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Lesson Idea Name: Logarithmic Scale Introduction

Content Area: Algebra II
Grade Level(s): 11th
Content Standard Addressed: MGSE9-12.F.BF.5 Understand the inverse relationship between exponents
and logarithms and use this relationship to solve problems involving logarithms and exponents.

Technology Standard Addressed:

EALR 1 INTEGRATION Students use technology within all content areas to collaborate, communicate,
generate innovative ideas, investigate and solve problems.
EALR 2 DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP Students demonstrate a clear understanding of technology systems and
operations and practice safe, legal and ethical behavior.

Selected Technology Tool:

Blog Wiki Other: Website Creation Tool (list):

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

http://mberwanger.edublogs.org/
Blooms Taxonomy Level(s):
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level): (Level determined by the specific lesson idea)

Level 1: Awareness Level 2: Exploration Level 3: Infusion Level 4: Integration

Level 5: Expansion Level 6: Refinement

Lesson idea implementation: As you address the standards, what will students and teachers do? How will
the project be introduced? How long will it take to complete? How will student learning be assessed? How will
the final product be used to inform/differentiate learning? How will you extend the student learning to a
higher learning level? How will you conclude the lesson? How will you provide feedback to students about
their work? MINIMUM 2 paragraph overview.

Students will come to class having watched the video provided in the link above and having answered the
following questions:
-- graph the function y=x on a normal Cartesian graph (the normal graph which you all know and love) for the
domain 0 to 100. Label the points for x = 0, 1, 10, 50 and 100.
-- Create a graph with a logarithmic scale for the x axis and a linear scale for the y axis. Graph the same y=x
function on this graph and label the points for x = 0, 1, 10, 50 and 100.
-- Create a graph with a logarithmic scale for the x axis and a logarithmic scale for the y axis. Graph the same
y=x function on this graph and again label the points for x = 0, 1, 10, 50 and 100.
-- Comment on differences/similarities between the 3 graphs. Why do you think this is?
-- The narrator in this video uses the phrase: Sometimes to make the harder things simple, we have to make
the simple things harder. In your experience with mathematics and learning exponentials/logarithms, have
you found this to be true?

There is a lot to unpack in this video, and students will quite likely not understand it all upon coming to class.
For this reason, the class activities will be to go through the activities which are done inside the video in small

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groups. Students can either use pen and paper or a computer software (such as Microsoft Word) to create the
number lines.

Importance of technology:
By using a blog and a video, students are able to engage with a curriculum outside of a class and receive
updates from a teacher. Without this blog, a teacher would be unable to adapt a curriculum for students
outside of a classroom and parents would have no way of knowing what the students are learning without
going through the student.

Internet Safety and Student Privacy:

Because students will be actively involved and following a class blog, it is very important to ensure no
student names or information are ever published publicly on this site. Additional student safety measures are
put in place because of the commenting feature of blogs. These measures are that the host (teacher) must
approve any blog message before it can be published.

Describe your personal learning goal for this activity.

The goal of this activity is to give the students an intuitive understanding of exponentials and logarithms as
they relate to the standard number line we have all learned to know and love.

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