The Traveling Bookseller

Traveling Book Seller, Drew Polly, 2006

The Traveling Bookseller

By Drew PollyUNC-Charlotte

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Scenario

Instead of working this summer in an office, at the pool, or at a camp, you decide to work as a traveling bookseller. You travel around North Carolina selling books at book shows in various cities. You start with $500. Along the way you will make money by selling books. However, you will also spend money on gas and food. Your goal is to: make the most money in the time allowed!


Directions

• Use a scrap piece of paper balled up for a game piece.

• Roll the dice. Move your game piece. If you land on a city….– Select a question and answer it. If you answer

correctly you get $100.

• Each roll, you subtract $20 for expenses.


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Education

Planning and Objectives

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Planning and Theories

Technologies

Geometry

Theories and Planning

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CreditsAll teachers and students at non-profit schools can use, revise, or adapt this game

at will at no cost on the condition that all prior designers are cited.

• Adapted from “The Traveling Georgia Artist” by Lloyd Rieber, The University of Georgia, May 20, 2003

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1) The learning theory that believes learners personally form their own understanding.

• Behaviorism• Cognitivism• Personalism• Constructivism

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2) The learning theory that believes that learners form knowledge through lots of practice and immediate feedback.

• Behaviorism• Cognitivism• Constructivism• Personalizitionism

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3) The instructional activity that begins a lesson.

• Application• Information• Motivation• Orientation

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4) The indirect lesson plan phase where terms and content is introduced and discussed.

• Engage• Explain• Explore• Evaluate

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5) The indirect lesson plan phase where students are guided through discovery, experiments.

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• Engage• Explain• Explore• Evaluate


6) In a direct instruction lesson plan teacher input includes:

• Presentation of content • Practice activities• Information about checking for

understanding• Both the 1st and 3rd choices

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7) The learning theory that most closely aligns with indirect instruction is:

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• Behaviorism• Cognitivism• Constructivism• The first two choices


8) In an indirect instruction lesson plan, making the K and W columns of a KWL chart would occur in:

• Engage• Explain• Elaborate• Evaluate

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9) In lesson plans, practice is…

• Heavily structured the whole time• Independent the whole time• Loosely structured the whole time• Structured but gradually becomes

independent

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10) The phases that are similar in indirect and direct instruction plans are…

• Engage and Focus/Review• Explore and Teacher Input• Extend/Elaborate and Independent

practice

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11) The performance part of an instructional objective states….

• What the learner will do to demonstrate that they have met the objective

• Whether they work alone or in groups• How many problems they need to get

correct• What materials they will use during the

lesson

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12) The conditions of an instructional objective state….

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• Whether they work alone or in groups

• How many problems they need to get correct

• What materials they will use during the lesson

• Both the 2nd and 4th choices


13) The criteria part of an instructional objective states….

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• Whether they work alone or in groups• How many problems they need to get

correct• What materials they will use during the

lesson


14) If a rubric will be used, the parts of the rubric are shared in the….

• Criteria of the objective and the evaluate section

• Only in the criteria of the objective

• Only in the evaluate section

• Nowhere

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15) In a multi-step lesson plan, the performance part of the objective:…

• Every single activity is explained

• Only some of the activities are explained

• Only the performance being assessed is explained

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16) An Excel self-checking spreadsheet is best used to ______

• Write a paper

• Organize information

• Teach new material

• Review previously taught material

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17) School districts have….

• The same policies about internet use

• Varying policies about internet use

• Free reign for internet use

• No internet at all

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18) Mail merge requires _______

• Data in an Excel spreadsheet

• A Word document

• The internet

• Both data in Excel and a Word document

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19) Excel activities can _____

• Provide students with feedback on their performance

• Make graphs of science data

• Assist students with their mathematics skills

• All of the above

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20) Students’ highest level of thinking occurs when they….

• Create

• Evaluate

• Understand

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21) The perimeter of a square table is 12 feet. What is the area?

• 6 square feet

• 9 square feet

• 12 square feet

• 18 square feet

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22) The area of a square table is 25 square feet. What is the perimeter?

• 10 square feet• 15 square feet• 20 square feet• 25 square feet

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23) It takes me 40 yards of fencing to enclose my yard. Which is not a possible dimension of my yard?

• 14 yards by 6 yards• 10 yards by 10 yards• 12 yards by 9 yards• 13 yards by 7 yards

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24) I use a square baking pan that is 8 inches by 8 inches to bake a cake. In order to make more cake I switch to a pan that is 16 inches by 8 inches. What do I have to do to my recipe?

• Cut the amounts of ingredients in half• Double the amounts• Triple the amounts

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25) The perimeter of a square table is 12 ft. If tables are lined up next to each other so the perimeter was 96 feet how many tables are needed?

• 8

• 12

• 15

• 18

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26) NCLB stands for__________

• No Child Leaves Broken

• No Child Lives Behind

• No Child Left Behind

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27) As of 2003, the United States ranked _____ out of all countries in mathematics and science achievement.

• Between 1st-10th• Between 11th-20th• Between 21st-30th

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28) Critic’s largest complaint about teachers is that they _______.

• Don’t know enough content about what they have to teach

• Don’t know enough about how children learn

• Don’t spend enough time working

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29) NCLB will most likely be heavily revised if the _________ win the White House.

• Democrats

• Republicans

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30) Which is most likely to occur if the United States had a national curriculum?

• There would be no need for state departments of education and school districts

• States would still have exclusive authority on what was taught in schools

• End of grade (course) tests would be written and given at the national level

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