the thermometer and how they arrive at

current temperatures.

Students will work independently to complete warm up.

3) Have a group discussion about the worksheet, student questions or observations,

then have students turn to shoulder partner and discuss their answers and how they

solved them.

Students will share various ways of solving warm up.

4) Transition into lesson; tell the students that they used addition of integers to

complete the thermometer. By the end of the lesson the students will be able to

understand and add integers using a number line. Use Elmo to project Adding

Integers worksheet. Start working through problems as a class, calling on several

students to explain how they would solve different problems. +/+ first, then -/-, and

finally discuss what happens when you have 2 different signs.

Students will actively participate in solving addition of integers. Students may

observe and begin to comment on patterns and rules that they see.

5) Transition to independent work. Explain that they are ready to try a few problems

on their own. As the students work through the problems, they need to pay attention

to any patterns that they see. Students will need to transfer those patterns into rules

for adding integers. Pass out Number Line Practice worksheet.

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Students will complete worksheet independently.

6) Review worksheet and discuss, as a class, the rules that they have created. Prompt

students to take out their math journals and make a new section on Integers. Define

integers on vocabulary page and title a new page for Integer Operations, cut and glue

foldable and complete rule for addition.

Students will write rules for adding integers based on classroom discussion, but

worded in a way they are comfortable with. Students that finish quickly help those

that may still need to finish.

V. Materials

Smart Board or Elmo, Thermometer worksheet, Adding Integers Printout, Number

Line Practice Worksheet, math journals, pencils, scissors and glue, scratch paper

Bolin, L. (2009, Apr 22). Adding Integers On the Number Line Record. Utah

Education Network. Retrieved from

http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=23406

Bolin, L. (2009, Apr 22). Adding Integers On A Number Line Practice. . Utah

Education Network. Retrieved from

http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=23406

Miles. (2016). Integer Operations Foldable. Teachers Pay Teachers. Retrieved from

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Integer-Operations-Foldable-

1399815

VI. Grouping Structures

Direct instruction, students will work independently at desks. As instructed, may turn

to discuss findings with shoulder partners.

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VII. Modifications

Modification for LD learners would include preprinted vocabulary sheets to glue into

math journals, students will highlight vocabulary without falling behind trying to

write all notes. Story problem portion of the exit task could be administered verbally.

Calculators may be used for those that have that accommodation.

VIII. Closure/Assessment

The lesson will end by students completing an exit task for dismissal. Explain that the

exit task is similar to the thermometer worksheet. Review how the temperature

changed up (+) and down (-), starting at one temperature and ending at another. The

students need to come up with an integer story that contains 4 events involving + and

number changes. They will also need to draw and label a number line that

represents their story.

Students will complete their exit task on scratch paper and turn in before leaving

class.