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Dream House Dice Game

Incorporating STEM in Program Planning

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Lesson plan developed by Aurora Tollestrup, BS Ed

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Activity:  

Dream House Dice Game

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Age Group:

• School-age

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Objectives:  

• Students will practice multiplication skills as they apply to the measurement of area

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Washington State Common Core Standard

3.0A _

• Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.

5. Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.
a. A square with side length 1 unit, called “a unit square,” is said to have “one square unit” of area, and can be used to measure area.

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Materials: 

• Graph paper
• 2 dice
• Pencils

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Procedure: 

1. Divide students into pairs. Each student should have a sheet of graph paper and a pencil.
2. Students will wake turns rolling the dice. Students will then record the numbers that were rolled by graphing them in area form on the graph paper (see photo). Students should write the equation in the square as well (ex: 2x2=4).
3. After five minutes of playing the game, students will work independently to turn those squares into a sketch of the layout of their dream house!
4. After students have created their dream homes, they will meet with their partners and compare homes, checking for correct “room sizes” (products) as a result of their rolled numbers.

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Assessment: 

•    Record the accuracy of the multiplication fact use during the game.

Extension:
Have students use those pages as a rough draft to create a colorized, final product where students can decorate and add details to their dream homes. 

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School-Age Lesson Plans

STEM Lesson Plans

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Mathematics

Look Out Below

“Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences.” –Roger Bacon

Mathematics, or math, is the study of numbers. This may include patterns, equations, systems, and shapes. The study of math links many different subjects together and can be seen in the natural world as well as in the manmade world. This makes it such an important subject to learn and be comfortable with.

When including STEM mathematics instruction in your program, it is important to link this with real-world applications. This is one of the things that sets STEM math apart from standard classroom math. Instead of the standard arithmetic lessons, a STEM math lesson will usually involve a partner or group project and be included in an engineering or design process. STEM math doesn’t always have one correct answer, but instead, students are using math skills to create, design, solve, or question something.

How to include STEM math lessons in your program:

• Encourage the use of math to solve problems during other processes.
• Support math skill exploration.
• Use math games to exercise math skills of all kinds.
• Connect the current activities in you program with real-world math concept.

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