Graphing My Home: A Review of Four Quadrant Graphing
Muse Machine 2025 Summer Institute-Inspired Lesson Plan
Developed by Angela Streby
Incarnation Catholic School
Dayton, OH
Lesson Plan Summary:
Elementary math often emphasizes equations and correct answers. Inspired by the 2025 Summer Institute Storytelling and the Folk Arts Spirit: The Roads that Lead to Home, Angela Streby of Incarnation Catholic School adapted the idea of “mapping home” into a graphing lesson. Students identified personal concepts of home and plotted them on coordinate grids, reinforcing vocabulary, axes, points, and ordered pairs while showing that accuracy can yield multiple valid answers. Student reflections confirmed the lesson’s impact on their knowledge of graphing concepts as well as deeper than expected personal connections to the work.
Instructor: Angela Streby
Title of Lesson: Graphing My Home: A Review of Four-Quadrant Graphing
Subject Area & Grade Level: PreAlgebra Grade 8
Summer Institute Inspiration: Mapping Home with Chris Westhoff