Title: Are you perfect?

Objective or Purpose: Students will learn the relationship between their armlenghth
and their height based on Leonardo De Vinci's drawing of Vitruvian Man.

Materials: Two areas of the room marked off for seven feet in height and seven feet
in length.  Meter sticks, yard sticks, tape measure, chart paper, tape, and pink and
blue markers.  An illustration of Leonardo's drawing of Vitruvian Man.

Activities: Each group of children will make a chart recording every individual's
height, and arm span.  When all of the data is collected, the data is charted in a
speckle diagram on the board.  Girls use pink markers, and boys use blue.

Lesson Design   Teacher Procedure          Student Activities                 
Anticipatory Set
Journal writing and review comments, questions, and discussions.
Pre-class work activity:Journal exercise - Are you perfect? Please explain!
Listen, read the journal exercise, open your journal and answer the question to the best of your ability - go! you have 6 minutes.
Input and Modeling

Introduce the "stuff needed for success", and show what they need to know.
Keywords for the week are: length, width, height, centimeters, inches, speckle diagram, trend, graph, title, labels, symmetry.

Ask and brainstorm the journal exercise.

Explain to students using Vitruvian man as an illustration.  Explain the concept of symmetry, and  that you height is roughly the same distance as your arm span.
Listen, see, and take notes.
This introduction should take approximately
8 minutes.
Guided Practice
Show-em how it's done.
Display on the overhead projector instructions for the days activity.  Have individuals complete their data worksheets.  Demonstrate on the board how to graph data, and  have each group enter their data on chart paper for display!

Model how students should approach the measurement areas, note the armspan amount and height value.  Record your data on your table and graph the data on your graph chart.  Enter the first date - Teacher's data.

Circle the room, and facilitate how to represent the data on a chart in a meaningful way.
Hear, see, do - The students are to start their group activity and complete it eight minutes before the end of the period.  Then clean up and straighten their appropriate group areas.
Closure
Comparisons and wrap-ups
Are the measurements between the two activities the same?  How do you know? Close similarities and differences with a Venn diagram.
Listen to the summary of the day's class, and note what homework is posted for the next class period.
Independent Practice: Can we represent the data in today's assignment in a more
meaningful way?  Draw three graph comparisons using your own data, and three
different graphs.

Extension to the lesson: Do an internet search on Leonardo De Vinci, and research
more about him.

Duration of the lesson: Approximately 49 minutes.