Western Branch High School

LESSON PLAN

Date(s): 01/12/2015 Monday

Subject: Algebra1 part 1
Teacher: Susan Land
SOL/CCO: A.2 The student will perform operations on polynomials Grade: 9 Estimated Time: 90 minutes
Including: Applying the laws of exponents to perform operations on expressions.
Objectives:

The student will use the laws of exponents to simplify monomials.

Previous SOL Information: 2014 WBHS Fall SOL Test

Data not available at this time.
Essential Vocabulary: Exponent, power, base
Literacy Strategy:

1. Read the following to your students: "The CyberSquad tries to escape from a deserted island where Hacker has
stranded them. They have been told that a particular tree will help them escape. They find one lily pad and wonder
how they can use the lily pads to reach the nearest island, which is 128 lily pads away."
2. Tell the students that they will watch a video clip to see how the CyberSquad escapes from the deserted island.
Ask students to focus on what the CyberSquad notices about the increasing number of lily pads and how this will
help them escape.

Materials/Resource: SMART Notebook, SMART Board, laptop computer, document camera, notebook paper,
writing instruments, worksheets
Anticipatory Set:

daily warm up
Mystery word: A definition is placed on the board when students arrive to class. They are to
use their book glossary to find the word.
A number that shows repeated multiplication

Direct Teaching:
1. Warm up
2. Mystery word
3. CyberSquad story
4.
Lily pad video
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/vtl07.math.number.exp.lilyescape/lily-pad-escape/
5. Handout 1

Working With Exponents" Handout

Mathematicians found a means to abbreviate repeated multiplication. Instead of writing: 2 x 2 x

2 x 2 x 2, they write 25
The 2 is called the base and the 5 is called the exponent. The base is number that is repeatedly
multiplied, and the exponent tells how many times to multiply the base times itself.
In the video clip the CyberSquad made a table of values that described the number of lily pads
after each doubling. The beginning of the table of values is reproduced below. Complete the
middle row of the table below.

Number of
Doublings

Number of
Lily Pads

Number of
Lily Pads
written in
exponential
form

20

21

22

Because the number of lily pads is constantly doubled, each of the numbers in the bottom row
can be written as the number 2 raised to some exponent. In the bottom row write each number
of lily pads using exponential form.

"Working With Exponents" Handout

page 2
Evaluate (determine the numerical value of) the following expressions which use exponents.

1. 24
2. 32
3. 53
4. 1100
5. 102
6. 103
7. 42
8. Does 23 = 32? Justify your answer.
6. Notes Review of Exponents

Exploring Exponents
Name Date
1. Explore multiplying exponents with the same base by completing the table below. Use
Column 2 rewritten
the last two rows to write your own examples. Column 1 rewritten
in exponential form
in expanded form
23 25
222
28
22222
45 42
31 36
x4 x7
7. Assessment level A:

The Use of Exponents

Assessment Level A
1. Convert the following expressions to their exponential form.
a. 10 x 10 x 10

b. 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1
c. 4 x 4 x 4 x 4
d. 7 x 7 x 7
e. 11 x 11
f. a x a x a
2. Evaluate (determine the numerical value of) the following exponential expressions.
a.)

24

b.)

34

c.)

167

d.)

103

8. Assessment level B

The Use of Exponents

Assessment Level B
A computer analyst looks at her computer at 1 p.m. and sees 4 MB of lost memory. At 2 o'clock,
she notices 3 times as much memory has been lost. She realizes that she has a serious virus in the
computer and that if the amount of memory lost exceeds 26,242 MB, her system will crash. How
many
hours
does
she
have
before
her
computer
crashes?
Justify your answer using your answer using a table and a line graph.

Time
1:00

Lost memory
4 MB

Guided Practice / Check for Understanding:

a. As students work through the working with exponent handout, I will circulate around the room
and assess their understanding.
Closure:

On your own, think about your response

1) What are the characteristics of exponential expressions?

Homework: Finish work not finished in class

Assessment Evidence: Assessment A and Assessment B will evaluate how ready the students are to learn the
laws of exponents.
Reflection:

THE LEVEL OF BLOOMS TAXONOMY USED

Knowledge Comprehension Application

Analysis

Synthesis Evaluation

THE RESEARCH BASED STRATEGIES USED

Similarities and Differences

Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
Clues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
Technology Integration

Homework and Practice

Generating and testing hypothesis
Cornell Notes
Summarizing and Note Taking
Differentiated Instruction

Cooperative Learning
Fishbowls
Socratic Seminar
Nonlinguistic Representations