Student Teaching edTPA Indirect Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Subject: Math Central Focus: Understand fractions as numbers.

Common Core/Essential Standard Objective:

NC.3.NF.1 Interpret unit fractions with
denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 as quantities Date submitted: 3-12-2019 Date taught: 3-15-2019
formed when a whole is partitioned into equal parts.

Daily Lesson Objective: The students will show understanding by drawing and expressing fractions as parts of whole, by
scoring 4 out of 5 problems correct.

21st Century Skills: Academic Language Demand (Language Function and

Vocabulary):

Prior Knowledge: multiplication, geometry, working on fractions for a week

Activity Description of Activities and Setting Time

Part 1: 3 minutes
• Distribute Ben’s Backyard handouts to students.
• Draw students’ attention to the representation of Ben’s
backyard.

1. Engage Ben’s Backyard

• Read task: Ben is drawing plans for his new backyard. He
wants to partition his yard into thirds. One third will be a
garden. One third of the yard will be grass, and one third will
be a pool. Show one way Ben could partition his backyard.
How can you prove that your drawing is equally partitioned into
thirds?

Part 2:
Ask: How many other ways could Ben partition his yard?

I will walk around and see which way the students are partitioning the 5 minutes
backyard. There are only 2 different ways, so it shouldn’t take them too long.
I will look for a least one sentence describing how they know that the parts are
equal.
2. Explore
If they get stuck, I will ask: How are we dividing or partitioning the backyard?
Ok, how many parts does that mean? Ok, so can you draw 3 equal parts inside
the box?
 If students finish early, I will tell them that Ben decided to partition his
backyard into sixths and if they can update their drawing showing that
information.

Once I see that everyone is done, I will ask a student to come up to the board 10
and draw their backyard. I will ask if anyone drew anything different and minutes
allow that student to draw another version on the board. I will explain that
both drawings were correct because the backyard boxes both had 3 equal
3. Explain
parts. I will erase one of the lines on a backyard and draw an unequal part. I
will ask if this drawing works on showing equal thirds. The students should
say no and explain that all the parts aren’t equal.

I will pass out the fraction worksheets and as they work on it, I will walk 20
around and guide the students through. If they get stuck on number 4, I can minutes
4. Elaborate ask them to write a fraction for how many thumbs they have from their
fingers. I can also refer to anything else in the room that shares equal parts.

Informal assessments: The drawings and explanation on Ben’s Backyard sheet

will help me see what the students are struggling with and what I need to go
over more.

Formal assessments: I will collect the What is a Unit Fraction worksheet. I

will use the rubric below to assess the students’ comprehension.

5. Evaluate
0-1 correct 2-3 correct 4-5 correct
Assessment Methods of Needs more work Progressing Meets Expectation
all objectives/skills • Student is Student does some: • Student partitions
unable to • Student accurately and
partition a understands uses proper
whole into partitioning, but language and
sixths and needs may understand mathematical
remediation on how to write the reasoning.
fractions. fraction form of
the drawing.
6. Assessment Results of
all objectives/skills
Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations

Materials/Technology: handouts

Reflection on lesson:

CT signature: ________________________ Date: ______ US signature: ____________________________Date: ______

 Ben’s Backyard
Ben is drawing plans for his new backyard. He wants to partition his yard into
thirds. One third will be a garden. One third of the yard will be grass, and one
third will be a pool. Show one way Ben could partition his backyard.

Ben’s Backyard

How can you prove that your drawing is equally partitioned into thirds?

How many other ways could Ben partition his yard?

Show your solutions on the back of your paper.

 What is a Unit Fraction?
Name Date

1. Taylor wanted to share a large candy bar with 5 friends and himself. Draw and label a candy
bar below. Be sure the candy bar is divided equally.

2. How many equal parts has the candy bar been partitioned into?

3. Each slice of the candy bar is an equal part of the whole candy bar. What
part is one piece of the candy?

4. Examples of other unit fractions are 1/3, 1/6, 1/10. Write 5 different unit fractions.

5. What are two examples of unit fractions we might use or hear? Example: 1/2 of
an hour.