Unit Plan: Integers
Math / Grade 7
Big Ideas
Computational fluency and flexibility with numbers extend to operations with integers and decimals.
Concepts:
- Quantity
- Change
- Balance
Essential Questions
Students will keep considering…
- What is balance?
- How do you achieve balance?
- How does change affect balance?
- How does change affect quantity?
Evaluative Criteria
N/A
Monitoring Progress
Teacher will monitor progress:
Teachers can monitor progress through ongoing formative assessment including but not limited to:
- Check ins
- Teacher observation
- Homework
- Quizzes
Resources
N/A
Reflection
How will teachers and their students reflect on and evaluate the completed project?
Teacher Reflection
- What aspects of the unit went well?
- What did students struggle with?
- What did you struggle with?
- What would you add/revise the next time you taught this unit?
- Were there any unintended outcomes?
- Were students engaged?
Downloads
Stage 2 – Evidence
Authentic Performance Tasks
AUTHENTIC PERFORMANCE TASK: Assessing for Understanding
Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding by:
- Unit test with competency based questions on (ask students to respond to Essential Questions and speak to the Unit Understandings)
GRASPS
What is a GRASPS task?
- Goal: To show your understanding of integer operations
- Role: You are a contest designer
- Audience: The people taking part in your contest
- Situation: You work for Crazy Contests Incorporated as a designer of skill testing questions. Your company has landed a big account that requires you to design 5 skill testing questions to be answered by people entering contests. If people can’t answer the question, they don’t win the prize, but the questions can’t be so easy that they don’t require much thought to answer.
- Product: Design five skill testing questions that use the order of operations and integers. You must also solve the questions, showing the process, so that contestant solutions can be verified.
Other Evidence
OTHER EVIDENCE: Assessing for Knowledge and Skills
Students will show they have acquired Stage 1 knowledge and skills by:
- Diamond papers linked to curricular competencies (see learning plan)
- Check ins
- Teacher observations
The following resources are made available through the British Columbia Ministry of Education. For more information, please visit BC’s New Curriculum.
Big Ideas
The Big Ideas consist of generalizations and principles and the key concepts important in an area of learning. The Big Ideas represent what students will understand at the completion of the curriculum for their grade. They are intended to endure beyond a single grade and contribute to future understanding.
Core Competencies
Communications Competency
The set of abilities that students use to impart and exchange information, experiences and ideas, to explore the world around them, and to understand and effectively engage in the use of digital media
Thinking Competency
The knowledge, skills and processes we associate with intellectual development
Social Competency
The set of abilities that relate to students’ identity in the world, both as individuals and as members of their community and society
Curricular Competencies & Content
Curricular Competencies are the skills, strategies, and processes that students develop over time. They reflect the “Do” in the Know-Do-Understand model of curriculum. The Curricular Competencies are built on the thinking, communicating, and personal and social competencies relevant to disciplines that make up an area of learning.
Additional Resources
First People's Principles of Learning
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For classroom resources, please visit the First Nations Education Steering Committee.
