Lesson plan based on Fallen Warrior
Use a timeline to measure intervals and calculate the age of works of art.
Skills and Focus: Measuring, Calculation
Subject Area: Mathematics
Thematic Connection: Counting and Calculating
Grade Level: Elementary School
Time Needed: 60 minutes
Objectives
• Measure intervals using a time line.
• Categorize time in years, decades, and centuries.
• Use a timeline to create math sentences.
Instructional Materials Needed
Box (in which to put cutouts of artwork)
Activity
Step 1: Distribute the timeline. Ask students to determine how many centuries are included in the timeline. Cut out the pictures of the artworks from the second timeline and place them in box.
Step 2: Have students locate the Fallen Warrior on the timeline and identify the century during which it was created. Inform students that the Fallen Warrior is a copy of a section of an older Greek statue completed in the fifth century B.C., which was located in the temple of the Parthenon. Select an artwork from the box, ask students to locate it on the timeline, and then estimate how many centuries earlier or later than the Fallen Warrior it was created. Using addition or subtraction, create a math sentence that will measure the centuries between each object. Continue until all objects are drawn from the box.
Step 3: Tell students to divide the centuries into decades and years, and then determine how many decades are included in this timeline. Have students calculate how many years this time line covers.
Step 4 : Have students create a math sentence to describe how many centuries old the Fallen Warrior is.
Goals
This activity meets Illinois State Goal 7: Estimate, make, and use measurements of objects, quantities, and relationships and determine acceptable levels of accuracy.
This activity meets Illinois State Goal 10: Collect, organize, and analyze data using statistical methods to predict results and interpret uncertainty and change in practical applications.
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