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GOOGLE MAPS
LESSON
By Jessi Van Buren
TARGET AUDIENCE
Teaneck, NJ
Class Period 54 Minutes
Thomas Jefferson Middle School
 Replacement Math Class
 7th Grade
 Class size 8
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Goals
 To make real world
connections between unit
rates through travel
 Expose students to a new
area of the United States
 Analyze distances
 Review area and composite
figure
Objectives
 Students will be able to find
the rates in minutes or
hours.
 Students will be able to find
the prices per person
 Students will be able to find
the shapes in a composite
figure in order to calculate
area.
ONE STOP
 Students must calculate the
rates in minutes and hours.
 Students must also look
through the pictures added to
find out what animal has taken
over the pier.
 Students must check out the
website and find the cost it is
for tickets for each person.
 Information on the website is
displayed in a table and they
must find the link to tickets.
BRAINY BITS
 The hippocampus should be
activated because students have
learned how to calculate areas
of irregular figures in 6th grade,
in 7th grade they are called
composite figures.
 The amygdala should be
engaged because students are
talking about a new location.
Many students in Teaneck do
not travel beyond their town.
Exposing them to new places
and experiences helps them
learn about the country.
PEDAGOGY PIECE– LEARNING STYLES
 Linguistic
 Reading information about
locations
 Visual Spatial
 Looking at tables to find prices
 Viewing pictures of places
 Logical Mathematical
 Calculating rates
 Finding total
REFERENCES
Sousa, David A. How the Brain Learns. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2006. Print.