Lesson Plan One

Unit Topic or Theme: Fractions

Grade: 3rd

Lesson Topic or Theme: graphically representing fractions

Lesson Objectives:

The students will be able to accurately match at least seven fractions with a graphical representation.

The students will be able to give an explanation for why they choose the graphical representation that they did.

Instructional Materials:

https://www.primarygames.com/math/mathtilesfractions/

Handout with directions and graphs

Pencils

Color pencils

White board

White board markers

Cardboard pizza pie with the slices cutout.

Line paper

Procedure:

Introductory Activity

Give a piece of lined paper to each student.

Ask the students a word problem using the cardboard pizza pie with cutouts. The word problem goes if Johnny eats 3/8 of the pizza. How much of the pizza pie would need to be taken away to represent the remaining amount of pizza?

The teacher will show the graphical representations that the students came up with and show ask what the class thinks of the representation.

Step-by-step

The teacher will hand out the students’ laptops

The students will open the laptop

The teacher will give the students the handout

The students will follow the directions on the handout and complete the handout

The teacher will walk around and assist the students if they have any questions about the handout.

The students will raise their hand once they've completed the handout.

The teacher will collect the handout and give the student a lined piece of paper for the closing activity.

Closure

The teacher will draw on the white board two graphical representations of 6/8 and 4/8.

The teacher will ask the students to write on a white lined paper, what the fractions would be for the graphical representations on the white board.

The teacher will remind the students to reduce as needed.

Once the students have finished, they will hand in the lined paper with their answers.

Evaluation:

How/ when will you determine if you have met your objectives?

The students will be able to accurately match at least seven fractions with a graphical representation.

I will demonstrate that the students have learned how to match at least seven fractions accurately with the use of graphical representations. I will have them record when they got the fraction correct or incorrect by making a mark on the handout. This will show how many times it took a particular student to get the fraction correct.

The students will be able to give an explanation for why they choose the graphical representation that they did.

The students will give explanations for why they choose to represent a fraction the way they did by explaining in their handout why they choose to represent the fraction in that way. The students will also have to explain why the graphical representation for the fractions are correct if the student gets the fraction wrong on the first try.

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Unit topic/theme: Grammar

Grade: 1

Lesson topic/theme: Spelling and punctuation

Lesson Objectives: 

1) Students will be able to recognize a problem in spelling, grammar, or punctuation.

2) Students will be able to fix the problem and explain why it was incorrect.

3) Students will be able to understand and explain how the mistakes affected the sentence


Instructional materials:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar2.htm 

http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/editdan_eng_launcher.html

Instruction sheet and worksheet

Pencil

Computer


Procedure:

Introductory activity 

Teachers should give mini pre lessons on spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Teachers will have two examples on the board, and allow students to raise their hands to try and fix the sentences.

Step-by-step

Students then will go on to the website and try the activity for themselves.

Students are allowed to work in small pairs or groups, and allowed to ask questions to the teacher.

Students will record on their worksheet each sentence and then circle or indicate in some way what they corrected on the website

After 15-20 minutes the teacher will gather the classroom as a large group, again to see where students are struggling and what specific part they need help on.

Closure

After discussing it as a class, the teacher will ask the students to share sentences they got incorrect and write them on the board, and the students will work through how to fix it as a class.

At the end of the unit, the students will be assigned to work on this website again and see how they have improved.


Evaluation:

Objectives: 

Learn how to recognize spelling and grammar mistakes in sentences.

Be able to correct the mistakes the students have found.

  How will the teacher determine the objectives were met?

The teacher will give students sentences with mistakes and have them correct it, after using the website. If the students are able to recognize and correct mistakes outside of the website, then the objectives have been met.