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Lesson Idea Name: Are you negative or positive?

Content Area: Mathematics
Grade Level(s): 7th grade
Content Standard Addressed: MGSE7.NS.1 Apply and extend previous understandings of addition and
subtraction to add and subtract rational numbers; represent addition and subtraction on a horizontal or
vertical number line diagram.
Technology Standard Addressed: 5. Computational Thinker Students develop and employ strategies for
understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop
and test solutions. Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop
descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.

Selected Technology Tool:

☒ Movie (list application): Adobe Sparks
☐ Audio (list application):
☐ Other: (list)
URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating ☐ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

☒ Level 1: Awareness ☒ Level 2: Exploration ☐ Level 3: Infusion ☐ Level 4: Integration
☐ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

Engagement: Provide options for recruiting interest—minimize threats and distractions
Students will be engaging in the video, watching for real-world facts. That will minimize distractions and the
content of the video will interest students.
Representation: Provide options for perception
There is both audio and visual parts to the video and that will show information in both formats of audio and
visual. Then students are engaging in writing which is connecting the information with themselves.
Action and Expression: Provide options for expression and communication
Having students discuss in their small groups then in whole class discussion, students will also be writing
down important facts from the video. These are two different ways to communicate what students have
learned from the video.

Lesson idea implementation:

Students will be watching the video and writing down real world facts that the student didn’t know before.
The teacher will be walking around the groups of students to ensure that students are focused on the video
and write facts down. At the end of the video, there are problems for students to work through individually
and then discuss in a group. The teacher will gather the groups together for a whole class discussion and
summarize what they have learned from the video and the group discussions. The lesson will be complete in
one class period of 50 minutes. The students’ learning will be assessed with the summarizing class discussion,
the work of the problems, and the real-world facts that the students write down during the video.
The final product is students writing down and participating in a class discussion at the summary portion of
class. The final product can be used to inform the teacher what students are understanding, remembering,

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and applying their knowledge of the concept to a discussion. The teacher can use this information of the final
product to make decisions on reteach, move on forward, or just review a little then move on. This lesson can
be extended for students to create their own real-world problem using the facts they learned from the video
and their understanding of negative and positive numbers.

Importance of technology:
Using the video for this lesson is important and critical because it presents the necessary information about
the concept in a way that students want to listen to. It is just not you as the teacher standing in front of the
class lecturing students about positive and negative numbers and the operations associated with them. This
lesson could be done without the video, but it would not get students as engaged as well.

Internet Safety and Student Privacy:

There are possible safety issues surrounding the Internet and Internet usage with students. There are many
great and informational videos on YouTube and the internet in general but due to the nature of advisements
there might be content that we as society don’t want young students to be exposed to. That is why the videos
should be downloaded on the hard drives of laptops or computers. Doing this will prevent students from
seeing content that is not appropriate for students.

Reflective Practice:
After designing this lesson idea, I feel that this activity could impact student learning by engaging with students in a
format that students are very familiar with receiving information. The information of the concept is introduced to
students through the media format of a video. Students are continually watching movies, TV shows, YouTube shows, and
videos created by friends. Using that format to share information with students will have the students engaged and
willing to watch the video.

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