Lesson Plan:
Nature and Counting: It All Adds Up
August 28, 2015
August 28, 2015
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to represent addition facts up to 10.
Lesson
Introduction (10 minutes)
- Tell your students that they will be adding natural objects that they get to collect.
- Read a story that relates to natural objects and enumeration such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling (15 minutes)
- Tell your students that they will be going on a walk outside to collect objects for their addition projects.
- Have students count their objects as they collect them. Use addition vocabulary as they add to their collection. For example: You had 3 acorns, and adding 1 more makes 4. Now you have a total of 4 acorns.
- Instruct your students to find approximately 10 objects.
Guided Practice/Interactive Modeling (5 minutes)
- Pass out plain paper or math workmats along with small manipulatives, or have your students use their objects from their nature collection.
- Model making addition sentences with objects. Show students how to write the corresponding numeral under each grouping of objects and write the addition sentence.
Independent Working Time (5 minutes)
- Have students take out their nature collection bag.
- Provide sentence strips, pencils, and glue.
- Encourage students to sort their groupings into a number sentence, and have them glue the objects on and write the total on the right side of the sentence strip.
Extend
Differentiation
- Enrichment: Encourage your students to use more than 2 groupings for their number sentences. Have some of them write the addition sentence out symbolically with the objects labeled. For example: 4 acorns + 5 flowers = 9.
- Support: Show your students how to use their fingers to add, or provide an anchor chart with visual cues for addition.
Review
Assessment (5 minutes)
- Have students practice writing addition sentences on the addition workmat.
- Instruct your students to use small counters to practice.
- Encourage students to note the relationship between the quantity and the numeral.
Review and Closing (5 minutes)
- Display the sentence strips in the room for your students to see.
Guided Lessons are a sequence of interactive digital games, worksheets, and other activities
that guide learners through different concepts and skills.
They keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
Guided Lessons are digital games and exercises that keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
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This lesson includes printable activities:
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Song: Building Numbers Song
Game: Adding Hats with Roly
Game: Building Numbers Pizza Party
Game: Number Pair Staircase 2
Story: The Chocolate Shop Story
Game: Ten Frame Signs
Game: Patterns Puzzle
