Comparing Previous School Experience to my Unit

Instructional Category	Experiences from your time in school	Ideas for your unit
Acquisition	·      Being tested on if we know facts ·      Being able to recite the formula for an equation	·      Exit slip on what domain and range are ·      Quick activity on finding intercepts ·      Puzzle of matching functions with equations with the answers spelling something
Meaning	·      Explaining how a formula was found ·      Doing a proof for a concept ·      Discussing the ethical implications of a law	·      Paragraph on why the student chose their representation ·      Explaining how a zero is also an intercept
Transfer	·      Given an amount of fencing, determine the best shape to get the maximum area ·      Designing an experiment	·      Having the students pick the best way to represent different functions ·      Have them persuade the class to agree with them
Essential Questions (No single answer, open-ended)	·      Discussion of Hammurabi’s code of laws-why did he get to make them? ·      Socratic Seminar on if history tend to repeat itself or is different?	·      Why are functions important? ·      What are the pros and cons of different ways of representing functions?