STEPP Lesson Plan Form

Teacher: Laura Nestler Date:

1-26-17

School: Windsor Middle School Grade Level: 7th

Content Area: Math

Title: Simple Interest 7.1.8

Lesson #: 10 of 11

Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson: (Write Content Standards

directly from the standard)

Solve problems involving percent of a number, discounts, taxes, simple interest,

percent increase, and percent decrease (PFL)

Understandings: (Big Ideas)

Students will gain a better understanding of what interest is and how it can be
calculated.

Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of

instruction, select applicable questions from standard)

What is interest?

Is the loan amount growing by the same amount each week?

What would the scale factor be in this case.

Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)

Every student will be able to: (Create your own lesson objectives from the
standard, follow the ABCD format, using student voice)

I can: analyze what the different parts of an interest problem represent,

and solve for the total amount that is owed by writing an equation.

This means: I will be able to complete the Rally Coach activity.

List of Assessments: (Write the number of the learning target associated with
each assessment)

I will assess students understanding through the warm up as well as the rally coach
activity.

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Planned Lesson Activities

Name and Purpose of Lesson INTEREST!!
Should be a creative title for you and the The purpose of todays class is for students to gain a better
students to associate with the activity. understanding of what interest is and how you can calculate simple
Think of the purpose as the mini-rationale interest of loans.
for what you are trying to accomplish
through this lesson.
Approx. Time and Materials Warm up 10 minutes
How long do you expect the activity to What is interest? 5 minutes
last and what materials will you need? Class Demo 10 minutes
Rally Coach 35 minutes

Rally Coach Activity Sheet.

Anticipatory Set They anticipatory set for this lesson will be an in class discussion about
The hook to grab students attention. what interest is and why it is important! This will show students how
These are actions and statements by the math is applied to different parts of every day life. I am going to show
teacher to relate the experiences of the students a quick 3-minute animated video about what an interest rate
students to the objectives of the lesson, is to try and grab their attention!
To put students into a receptive frame of
mind.
To focus student attention on the
lesson.
To create an organizing framework
for the ideas, principles, or
information that is to follow
(advanced organizers)
An anticipatory set is used any time a
different activity or new concept is to be
introduced.
Procedures Teacher Actions Student Actions
(Include a play-by-play account of what I will have the learning target up Students will grab their chrome
students and teacher will do from the on the board. books and pull up their daily
minute they arrive to the minute they agendas
leave your classroom. Indicate the length I will award points in class dojo to

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of each segment of the lesson. List actual help get students on task Students will be working on their
minutes.) warm up problem.
Indicate whether each is: I am going to show a quick video
-teacher input about what interest is. Students will pay attention to the
-modeling video on the screen.
-questioning strategies I will demonstrate 7-86 on the
-guided/unguided: board using a table. I will award a Students will be recording what I
-whole-class practice dojo point for every student who put on the board in their
-group practice shows me it in his or her notes, for notebooks.
-individual practice following directions.
-check for understanding
-other I will have students complete the
rally coach activity with a partner. Students will participate in the
Awarding them completed work rally coach activity for 7-88
points if they finish.

Closure For closure I will have students discuss what interest is and how you
Those actions or statements by a teacher can calculate it for a certain amount of time.
that are designed to bring a lesson
presentation to an appropriate conclusion.
Used to help students bring things
together in their own minds, to make
sense out of what has just been taught.
Any Questions? No. OK, lets move on is
not closure. Closure is used:
To cue students to the fact that
they have arrived at an important
point in the lesson or the end of a
lesson.
To help organize student learning
To help form a coherent picture and to
consolidate.
Differentiation
To modify: If the activity is too advanced
for a child, how will you modify it so that
they can be successful?

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To extend: If the activity is too easy for a

child, how will you extend it to develop
their emerging skills?
Assessment Warm up I am looking for students to have two different values and
How will you know if students met the diagrams for part a and b of problem 78.
learning targets? Write a description of
what you were looking for in each Rally Coach Activity- I am looking for students to complete and turn in
assessment. activity by the end of class.

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Rally Coach

Person A Person B
Based on the How is the
table, how amount of
much will the money that
student council student council
borrow? owes changing
each week?
How much will How much will
the student the student
council owe council owe
after 3 weeks? after 4 weeks?
What is the What scale
percent factor would
interest? you multiply
your original
price by?
How would you If they do not
write an pay off the
equation for loan by the
how you can end of the
find the school year

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interest for any they will owe

number of 1500 dollars,
weeks? how many
weeks of
school are left?

Numb Total
er of Calculations Loan
Weeks Amount
0
1
2
3
4
8

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