Lesson Plan Component

Descriptors

Title
Third Grade

An introduction to fractions. Students will make sense of equal fractions.

Fractions represent parts of a whole and parts of a set. Students will learn
new vocabulary and be able to explain fraction, numerator, denominator.

Relevant Standards

Common Core NH State Standards

1. CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.1 (Grade3): Understand a fraction 1/b as the
quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts;
understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.
ISTE Standards
1. #2 Communication and Collaboration: Students use digital media and
environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a
distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of
others.

Learner Outcomes
Students will be using the Blooms taxonomy levels of knowledge and
comprehension, as well as application through creating a diagram in the app
Drawp for Schools on the iPads. Students will develop an understanding of
fractions, beginning with unit fractions; 3.NF.1.
Students will use fractions along with visual fraction models to
represent parts of a whole.
Students will illustrate and label fractions on their whiteboard.
They will discuss and show new vocabulary words and the numerical
fraction in their journal.
Students will use technology to diagram a solution for a problem
regarding fractions.
They will apply their knowledge with a quiz and worksheet. Higher order
analysis will take place through in-depth discussion of fractions and
examining the relationship of how the fractions are part of the whole.
Assessment
I will get an idea of prior knowledge based on discussion while we cut and
eat pizza. Formative assessment will be taking place during instruction.
Through discussion, drawings on the iPad and using whiteboards, I will
gauge whether students are understanding the concepts. The Flubaroo report
on the students quiz, will also be a form of formative assessment.
Summative assessment will take place at the end of the lesson, using the
Fraction Spotting Sheet 2. This will be handed in and graded.
Resources
Teacher will need pizza, pizza slicer, paper plates, internet capability, TV,
visual representations of pizza fractions, anchor chart, markers, journals,
scissors, worksheet with definitions, iPads, mini whiteboards and dry erase
markers. Drawp for School app on iPads is a paperless method to manage
assignments and stores them in the cloud. This is where students will
illustrate and label fractions. Google Forms is a tool where I can create a
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quiz. Using Flubaroo, an add-on app to Google that will quickly grade the
quiz created in Google Forms and provide detailed reports to the teacher
about performance. I will quickly have the quizzes graded, emailed back to
students and a report will be generated about how each student did and if
there were any trends in difficulty. I will also have need the smartboard,
BrainPop Jr. subscription and copies of the Fraction Spotting Sheet 2 and
Drawp Fraction Math Rubric for each student. There will be textbooks,
audiobooks and Khan Academy fraction videos in the centers for students to
use in their free time.
Anticipatory Set

Procedures

I want to get students excited about fractions and have this be a memorable
lesson. Since students are diverse in their learning, I wanted to address the
possible methods for reaching these different learning styles. In regard to
Multiple Intelligences, this lesson will appeal to the Logical learners
through the numbers and problem-solving, as well as the visual-spatial by
watching the video and using the iPad to draw representations of fractions,
kinesthetic by cutting and gluing the vocabulary words, existential by
connecting real world understanding and applying it to new learning, and
interpersonal while they collaborate together. I will be differentiating my
instruction based on the different learning styles represented in the
classroom. Our learning environment will also have textbooks, audiobooks
and Khan Academy videos for the learners that prefer those methods.
I am going to ask a local pizza parlor to donate a few uncut pizzas to my
classroom. I am going to have the students gather around the table and I am
going to ask them to think about how we could divide the pizza up into
equal parts. I am first going to cut the pizza into half, and then into quarters.
As I cut, we will talk about the pieces and the fraction that represents them.
Students should be connecting their knowledge about the term 'half' to make
sense of half representing 2 equal parts. I will finally cut them into eighth
sections and we will do the same with the other pizzas. We will all enjoy 1/8
of a pizza while we watch a Iken Edu video (Learn Fractions found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A3VfV0oIBo) to reinforce the idea.
This is on YouTube so it is free and easy to access. I will have a visual
representation of the pizza slices and the different possibility of fractions
hanging on the board.
1. Write on the board: 4 people could share 1 whole candy bar by...
2. I then ask students to share at their tables as many ways as they
could think of to share this candy bar. After some discussion,
representatives from each group come up to the smartboard and list
and explain one of their ways.
3. Students will take out their mini-whiteboards and dry erase markers.
I will ask students to draw a fraction that I call out. Students will
represent fractions on their whiteboard and will hold them up. I will
call out the following fractions:
One half
One third
One fourth
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 Two fifths
Three fifths
After each fraction, students will hold up the whiteboard and I will
walk around the classroom for formal assessment.
4. As a class, we are going to discuss the new vocabulary words
fractions, numerator, and denominator.
5. I will introduce a Fraction Anchor Chart that will contain all the
essential vocabulary words the students are responsible for learning.
It will stay hung in our classroom so the students may refer back to
it. We discuss what is a fraction and what is not, draw pictures. We
also write and discuss parts and whole. It will look similar to this:
FRACTIONS: What is a Fraction? It is a
number that expresses equal parts of a whole
object or set of objects.

