Exciting Instructional Strategies for the 2014 GED® Test

Orange You Glad?

October 16, 2013Achieving Credentials for Success Conference

Appleton, WI

Meagen Farrell

Author, trainer, consultantGED® Test prep instructor

@farrellinkFacebook.com/farrell.inkFarrellink.com

Agenda

1. Facilitating engaging lessons: “Orange You Glad?”

2. Create your own interdisciplinary lesson plan.

3. Questions & Answers.

Rules for the Road

• Stay with the group! Don’t get distracted by your mobile device or side conversations.

• Questions? Yes, please! Just raise your hand and tell me your name & location.

Content from Real Life Scenarios

Reasoning through

Language ArtsScience

Social Studies Mathematical Reasoning

My Two Cents on Teaching Adults

• GED® test prep programs are like marathon training programs at a gym.

• Single-subject instruction is like running alone on the treadmill, day after day.

• Interdisciplinary group instruction is like working out with a team.

InterdisciplinaryGroup

Instruction

Facilitating Engaging Lessons:Orange You Glad?

Field Tested in Cleveland, Ohio

Interdisciplinary Lesson

Eating Fruit

Mathematics content

Use the Formula

Sheet

Measure and Calculate

Write a Word

Problem

Who Gets to Use the Knife?

• Using a Ruler• Surface Area & Volume of a

Sphere• Pi, Radius, and Diameter

Before We Start

• Use a ruler to measure the diameter of a half orange.

• Use the measurement to calculate the volume and surface area.

• Create a word problem using students’ names and measurement.

Activity

Create a Chart

Name Measurement

Daphne 2.5 inches

Louisa 2.25 inches

Anthony 2.75 inches

Use the Formula Sheet

Graphic Organizer!

Sequence the Steps

“Annie buys five oranges with a diameter of 2.25 inches. How much is the total surface area of the peels?”

Create a Word Problem

Questions?

Your Turn! Create Your Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan

• Each person should have a blank lesson plan template and a completed example.

• Get in groups of four to six people.• Designate one person as the recorder to write

down the lesson.

Questions?

Take It Home

• The PowerPoint and handout is available for view or download at my website: farrellink.com

• You have permission to use these workshop materials in your program as long as you attribute Meagen Farrell and New Readers Press.

Thank You!

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