Lesson ideas

Activities and Ideas for Years 7-10 

This is a random collection of resources that are still current


A while back Sandra Jim & I worked on the junior progressions. We  collated as much as we could onto a page and formatted for A3 by strand from level 2/3 to 5.  you can find them here.

If you are wondering what student work might look like from levels 1 - 5 have a look at the exemplars on the Learning Progression Framework.

Algebra

  • Introducing Linear algebra Link
  • Patterns & Expressions Link
  • Google Site Link


Number




Statistics
Collect live data from the Tour of Aotearoa
2018 Year of the Census - Take part in the NZ census and also in class complete the Census at School Survey
A few ideas to introduce statistics using problem solving process : Link
What it means to be a kiwi ( start with the bird using kiwi data from CAS then look at humans, a lesson sequence

Build students contextual knowledge for the kiwi data set from census at school with this clip



Probability
Mix of probability activities Link
Bang Goes the Theory Probability & Statistics (starts 8 minutes in)
(this contains 3 examples of well known probability experiments, stick or switch, birthday bingo & what is random?)



Geometry
Using geometry as a context to generalise Link
Pentominoes investigation Link



Measurement
Using the idea of "what is the first question that comes to mind?". Link
Prompts for estimating & measuring
How to measure a crocodile ( using man units)






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