Beyond-the-Basic Productivity Tools (BBPT)

Lesson Idea Name: Coordinate Plane Popplet

Content Area/Grade level: 6th grade Math

Content Standard Addressed:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.C.6.C
Find and position integers and other rational numbers on a horizontal or vertical number line
diagram; find and position pairs of integers and other rational numbers on a coordinate plane.

Technology Standard Addressed:

5c. Break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to
understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving

6d. Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended
audiences
Selected Technology Tool: Popplet

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): https://popplet.com

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):

The representation component of this lesson is shown through the use of an online graphic organizer that
students create. There are endless ways for them to use this graphic organizer to show what they know
about the coordinate plane.
The action/expression component allows students with multiple forms of expression through adding text,
images, and drawings to their graphic organizer.
The engagement portion of this assignment is seen through the use of an online graphic organizer that is
engaging and user friendly, allowing students easy access and ability to stay on task.
Lesson idea implementation:
Students will Show their understanding of the coordinate plane through the use of popplet, an online graphic
organizer. Students will cover a series of important facts about the coordinate plane in their own unique ways
and share their organizers with their classmates. The teacher will be around to answer questions and help
guide the students in creating their product. The teacher will also facilitate an around the room presentation
of these organizers to have students look at how everyone describes the important components of the
coordinate plane. In a prior lesson, the teacher will introduce the subject of coordinate planes to the students
along with key vocabulary. The following lesson, the teacher will introduce popplet to the students, and have
them start creating their own graphic organizer about coordinate planes. The teacher instructs the students
to include images drawings and students understanding in their own words to create a graphic organizer that
is unique and personal to every student. The lesson/task should take about two class periods, one to create
and one to present and discuss.

The students will be assessed by a grading rubric as well as receive peer feedback on what other students
found interesting as well as had room for more information. This final product will be differentiated in the
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sense that every student has an opportunity to show their own individual understanding in their own unique
way- the students are not just limited to the basic topics, but they can include their own findings on the
coordinate plane that they want to incorporate- providing as much scaffolding or extension as the students
need. This lesson will be concluded with a classroom presentation, where the students will walk around the
room and make note(s) on at least 3 person’s presentations. As a whole, the class will come up with the best
representations of the coordinate plane based off of the students creations guided by the teacher. The
teacher will post the student links so that students can go back and refence the organizers to help them study
or apply their knowledge in the future.

Reflective Practice:
As a result of this lesson, I feel that students creating their own products greatly impacts their understanding
since it is personal and close to them. The students are then held accountable to presenting/sharing what
they found most helpful to understand the concepts of the coordinate plane, and therefore help influence the
class by bringing in a variety of representations of one product. With this in mind, students are having more
of a personal application of the lesson to their lives, and so it will “stick” with them longer than working on a
worksheet about the coordinate plane. To extend this lesson, students can go back and edit their popplet
webs after reviewing the other students’ to include what new thing that they found helpful to understanding
the coordinate plane.

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