For this project, I worked with Shannon to create a lesson plan for a first grade class. We both are in a first grade practicum , therefore we thought we'd take what our students are learning in practicum, and create a lesson! We know our students are learning about the addition and subtraction. We thought that creating a lesson that allowed students to color after completing math would help keep them interested!
If teachers wanted to group students in pairs of 2, we created simple math QR codes and printed them out. We glued one QR code per index card. From this, we were able to hand out the QR Codes to have the students use iPads to scan them. In order to find their partner, students would have to solve the math problem they scanned. We made sure there were two equations with the same sum. Depending on the students, teachers could always adapt this by creating harder math problems! If there are an odd number of students (like we had) the teacher can create a 3rd equation that equals one of the sums that are already created. This allows students to work together, but also they have no control over who they are going to be partnered with.
We found the website coloritbynumbers.com/online and thought it would fit our lesson plan perfectly! This website allows for the user to color in images that are provided on the website. The first time we tried this, it worked perfectly! However, when we were preparing the lesson, the website was not cooperating. To supplement for this, we printed screenshots we took from the website of the image we chose! We took two screen shots, one of the blank image and one of the image with the numbers! With the blank picture, we filled it in with appropriate commutative addition problems that corresponded with the numbers on the image with the numbers. This allowed us to have a worksheet and an answer key! From here, we followed the color by numbers on the website , and created a color key. Since the website was not working, we used the ELMO projector instead! This still allowed students to come up and color the image. By allowing every student to come up and color this picture, it will keep the students engaged and actively participating!
If teachers wanted to group students in pairs of 2, we created simple math QR codes and printed them out. We glued one QR code per index card. From this, we were able to hand out the QR Codes to have the students use iPads to scan them. In order to find their partner, students would have to solve the math problem they scanned. We made sure there were two equations with the same sum. Depending on the students, teachers could always adapt this by creating harder math problems! If there are an odd number of students (like we had) the teacher can create a 3rd equation that equals one of the sums that are already created. This allows students to work together, but also they have no control over who they are going to be partnered with.
We found the website coloritbynumbers.com/online and thought it would fit our lesson plan perfectly! This website allows for the user to color in images that are provided on the website. The first time we tried this, it worked perfectly! However, when we were preparing the lesson, the website was not cooperating. To supplement for this, we printed screenshots we took from the website of the image we chose! We took two screen shots, one of the blank image and one of the image with the numbers! With the blank picture, we filled it in with appropriate commutative addition problems that corresponded with the numbers on the image with the numbers. This allowed us to have a worksheet and an answer key! From here, we followed the color by numbers on the website , and created a color key. Since the website was not working, we used the ELMO projector instead! This still allowed students to come up and color the image. By allowing every student to come up and color this picture, it will keep the students engaged and actively participating!
Click one of the file links below to access our lesson plan!
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Below are images of our lesson plan!
Feel free to look around and see what our work looked like:
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