Submitted by: Lyndsey Kurfman CWID: 50138255

Grade Level: 5 Mentor Teacher: Drake

Subject/Topic: Math Sales & Property Tax

Name that Tax!

Rationale: Students will build an understanding of

the differences between income, payroll, sales, and Materials/Equipment:
property taxes. SmartBoard
Task Cards
Tax Game (board, pieces, cards, and
answer key)
Ipads
Anchor Chart
Foldable notes pasted in journal
Property Tax and Sales Tax labels

TEKS Achieved: Accommodations:

5.10(A): Define income tax, payroll tax, sales tax, 1. Provide personal word list for student with
dyslexia.
and property tax.
2. Provide a copy of teacher notes for our students
what have difficulties copying from the board.

Classroom Strategies:
Blooms Differentiated Hands-On
Technology
Curriculum
Taxonomy: Learning: Centers Integration:
Independent Activities
Knowledge/Remember Auditory Simulation Math
Comprehension/Understand Visual/Spatial Charts Social Studies
Application Kinesthetic Lecture
Analysis Logical/Math Problem Solving
Create / Synthesis Verbal/Linguistic Whole-group
Evaluation Intrapersonal Pairing
Interpersonal

Objectives:
TSW correctly define

and distinguish the difference between sales tax and property tax.
Lesson Plan:

Introduction
(Anticipatory Set/Focus/Motivation):
I will tell students to imagine that their desk is like their own personal home at school.
Then, I will ask students to get out one dollar of fast cash that they will have to pay me
later on, in order to pay the taxes for owning their desk. I will explain to them that we
will be learning about what kind of tax it is that causes them to have to pay for their
home.

Information Giving
1. We will briefly review what taxes are and what the difference between income
and payroll taxes are.
2. Next, the students and I will go over the anchor chart that will be in the room for
visual aid.
3. I will give them the definitions for both property and sales tax. (They will add
these notes to the foldable note sheet that has already been glued into their
journal.)
a. Property tax: Money paid to the government based on property owned.
Usually due once a year. It pays for police, roads, and schools.
b. Sales Tax: Money paid to the government on goods and services sold,
based on a percentage. Varies- depending on where you purchase.
They add these notes to the foldable note sheet that has already been
glued into their journal.
4. I will give an example of property tax and sales tax.
a. Property Tax- If I own a farm, I have to pay taxes to the government for
the land I own.
b. Sales Tax- When I go shopping at the mall for new school clothes, I have
to pay taxes on the clothes I buy.

Guided Practice:
Through role play students will have different scenarios to act out and the
rest of the class must decide which tax is being paid/acted out.
Two students at a time will act out the scenario I give them. One student
will be the tax collector or the sales person at a store. Then the class will
have to choose which side of the room to stand on. One side will
represent property tax and the other will represent sales tax.
There will be four scenarios acted out in total.
o Student A pays a yearly tax of $100 on his/her car.
o Student A buys a video game that sells for $19.99 plus $0.55 in
tax.
o Student A buys a sweatshirt with a price of $45. The total cost of
the sweatshirt is $47.95.
 o The value of Student As house is $250,000. The yearly tax on the
house is $7,500.

I will check for understanding by watching the students and making sure they are all
going to the correct side of the room.

Independent Practice:
Students will go to stations for Independent Practice.
1. Teacher Table- Tax Task Cards: Students must identify the type of tax by holding
up the correct card when given a scenario.
2. Games- Students will play a tax game in groups of 2-6.
3. Technology- Students will take a quizlet on the iPad that covers tax vocabulary.
4. TTM- Think Through Math
5. Homework- Students will have an opportunity to work on homework for any class.

Assessment/Evaluation:
I will assess the students ability to distinguish the difference between the taxes at teacher table
by keeping a check list and marking students who need more help with the topic.
I will also have a quiz students will complete later in the week to asses their ability to define
income, payroll, sales, and property task.

Closure / Culminating
Activity:
o Students will have an exit ticket. They will need to answer the question,
What do you still need or want to know about taxes?. Then, they will be
able to choose a second question to respond to; What is one reason learning
about taxes is important? or What is one thing our taxes pay for?. The
responses will go on a sticky note and they will place it on their class chart.

Enrichment/Extension:
o Students may write their own question or scenario about having to pay a tax for peers to
look at and decide what tax is being represented.

Reteach:
o I will pull students in small groups or one on one and use the textbook to reinforce
the different types of taxes and what theyre for. Students may also create their
own graphic organizer with me that they can follow easier than the foldable notes
in their journals.