Kaitlin Blundy

Fake Lesson Plan: Presentations

Lesson Date and Time: Monday and Tuesday, Days 11 and 12 of unit
Number of Students: 32
Length of Lesson: 100 minutes (2 days)
Materials: Rubrics, individual presentation materials
Lesson Objective: My eighth grade mathematics students will demonstrate their
understanding of solving systems of linear equations through a presentation to the rest
of the class.
Standards Addressed: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.EE.C.7-8
Presentation time per student: 2-4 minutes
After spending two days working on their project, students will present their poster
board/PowerPoint/TI-NSpire project to the rest of the class for about 3 minutes. They
must follow the rubric guidelines, which were distributed when the project began.
Audience members must also provide a review of each presentation, and this review will
be graded based upon the rubric for audience members.

Rubric for Presenters

Feel free to be as creative as you want. You can choose to present with a PowerPoint,
Prezi, TI-NSpire, or poster board. The project can be turned in on lined paper for
grading. However, this rubric is based upon the following aspects being present in a
presentation to the class. All of the following aspects must be included and wellexplained during the presentation days.
4

Student is
prepared
(poster board,
computer
presentation,
etc.)
Part 1: Creating
Equations

Prepared

Mostly
Prepared

Hardly
Prepared

Unprepared

2 Equations
with
Coefficients

Missing 1
aspect

Missing two or
more aspects

Non-Existent

Part 2:
Graphing

Both lines
graphed with a
clear solution
Equations are
combined with
a clear solution

Missing two or
more aspects/
Incorrect
process
Missing two or
more aspects/
Incorrect
process

Non-Existent

Part 3:
Substitution

Missing 1
aspect/
Incorrect
aspects
Missing 1
aspect/
Incorrect
aspects

Non-Existent

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Part 4:
Elimination

Complete
elimination with
clear solution

Part 5:
Rationale

Method is
chosen and
supported

Explanation

Thorough and
understandable
explanation

Missing 1
aspect/
Incorrect
aspects
Method is not
well-supported

Missing two or
more aspects/
Incorrect
process
Method is not
supported

Non-Existent

Some
Explanation

Little
Explanation

No Explanation

Non-Existent

Rubric for Audience Members

Audience members are expected to critique the presentation and turn in said critique to
the teacher for review. The critique will be evaluated as follows:
3

Evaluates
presentation
technique

Thoroughly
explained

Sufficiently
explained

Non-Existent

Evaluates
correctness of
content

Explains why
States
solution is
correctness/
correct/incorrect incorrectness

Non-Existent

Responds to
the rationale

States opinion
of rationale and
explains
reasoning

Non-Existent

States opinion
of rationale