Author:
Kevin Yates
Subject:
Data and Analysis, Non-fiction
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Level:
Upper Primary, Middle School
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    Language:
    English
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    Education Standards

    Select a Car for a Road Trip via Automobile Brochures

    Select a Car for a Road Trip via Automobile Brochures

    Overview

    This lesson is part of a unit based on a road trip.  In this lesson students use the given website to research diffrent attributes of cars and trucks that would make them desirable choices.  

    Lesson Plan

    Lesson Plan

    Grade Level: _6th_ Subject: _English_ Unit of Study: _Non Fiction / average / collect and organize data__ Unit:  _Road trip_ Lesson:  _1-1_

    Daily Lesson Objective:

     

    By the end of the lesson students will be able to examine information in automobile brochures to collect data on gas mileage, from multiple automobiles, to use as a data point in making the decision to purchase a automobiles to drive on their road trip. 


     

    Virginia Standard(s) of Learning:

    English

    6.6 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of nonfiction texts.

    1. Skim materials using text features such as type, headings, and graphics to predict and categorize information.

                   (e)  Draw conclusions and make inferences based on explicit and implied information.

                   (j)  Analyze ideas within and between selections, providing textual evidence.

     

    Computer Science

    6.8 The student will use computational tools to collect, organize, and clean data to make it more useful and reliable. 

    Warm Up/Hook:      Time 3-5 minutes

     

    Time: 5 minutes

    Begin the lesson with a conversation with students about trips they have taken.  Some trips can be longer than others.  Guide the discussion to vacation type trips.  Ask the students, how much they know about planning that goes into going on a vacation.  Emphasise  the cost of gas, lodging, food, and activities that need to be planned so a vacation trip can stay within budget.  Explaining over the next couple of weeks we will be focusing on the process of planning a trip.  Students will first pick automobiles as the mode of transportation.  Students can pick any automobiles they wish but will need to explain the reasoning for their choice. 


     

    Learning Plan/Activities:

     

    Time: 15 minutes

    Expand on responses from students, telling them that today’s focus will be on automobiles students will drive on their trip.  They will be selecting their automobiles based upon brochures found on this website.  Many considerations will have to be made (car or truck, engine type and gas mileage).  Inform the students that  although the cost of an automobile will not be factored into the budget for the trip, many considerations should be made as to determining their choice, because their trip budget will be $3000 dollars total.  Within the $3000 budget students will have to pay for gas, lodging, food, and activities.

     

    Activity/Practice (Student Actions):

    Time:  30 - 45 minutes

    Teacher Instructs the student to navigate to the Auto-brochures website.  The teacher should pick a brochure to display for the class to use as an example of what students should look for:  How many passengers can it hold?  What safety options do automobiles offer?  What is the gas mileage of the automobiles?  The teacher should bring attention to the text structure of the brochure to the students.  Making sure the students notice how the author uses bold text, pictures, font size and word choices to convey their message.

     

    The teacher will display a sample page from a digital journal entry that will demonstrate how students should organize their information about the automobiles they pick to choose from.  

     

    The student will work independently or in a small group to review the auto brochures and record in their digital journal the following things about 3 automobiles.  Emphasis they are a lot of brochures and students need to focus their search and research only on the newest model listed for a particular automobile.

     

    Make and Model of the Automobile.

    Number of passengers 

    Safety options

    Preferred Amenities

    Engine Type

    Gas mileage (Both City and Highway)



     

    Differentiation:

    Tier 1 (High)

    Tier 2 (Middle)

    Tier 3 (Low)

     

    Whole Group




     
     

    Whole Group

     

    Read aloud

     

    for information on how to turn on read aloud on an IPad Click Here

     

    Chrome extension for screen reading is “Read Aloud”  and can be found in the Chrome Web Store

    Closure:

     

    Time:  5 minutes

    Students write a short paragraph in their digital journal describing their automobile choice and why.


     

    Assessment:

    Formative

    Summative

     

    Classroom discussions/ observations

    Digital Journal


     
     

    Resources:

     

    Auto-brochures

     

    Digital Journal

    Materials:

     

    Smart panel or classroom digital display (projector or large screen TV)

     

    Internet capable device



     

    Vocabulary:

     

    •font

    •italics

    •bold print

    •colored print

    •bullets

    •titles

    •headings

    •subheadings

    •labels

    •sidebars

    •text boxes

    •captions

    •diagrams

    •graphs

    •comparisons

    •figures

    •charts

    •tables