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A lesson plan for grades 3–5 Mathematics

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Students play a game to learn about the four forces of flight: lift, drag, thrust, and weight. Illuminations provides an activity sheet and detailed instructions for completing the lesson.

Students will:

  • Identify and use the four forces of flight.
  • Collect, organize, and interpret data.
  • Construct tally table and bar graphs.
  • Determine the likeliness or probability of success.
  • Read and write ordered pairs.
  • Use ordered pairs to plot points on a grid.

NCTM Standards and Expectations:

Data Analysis & Probability 3-5

  • Collect data using observations, surveys, and experiments.
  • Recognize the differences in representing categorical and numerical data.

Geometry 3-5

  • Make and use coordinate systems to specify locations and to describe paths.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 3

  • Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will recognize and use basic geometric properties of two- and three-dimensional figures.
    • Objective 3.02: Use a rectangular coordinate system to solve problems.
      • Graph and identify points with whole number and/or letter coordinates.
      • Describe the path between given points on the plane.
  • Goal 4: Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will understand and use data and simple probability concepts.
    • Objective 4.01: Collect, organize, analyze, and display data (including circle graphs and tables) to solve problems.
    • Objective 4.02: Determine the number of permutations and combinations of up to three items.
    • Objective 4.03: Solve probability problems using permutations and combinations.

Grade 4

  • Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will recognize and use geometric properties and relationships.
    • Objective 3.01: Use the coordinate system to describe the location and relative position of points and draw figures in the first quadrant.
    • Objective 3.02: Describe the relative position of lines using concepts of parallelism and perpendicularity.
  • Goal 4: Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will understand and use graphs, probability, and data analysis.
    • Objective 4.01: Collect, organize, analyze, and display data (including line graphs and bar graphs) to solve problems.
    • Objective 4.03: Solve problems by comparing two sets of related data.
    • Objective 4.04: Design experiments and list all possible outcomes and probabilities for an event.

Grade 5

  • Goal 4: Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will understand and use graphs and data analysis.
    • Objective 4.01: Collect, organize, analyze, and display data (including stem-and-leaf plots) to solve problems.
    • Objective 4.02: Compare and contrast different representations of the same data; discuss the effectiveness of each representation.