6. I will tell the students they may need this information in their
journals so I will pass out papers with squares of vocabulary word
and the matching definition. I ask them to cut them out and glue
them in their journals.
7. As students begin to finish, I ask them to each get an iPad from the
cart and work with a partner on a quiz in Google Forms on the iPad.
Each student will do a quiz, but they can work with partners to
discuss each question.
8. I have an add-on in Google Forms called Flubaroo. Flubaroo will
quickly grade students quiz and email it back to them
(http://www.flubaroo.com/instructional-videos). I will be walking
around the room to see if my help is needed. Students can then
review the graded quiz to see what they may need extra help with. I
review the report from Flubaroo in case there are any questions on
the quiz that students had difficulty with. If necessary, we will
review any difficult concepts.
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9. Students will work on their Fraction Spotting Sheet 2. They will

hand this in to be graded.
Closure
1. Still using the iPads, I ask them to individually think about the
following question: Joe has a large candy bar. He cut it into pieces so
that he could share it equally with his two best friends. I ask the
students to open the app Drawp for school (which they are already
familiar with). In the app, I ask them to diagram different ways Joe
might have cut the candy bar. Students will label each piece as a
fraction and label the fractions using new vocabulary words. I will
give them a copy of the rubric for which this activity will be
assessed.
2. I will have learning centers set up in the classroom for when there is
free time throughout the week. The centers will be devoted to
fractions. One of the centers will have the video Parts of a Whole
from BrainPop Jr. playing on an iPad, another will have some of the
fraction games on Brain Pop Jr., textbooks, audiobooks and Khan
Academy fraction videos set up.
Modifications/Accommodation
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Higher-Order Questions
(HOT)

Extra time will be provided for students, if needed. Verbal and visual cues
will be provided so students can stay on task easier. All adaptive and
assistive technology found on any IEPs will be included in the lesson if
necessary. Students with attention or behavior difficulties will be seated
closer to the front of the room next to a model student. If there are students
who finish quickly and have a good understanding, they may do activities in
the learning center.
1. Which is bigger, one half or one third?
2. What is one fourth plus one fourth?
3. Does anyone know what an equivalent fraction is? How could you
explain it? Talk about one half and two fourths.
4. Put the following fractions in order from smallest to biggest: one
half, one third, one fourth, three fourths.
5. Label the following fractions on a number line: one half, one third,
one fourth, three fourths.
6. What would happen if the numerator was bigger than the
denominator?

Drawp Activity Fractions Math Rubric Grade 3

Level
3

Understanding

Process &
Strategies
-Finds and labels -Goes beyond
all important
expectations by
parts of the
using more than
problem
one way to show
-Shows
thinking
complete
-Includes a clear
understanding in diagram
journal, Drawp
diagram and
discussions
-Shows some
-Uses one way
understanding of to show thinking
the concepts
-Uses a diagram

-Does not
understand the
concepts

-The reasoning
is hard to
understand

Accuracy

Communication

-Correct
solutions,
vocabulary
words and
explanations
-No mistakes

-Clear answers
and labeled
neatly
-Excellent use of
fraction
language
-Neat and easy
to read

-Small mistakes

-Uses some math

language
-Didnt explain
thinking
-Some use of
labels
-Difficult to
understand
-No use of math
language or label

-Big mistakes