| Lesson Title | Content Focus | Language Objective | Language Type |
| Estimating Steps | measurement, estimation, scale | SWBAT use problem-specific vocabulary such as “destination” and use academic language such as the terms exact, estimate, about, at least, and reasonable. | grammar and language structures, key vocab |
| Measure Investigation | metric measure, problem solving | SWBAT Articulate observations about metric measurements, use metric pre-fixes and vocabulary: Milli-, centi-, kilo-, capacity, and summarize what they have learned in a lesson. | key vocab, language function |
| Data Mix Up for 2009 ATOMIC Conference | data analysis | SWBAT use language frame to explain why they paired graphs with titles. SWBAT write “news” stories based on the graphs they piece together describing the trends in the graphs. Key Vocabulary: graph, x-axis, y-axis, title, trend, scale |
Language Functions; key vocab |
| Glad to Meet You | Patterns, data analysis | SWBAT explain the way the pattern works.
SWBAT introduce themselves. Key words: Pattern, Solution, Dot Pattern |
language functions, key voacb |
| Pool Problem | reading graphs, interpretting slope | Students will be able to generate definitions in their own words for the vocabulary words.
Students will be able to verbally explain how they got their answers on the task. Given a graph, students will be able to describe the graph in words. Students will be able to work on explaining their thinking and recording in words how to walk to match a given graph. |
language skill, language functions |