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Corps Amy Li PD: Melissa Avila Lesson Plan 11/20/08 Rough? Final
Member: Date: Final?

FIVE-STEP LESSON PLAN

VISION-SETTING: KNOW, SO, SHOW

OBJECTIVE. KEY POINTS.

What is your objective?
SWBAT round decimals to the ten-thousands,
thousands, hundreds, tens, ones, tenths,
hundredths, thousandths, and ten-thousandths
place.
What knowledge and skills are embedded in the objective?
1. Identify place values from ten thousands to ten
thousandths.
2. Use the value to the right of the place in question
to determine whether to raise the place or keep it
the same.
3. Eliminate everything to the right of the place
value.

ASSESSMENT.
Describe, briefly, what students will do to show you that they have mastered (or made progress toward) the objective.
Attach your daily assessment, completed to include an exemplary student response that illustrates the expected level of rigor.
Indicate whether you will administer the assessment as the independent practice or during the lesson closing.
Exit slip:

3,765.9821

Round to the nearest whole number:

Round to the nearest tenths:

Answers:
Round to the nearest whole number: 3,766
Round to the nearest tenths: 3,766.0

CONNECTION TO THE BIG GOAL.

How does the objective connect to the big goal?
Being able to round decimals is a necessary skill that is embedded in questions on the 6th grade CST.

CONNECTION TO LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING.

How will you address any prerequisite literacy skills impacting students’ ability to demonstrate mastery of the objective? How will you
develop conceptual understanding so that students internalize the concept and not just a set of algorithms without their meaning?

This lesson involves comprehension of new vocabulary terms: rounding, nearest, and all of the place value
terms.
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DETERMINING METHODS: GO
WARM UP (8 min.)
Before the tardy bell rings, students are to read the instructions on the overhead and do the
following: take out their Do Now worksheet, keep their homework on their desk, take out their
math journal, and select problems from the homework that they want to see done on the board.

When the tardy bell rings, students will complete the 3 phases of the Do Now exercise: Word
Warm Up (word problem version of yesterday’s lesson), Speed Challenge (multiplication fast
facts: this week’s emphasis is on the fives), and Math Wheel (addition and multiplication).
While students are completing the Do Now, my two homework stampers are coming around to
stamp homework for completion.

Once time runs out on the Do Now, I will go over the answers. Students will check their
answers and self-assign points.
REVIEW (12 min.)
From the list of problems that the students chose, I will go over those in class. It is in the style
of a “We do,” in order to solve the problem. Re-teaching can occur here if necessary.
4. OPENING (8 min.) MATERIALS.
How will you communicate what is about to happen? How will you communicate how it will happen?
How will you communicate its importance? How will you communicate connections to previous lessons?
How will you engage students and capture their interest?
Do you remember when we were calculating rates on Monday and Tuesday? We had a Word
Warm Up that asked us to determine the rates of bananas. It cost $4.95 for 10 bananas. What
did we decide was the rate of dollars per banana? $0.495. Is there such thing as half a cent or
half a penny? So, how are we going to decide how much to pay? Would it be $0.49 or $.0.50?
(Allow students to make suggestions)

How about when we grade homework. Let’s pretend that I have you 15 problems to do for
homework and you tried really hard and finished 13 of them, but you didn’t know how to do the
last two problems. Let’s say your friend also tried to do the homework. But instead of doing it
at home, he or she tried to do it 5 minutes before class started and they finished 2 problems.
Should both students get full credit for the homework? Why or why not?

Imagine that I am only going to give full credit or 0 credit. What is the fairest way to decide how
much credit to give? (Lead discussion to say half way is the fairest). I’m impressed that you
guys came up with that! Did you know that that is the accepted standard now? Let’s write
down the actual rules of rounding.
3. INTRODUCTION OF NEW MATERIAL (5 min.)
How will you explain/demonstrate all knowledge/skills required of the objective, so that students begin to actively
internalize key points?
Which potential misunderstandings do you anticipate? How will you proactively mitigate them?
How/when will you check for understanding? How will you address misunderstandings?
How will you clearly state and model behavioral expectations? Why will students be engaged?
1) Let’s take out our math journals and open to the Table of Contents. We all need to
write today’s date (11/20/08) and the topic, which is Rounding Decimals. Turn to the
first blank page in your math journal, fold down the page, and be sure to write the page
number at the top.
2) Let’s go ahead and write down all of the steps for rounding decimals and then we’ll do
some examples.
3) Rounding Decimals
a. Circle the place value that you must round.
b. Underline the number to the right of the circled number.
i. If the underlined number is 0 – 4, keep the circled number.
ii. If the underlined number is 5 – 9, raise the circled number up by 1.
c. Rewrite the new number. Don’t write anything after the circled number.

2. GUIDED PRACTICE (5 min.)

How will students practice all knowledge/skills required of the objective, with your support, such that they continue to
internalize the key points?
How will you ensure that students have multiple opportunities to practice, with exercises scaffolded from easy to hard?

How/when will you monitor performance to check for understanding? How will you address misunderstandings?
How will you clearly state and model behavioral expectations? Why will students be engaged?
Let’s look at a few examples: Worksheet
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REINFORCEMENT
HOMEWORK (if appropriate). How will students practice what they learned?
Rounding Decimals worksheet.