Lesson Plan 15

Activity Title:	Connecting The Cubes Grade Level: 4
Rationale:	Students have used various lessons to boost and further their understanding of fractions within the world. This lesson will allow them to demonstrate and apply their problem solving strategies by giving them a concrete experience of early fraction work with a creative approach to problem solving.
Goals:	Students will apply knowledge and number sense including numeration and operations to help solve problems involving the concepts of equivalent fractions by using models.
Objective:	Students will learn to identify equivalent fractions at the symbolic level and explain the equivalence.
Readiness/Pre-assessment:	Having developed the problem solving aspect throughout the year, the students will be able to apply their strategies to the fractional aspects of equivalent fractions.
Materials and equipment needed:	Multicolored cubes/worksheet attached/crayons.
Introduction:	This will be a problem that the students will work with in their journals. Tell the students that they are to try to come up with as many creative solutions to the problem as they can. I will be evaluating their journals not for just correct solutions but for creativity and their thinking process throughout the work.
Instruction:	Students may work in pairs. Model the first problem that is on the worksheet. Then have the students record their results in their journals to solve the other problems. However, inform the students to keep working and demonstrating all the ways they can create fractional parts and explain what fractional parts they are demonstrating. Also, even though the students are using the blocks have them draw their creations in their journals.
Evaluation of Lesson:	I will want to see if this lesson would stay within the time frame allotted for it. Did I model the problem clearly and concisely? Did the students find this lesson challenging or did they find it boring? Did they enjoy using the manipulatives and creating their own Cube mats?
Of students:	I will evaluate this problem and the student’s understanding by their work shown in their journals. I will be able to assess their understanding by reviewing their drawn creations.
Individualization:	Remediation: If problems of understanding exist, go back over the students journals with them individually and once again model with the blocks used.
	Enrichment: Allow these students to help the ones that did not grasp the concepts. Have them to decide which manipulatives they think would work best with which student. Have them to go over the journals with the ones that are having problems.
	Special Needs: Be sure to work individually with these students and have the resource teacher continue this lesson if there are any problems. They may need help to record their thinking process in their journals.
Self-Reflections:	_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ This section will be to reflect on how the lesson went with the students and if I would have any changes etc. the next I would use this lesson.