Lesson Plan 5

Activity Title:	Recipe Fun Assessment Grade Level: 4
Rationale:	Students will use and encounter fractions in their everyday lives. This lesson will reinforce the concept of adding fractions with like denominators. As students will have had previous encounters with adding and subtracting fractions this lesson will further develop these strengths by providing a concrete conception of adding fractions with like denominators. This lesson will further work as an informal assessment for me to evaluate student understanding.
Goals:	Students will apply knowledge and number sense including numeration and operations. Students will investigate, report, represent, and solve problems using number facts and their properties by solving one and two step problems involving fractions.
Objective:	Students will identify fractions at the symbolic level and add fractions with like denominators by using models and pictures to further their understandings of these concepts.
Readiness/Pre-assessment:	Students should know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Also should understand the concept of “equal.” We have been working on these concepts since the beginning of the year, and I know most students have adequate skills in these areas. Students should have encountered fractional vocabulary in third and fourth grades. Their fractional encounters should also have been with the concepts of adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators. Day’s one, two, three, and four’s lessons will be the foundations to further support this lesson.
Materials and equipment needed:	Various recipes with simple ingredients, clipboards, attached paper, and pencils, bowls and containers of rice, measuring cups and measuring spoons.
Introduction:	Have plenty of measuring cups and spoons set up at various locations around the room “center-style.” Have a recipe set out at each location with the measuring cups and spoons. At each center, give written directions for the students to either double or triple circled specific parts of the recipe.
Instruction:	Divide the students up into groups of four and have them take their clipboards, handout sheet and pencils and rotate the various stations. However, stress that each student will work individually. Each student will begin filling out their papers according to the station number which they are at and according to the modeled example on their handout. Each group will be allowed a set time at each station (15 minutes) in which to arrive at their answers. Instruct the students that they may use any of the manipulatives at the tables to help them to arrive at their answers.
Evaluation of Lesson:	I will want to see if this lesson would stay within the time frame allotted for it. Did the students meet the objectives of understanding numerator/denominator? Did the students meet the objectives of understanding the adding of fractions with like denominators? What questions did they ask? Did I answer knowledgably so as they could understand? Did I give clear, concise demonstrations and directions?
Of students:	I need to make sure that each student is clear on the directions that will be gone over at the beginning of the assessment. I need to make sure that each student is clear on how to fill out their handout sheet. Furthermore, I need to evaluate if the students understood the concept of adding fractions with like denominators. I will do this by seeing if students show at least an 80% correctness on the modeled handout. Furthermore, I will assess if they clearly understand the concepts and meanings of numerator and denominator.
Individualization:	Remediation: For those students that do not receive at least 80% correctness on handout be prepared to go back and review the already established concrete methods employed.
	Enrichment: Have a challenge station in which students will have to half a recipe instead of doubling and tripling. Make sure that individuals understand that this is a challenge and not to be counted against them.
	Special Needs: Make sure that I am available during the assessment to address any questions and frustrations that they may have. Understand that certain individuals may have special “testing” requirements that will need to be followed at this time. Be sure to share results of assessment with resource teacher so as they can further give these students extra remediation in this area.
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.