Amazing Alice Cookies

Lesson Content

• Lesson Plan Template:

  Model Eliciting Activity (MEA)

• Formative Assessment

  
  

  Use these questions after students read Reading Passage 1.

  1. Who is the client?
  2. What is the client's problem?
  3. What does the client want from you?

• Feedback to Students

  
  

  Use these questions to gauge understanding when students are working in their groups. These questions are meant to help guide the groups thinking.

  1. What do you need to create to solve Amazing Alice Cookies problem?
  2. What things does Alice want in your letter?
  3. What might be difficult about solving this problem?

• Summative Assessment

  
  

  Use this rubric to grade students writing.
  Rubric for Scoring Student Responses
  
  Use this link for a Presentation Form that students can use to rate each other during the group presentations.
  https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/Research/SGMM/CASESTUDIESKIDSWEB/basics.htm#Assessment

• Learning Objectives

  
  
  • Students will write a letter with a target audience in mind.
  • Students will compare fractions with different denominators all of which belong to the same whole.
  • Students will compare decimals.

• Prior Knowledge

  
  
  • Students should have a basic understanding of fractions.
  • Students should have an understanding of decimal place value.
  • Students should be able write for an audience.

• Instructional Suggestions

  
  

  Part 1 (Day 1 and 2)

  1. Ask students the formative assessment questions (see Formative Assessment) and provide a review if needed.
  2. Students receive Amazing Alice Cookies Letter 1 (Reading Passage 1) and Amazing Alice Cookies data set 1.
  3. The teacher can ask the readiness/comprehension questions (see Readiness questions) to the class or have students complete them individually on paper. After students understand the task, they can begin to work in teams of approximately 3-4.
  4. In teams, students work on the problem and respond to the client with therequesteddeliverables.
     • As students are working, the teacher circulates to each team to ask the first set of Guiding/Reflective Questions and address any issues that may arise.
     • Teachers can provide guidance using the reflective questions to help students determine the important factors and start thinking about how they can present their solution.

  Part 2 (Day 3)

  1. Students receive the Amazing Alice Cookies letter 2 (Reading Passage 2), Amazing Alice Cookies data set 2, Taste Tested Chocolate Chips data dataset 2 (found in Dataset 2 section), along with their work from part 1.
  2. Teams test, evaluate, and revise their first procedure as necessary with theseconddataset and provide therequesteddeliverables as specified in the second letter.
     • If teams finish early, they can begin preparing their presentations.
     • After all of the teams have completed their second letters to the client, the teams will present their results to the rest of the class. Peer critique using the Peer Presentation Rubric (see Summative Assessment, Peer Rubric) and classroom discussion to follow.

• Guiding/reflective Questions

  
  
  • What do you think makes a good chocolate chip?
  • Is it better to have more or less chocolate chips in a cookie?

• Reading Passage 1

  
  

  Amazing Alice Cookies Letter 1

• Readiness Questions

  
  

  You can use these questions in addition to the formative questions after students read Amazing Alice Cookies Letter 1.

  1. What is the problem?
  2. Who is the client?
  3. What is the client asking your team to do?

• Data Set 1

  
  

  Give students this document after reading client letter 1.
  
  Amazing Alice Cookies Data Set 1

• Letter Template 1

  
  

  Use this template for students who need to be guided during the writing process.
  
  Amazing Alice Cookies Letter Template 1

• Comprehension/readiness questions

  
  

  Use these questions after students receive data set 1.

  1. What data do you have?
  2. How will you use the data to develop your procedure?

• Reading Passage 2

  
  

  Amazing Alice Cookies Letter 2

• Data Set 2

  
  

  Give students these documents after giving them Amazing Alice Cookies Letter 2.
  
  Amazing Alice Cookies Data Set 2

  Taste Tested Chocolate Chips Data 2

• Letter Template 2

  
  

  Use this template for students who need to be guided during the writing process.
  
  Amazing Alice Cookies Letter Template 2

• Reflection question 2

  
  
  1. What new information were we given?
  2. How will this impact your procedure?
  3. What information should you focus on?