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Lesson Idea

Lesson Idea Name: Counting and Cardinality

Grade Level/Content Area: Kindergarten
Content Standard Addressed: MGSEK.CC.5a Count to answer “how many?” questions about as
many as 20 things arranged in a variety of ways (a line, a rectangular array, or a circle), or as many as
10 things in a scattered configuration.
ISTE Technology Standard Addressed:  What would you like students to know and
Empowered Learner Standard be able to do by the end of this lesson:
1.1a: Students articulate and set personal
learning goals, develop strategies Count to answer “how many?” questions.
leveraging technology to achieve them
and reflect on the learning process itself
to improve learning outcomes.

What is the student learning goal for this lesson idea?

I can count to answer “how many?” questions as many as 20 things in an array and
10 things that are scattered.

Selected Instructional Software Tool: Math Game Time and PowerPoint

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):
https://www.mathgametime.com/games/count-the-cubes

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Level(s):

X Remembering X Understanding X Applying ☐ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating X Creating

How will this lesson be implemented? Check all that apply.

X Teacher-directed: There is no student voice and choice in the activities. Students are guided by the
teacher's direction and expectations.

X Student-Led: Students are given voice and choice in the activities. They may select the topic for
presentation and/or determine the tool they will use to meet the learning goal. Products of
learning will be uniquely designed. Teacher simply facilitates the learning in a lesson like this.

☐ Project-based and/or Publishable: Students are completing projects to demonstrate their learning
and the projects can be shared outside of the classroom. This objective could be reached by
displaying the project on the school’s morning newscast, posting the project to the classroom
blog, presenting it to another class, or publishing it via an outside source.
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Lesson idea implementation:

At the beginning of class I will go over what the agenda is for the day and go through
what goals I have set up for each lesson. Then during the math portion of the day, I
will split the class in half. I will have 2 stations set up for the groups to rotate through.
One station I will have the students on the computer playing this math game. I will
have them play this game a few times (for about 10-15 minutes) through to help them
understand the concept (the game tells you if you get the answer correct). Then
another station will be at a table with some worksheets for them to complete. Once
the 2 groups are done with both stations, I will have the class come back together and
we will do a little assignment on the board where I pull up a PowerPoint presentation
with different problems and they have to come up and count the images to get the
answer. I would also have the students draw a picture (for example of their favorite
candies) that I could add to a slide to create a new eBook. Then I will record them
counting items first set up I an array, but then scattered, and make note of their
progress.

Managing engagement: Describe a way to use this technology in a way that gets students
actively involved in authentic tasks and contexts?

The students will have time-on-task with continued focus on the learning goal. Also
giving them a time limit as to how long they will be at each station before coming back
together as a class.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Math Game Time and the presentation will support
and enhance the learning experience of students because it allows students to
actively count how many squares/objects there are and giving them feedback
immediately. The activities I have planned will support all students because some students
learn better by just completing worksheets. While other students learn better by doing. This
tool supports the engagement because actively playing a game is more fun than just sitting
and listening to the teacher.

Reflecting on enhanced learning:

I feel like this activity will impact student learning because they’re all not just sitting
down and doing the same thing. They are up and moving to the stations, then coming
together as a class. I am looking forward to implementing the Math Game Time part
because I am interested to see what other games, they offer that I could potentially
use in a different lesson.
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