Sample lesson and workshop for "Achieving Credentials for Success" Conference in Appleton, Wisconsin, October 16, 2013.

1. Exciting Instructional Strategies
for the 2014 GED® Test
Orange You Glad?
October 16, 2013
Achieving Credentials for Success Conference
Appleton, WI

2. Meagen Farrell
Author, trainer, consultant
GED® Test prep instructor
@farrellink
Facebook.com/farrell.ink
Farrellink.com

3. Agenda
1. Facilitating engaging lessons: “Orange You
Glad?”
2. Create your own interdisciplinary lesson
plan.
3. Questions & Answers.

4. Rules for the Road
• Stay with the group! Don’t get distracted
by your mobile device or side
conversations.
• Questions? Yes, please! Just raise your
hand and tell me your name & location.

5. Content from Real Life Scenarios
Reasoning
through
Language Arts
Science
Social Studies
Mathematical
Reasoning

6. My Two Cents on Teaching Adults
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•
•
GED® test prep programs
are like marathon training
programs at a gym.
Single-subject instruction is
like running alone on the
treadmill, day after day.
Interdisciplinary group
instruction is like working
out with a team.

7. Facilitating Engaging Lessons:
Orange You Glad?
Field Tested in Cleveland, Ohio

8. Interdisciplinary Lesson
Use the
Formula
Sheet
Mathematics
content
Measure and
Calculate
Eating
Fruit
Write a
Word
Problem

9. Who Gets to Use the Knife?

10. Before We Start
• Using a Ruler
• Surface Area & Volume of a
Sphere
• Pi, Radius, and Diameter

11. Activity
• Use a ruler to measure the diameter of a half
orange.
• Use the measurement to calculate the
volume and surface area.
• Create a word problem using students’ names
and measurement.

12. Create a Chart
Name
Measurement
Daphne
2.5 inches
Louisa
2.25 inches
Anthony
2.75 inches

13. Use the Formula Sheet

14. Sequence the Steps
Graphic Organizer!

15. Create a Word Problem
“Annie buys five oranges with a diameter of 2.25
inches. How much is the total surface area of
the peels?”

16. Questions?

17. Your Turn! Create Your
Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan
• Each person should have a blank lesson plan
template and a completed example.
• Get in groups of four to six people.
• Designate one person as the recorder to write
down the lesson.

18. Questions?

19. Take It Home
• The PowerPoint and handout is available for
view or download at my website:
farrellink.com
• You have permission to use these workshop
materials in your program as long as you
attribute Meagen Farrell and New Readers
Press.

20. Thank You!
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