Grade Level: 1st Grade
Content Area: Mathematics
Lesson Title: Take It Away
Learning Objective: Students will subtract 7, 8, and 9 from teen numbers.
Standard: 1.OA.C.6 - Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 – 4 = 13 – 3 – 1 = 10 – 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 – 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).
The video embraces research-based practices, lasts 6-9 minutes, and covers one objective. The video is also highly visual, as its slides minimize the use of text and use images or digital manipulatives to enhance learning.
My face in the corner allows me to incorporate techniques that support students learning a second language, such as Total Physical Response (TPR), gesture, facial expression, and pointing.
The video includes other elements supporting emergent bilingual students, including modifying teacher talk, rate of speech, sentence expansion, repetition, and thoughtfully placed pauses. Images or digital manipulatives also help students understand concepts and meet learning objectives.
Continuous checks for understanding are incorporated as students practice the strategies modeled. I ask questions and pause briefly for the student to participate in the check for understanding.
To encourage students to engage actively through videos, I embedded questions and provided them with guided notes. Students are also prompted to solve an un-scaffolded problem in their notes and check and correct their work.
The students are provided with a printed template of the guided notes. There is also a consistent note-taking system, which includes taking the materials out, solving the problem, and correcting their work.
The Must Do activities enable students to achieve mastery of the learning objectives and collaborate during math workshop.
The Should Do activities provide paper-and-pencil problem sets and IXL direct links to targeted math skills that align with the lesson.
Finally, the Aspire to Do activities allow students to prove their thinking and engage in activities that require a higher Depth of Knowledge (DOK) and procedural and conceptual understanding.
The mastery check is criterion-referenced since it aligns with a single objective and provides information about the student's ability to master the topic and move to the next lesson. The mastery check also provides a clear rubric that helps teachers provide specific, timely feedback and address misunderstandings.
Success criteria are communicated with the "I can" statement aligned to the learning objective, which is shared with students in the interactive videos.
The students have individual trackers printed and posted on Google Classroom weekly. The trackers show the Must Do, Should Do, and Aspire to Do activities that students complete every week.
Students self-pace for two lessons in each module, allowing them to have daily and weekly targets.
The whole-group public tracker promotes collaboration and will enable students to find peers to work with to master lesson objectives.