Lesson Planning Form for Differentiating Instruction Education 305

Teachers: Anna Claire Lambers and Emily Veenstra

Grade level and theme: 4th Grade, Who Won the Election?
Thread/crossover: Math
I. Objectives
What is the main focus of this lesson?

The main focus of this lesson is to discover who has won the election and calculate the results
of the election.
How does this lesson tie in to your Big Idea

In this lesson, students discover the results of the election that theyve been working toward.
What are your objectives for this lesson? (students will be able to.) Indicate connections to applicable
national or state standards (glces). Indicate themes from any threads addressed in this lesson (ex-Geographyhuman environment interaction)

Students will be able to:

Tabulate the results to the election.
Calculate the fraction of votes won by Coke and Pepsi for each class and graphically
represent the results.
Write one minute victory and concession speech.
Threads:
PoliticalStructure of Government
Grade Level Content Expectations:
4 C3.0.6 Describe how the President, members of the Congress, and justices of the Supreme
Court come to power (e.g., elections versus appointments).
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.MD.A.2

Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time,
liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple
fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a
larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams
such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3.A

Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts

referring to the same whole.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3.D

Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the
same whole and having like denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models and
equations to represent the problem.
II. Before you start
Prerequisite knowledge and
skills. What are you
assuming they know or have
already done.

Students need to be able to read at a 4th grade level.

Students need to have already been introduced to fractions.

Assessment
(formative and summative)

Formative:
Listen to students suggestions on what should be included in a
victory/concession speech.
Walk around and monitor students work in pairs.
Summative:
Collect student graphs and check their fraction calculations and
check to see if their visual representation accurately reflects their
results.
Concession (Civics)

Key vocabulary for this

lesson (include key concepts
from individual threads execonomics-opportunity cost
etc)
Materials-what materials
(books, handouts, etc) do
you need for this lesson and
do you have them?

Opportunities for
differentiation

Copies of Barack Obamas victory speech and Mitt

Romneys Concession speech
Sheet with total votes won by each candidate
Sheet with classroom breakdown of votes
Students can be grouped into partner pairs according to abilities.
Perhaps you could places a student who needs more help with
someone more advanced.

III.
The
Plan
Time

Parts

5 min

Motivation

5 min

The description of (script for) the lesson, wherein you describe teacher activities
and student activities

So I know that you all have been wondering who won the
election. But before I tell you who won, you will have to write
concession and victory speeches. You and a partner from your
group will each write a one minute victory and concession
speech. A concession speech is a speech that a candidate gives
when he loses the race. Pass out transcripts of Mitt Romneys
2012 concession speech? Skim through this speech that Mitt
Romney gave after he lost the 2012 presidential race.
Write CONCESSION SPEECH on the board. What do you
notice that Romney does in his speech? What do you think
should be included in your concession speeches? Write
students responses on the board.
Hand out Barack Obamas victory speech. Write VICTORY
SPEECH on the board.
Skim through this speech that Barack Obama gave after he
won the 2012 election. What do you notice in Barack Obamas
speech? What do you think should be included in your victory

30
min.
Development

10
min.

Closure

speech? Write students responses on the board.

Divide each campaign group into two groups and assign each
section either a concession or a victory speech. Tell students
that they will have 5 minutes to write and allow them to get
going.
Walk around and monitor student work. After students finish,
collect their speeches.
The race is now over. Win or lose I am proud of how both
groups ran their campaigns. On the ELMO place the total
votes won by each campaign.
After students finish their rejoicing/moans of sorrow, tell
students that they will now calculate the fraction of each class
that voted for their campaign. Tell students that they will need
to present the information graphically as well. Work out an
example with the class using artificial numbers. Then divide
students into pairs to work (the teacher will probably want to
make sure that the pairs are made up of one coke team member
and one pepsi team member.) Each pair will work together to
find the fractions for each class and come up with their own
way to graphically represent the results. Provide students with
large sheets of paper and markers to draw their graphs on.
Walk around and monitor student work. Ask students questions
to guide their thinking and to consider potential problems with
their calculations.

After students have finished, have students share their graphs

with each other and allow them to hang their graphs in the
hallways for the other class to see.
Remind students of when their final project is due.