Inquiry-Based Lessons and Laboratories Format
Each lesson consists of three parts, the lesson
plan, the laboratory, and the solution
The lesson plan is designed for the
teacher and consists of the following components:
- Lesson title with an optional introduction to
- Existing knowledge that students are presumed to
- The NCTM and/or the state strandards met by the lesson.
- The Learning objectives. The complexity of these
objectives will dictate the number of laboratories needed.
- Materials needed, if any.
- Suggested procedure
- Set attention getter
- Decide how to group the students, if a particular
method is recommended
- Optional review
The laboratory is designed for the
student and consists of:
- Lab title
- Team members’ names & file name
- Lab’s Goal(s)
- Consists of a guided procedure leading the
students through questions to investigate key properties, in every
stage of the construction, which propitiates the analysis of the
result under consideration.
- It should proceed through inquiry, and
take full advantage of the dynamic nature of this software promoting
as much as possible the “explore-discover-
- Students should be asked to summarize in their
own words each property found.
- Further refining of these summaries
will contribute to improve their mathematical writing and to better
understand the properties.
- Whenever possible the labs should include
extensions designed to challenge the best students.
- Applications to real world situations
involving the property being study should precede or follow the
is designed for the teacher; it aims to further clarify the
procedures and results that students are expected to find.
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