Week 6 - Cross Content

In observing in the middle school this week (7th grade Pre-Algebra) I Social Studies teacher cam over and asked for myself and/or cooperating teacher to review a worksheet that was embedded into his lesson plan to ensure the answers were correct on his key, but also how we got to the answer, so he could better understand if the students had an incorrect answers, or they were stuck with how to process the information in getting the correct answer.  The content was on World War 1 and how soldiers had to dig trenches on the battlefield.  It gave some small information like it took one minute for four shovels, and (I think it was) those four shovels were equal to one cubic foot of dirt.  From there were the questions like: "How many soldiers would it take...", "If one solider dug...", etc.  I felt it was fairly extensive in Math for a social studies lesson, but I also found it great for the heavy cross content within the lesson.  I feel that is my week area to blend multiple contents in one lesson.  I have some project based ideas that will bring ELA in, but that's about it right now.

Wk 5 Lesson Plan