WVSU LESSON PLAN FORMAT (Updated 1/13)

Teacher Candidate: Rachael Sherman-White

Date: April 1, 2014
School: Point Harmony Elementary
Grade/Subject: 4th Grade Mathematics
Unit Topic: Understanding fractions as a part of a whole.
Lesson Topic: Reducing fractions
Lesson 1, Lesson 2, or Lesson 3? Lesson 3
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES/ STUDENT OUTCOMES
1. Students will breakdown fractions into simplest form.
WV CSOS: M. 4. NF. 3.b Decompose a fraction.
NATIONAL STANDARDS: Decompose a fraction.
MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK:
Overall Time: 50 minute lesson
Time Frame: 10 minutes teaching, 30 minutes of shoulder buddy worksheets, 10
minutes of checking answers and answering questions and summarizing.
STRATEGIES:
Teacher/student led discussions, teacher modeling, and group
practice.
DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION/ ADAPTATIONS/ INTERVENTIONS
Instruction will take place on the Smart Board overhead for visual learners. To assist
lower level performers pictorial representation will be used on the overhead and on
the worksheet. Advanced learners will work on word problems involving multiple
steps to answer to challenge these students.
PROCEDURES: Introduction/ Lesson Set
The students will be diagnostically assessed to determine the amount of
background information needed to understand and perform the objective.
Questions such as those on a checklist will be implemented and recorded.
PROCEDURES: Body & Transitions
Play a reducing fractions video
Explain how fractions are reduced
Demonstrate how fractions are reduced
Explain how to calculate the new fraction is derived

 Go over examples of reducing fractions

Handout worksheet for students to work on with shoulder buddies
Circulate in the room and inspect student work
PROCEDURES: Closure: Go over worksheet and answer student questions.
Summarize.
ASSESSMENT: Diagnostic: Students will be asked questions and they will be
expected to produce answers on their white boards. Results will be recorded on a
score sheet.
ASSESSMENT: Formative: Students will be given a worksheet to practice new
concepts. Data from the results of the worksheet will determine the need for further
instruction.
ASSESSMENT: Summative: Students will be given a summative exam similar to
the diagnostic assessment to measure knowledge and understanding and to
measure student achievement as an end result.
MATERIALS: Smart Board, student dry erase boards, dry erase markers,
pencils, erasers, and worksheets.
EXTENDED ACTIVITIES
If Student Finishes Early: An additional worksheet with more difficult problems will
be distributed.
If Lesson Finishes Early: Word problems will be introduced using fractions.
If Technology Fails: The dry erase board will be used to lead instruction and to
clarify questions.
POST-TEACHING
Reflections
Data Based Decision Making