Teacher:

Sheila Macedo
Lesson Title and Grade Level: Learning math and nutrition with oatmeal: Grade 1
Unit Theme: Friendship
Lesson Topic: Representing Data/ Healthy oatmeal



Context for Learning
Learning Needs Category

Number of Students

Supports, Accommodations,
Modifications, and/or Pertinent
IEP Goals

English language learner

Spanish is first language

Provide Ell student with

translations for key concepts
and vocabulary
Allow use of dictionary and
electronic translating devices
Peer buddy
Reduce number of items to be
completed
Provide pre-typed instructions
in Spanish

Ell can supplement answers with

Spanish words

Central Focus

Students explore the concept of friendship through literature, art, music and classroom experiences. They
will produce, artwork, poems, songs and writing pieces that radiates what friendship means. In this math
lesson students practice with using tools to measure, graph and work cooperatively making a healthy
oatmeal.

Common Core Content Standard

Learning Objective

Represent and interpret data.

Given a graph template, students will represent,

and interpret data, to determine who was the
winner of the oatmeal contest with 100%
accuracy.

Given the graphs they created, students will
count the tally marks on their graphs to
determine the winner of the contest, and how
many are in each category with 90 % accuracy.

1MD.4 Organize, represent, and interpret data

with up to three categories; ask and answer
questions about the total number of data points,
how many in each category, and how many more
or less are in one category than in another.

Given the opportunity to share, students will
Elementary Health Education
explain why eating nutrition rich food like
1. Students will understand human growth oatmeal will promote health, recalling at least
two details from the class discussion about
and development and recognize the
oatmeal.
relationship between behaviors and
healthy development. They will

understand ways to promote health and

prevent disease and will demonstrate and

practice positive health behaviors.


Music: Standard 1Creating,
Given a game, students will sing Make New
Performing, and
friends, maintaining tone quality, pitch,
Participating in the Arts
rhythm, tempo.

Students will Sing songs and play instruments,,

and dynamics; perform the music
expressively; and sing or play simple repeated
patterns (ostinatos) with familiar songs,
rounds, partner songs, and harmonizing parts

Writing
WS. 1.11Create and present a poem,
dramatization, art work, or personal
response to a particular author or

Given a recipe template, students will write a
recipe for friendship, listing at least three items.

theme studied in class, with support as

needed

Vocabulary/Concepts/Language

Rationale

Tally, table, chart, represent, sprinkle, dash, nutrition, nutritious, protein, vitamins

All mathematical tasks and activities should be meaningful and interesting to students. Posing
relevant questions, collecting data related to those questions, and analyzing the data creates a real
world connection to counting. The meaning students attach to counting is the key conceptual idea
on which all other number concepts are developed. Students in first grade are only asked to
construct tables and charts. Picture graphs and bar graphs are not introduced until 2nd grade. After
this lesson students should be able to answer questions about a chart including which oatmeal has
the most and least votes. I will also explain how the ingredients we used for the oatmeal makes it a
very healthy snack because of its nutritional value. For those students who have never tasted good
oatmeal I hope this activity will encourage them to try it and eat it at home. We will make the
oatmeal in the morning and finish the lesson on data collection after a recess break, which will
allow the oatmeal to cook. I dived the children so that they would be grouped with new buddies in
the hope they will make new friendships. Lastly they will each write a recipe for friendship and I
will add this to the bulletin board. This lesson will be divided up into parts and will take most of the
day to complete. Even though this was a math lesson there is also a writing component that would
require extra time as well which is why more closure would be much longer than a simple exit
ticket.

Essential Questions
(Formative Questions)

What information can we get from a chart?

How do tables and charts help us organize our thinking?

How can I collect data from my classmates?

Assessments:
Type of assessment

Description of assessment

Modifications to the assessment so

that all students could demonstrate
their learning.

Singing game

Formative

Discussion and
observations
Share out (verbal)

Formative

Summative

Tally graph

Formal

Recipe writing tasks

Ell can supplement answers with

Spanish words

Evaluation Criteria - What evidence of

student learning (related to the learning
objectives and central focus) does the
assessment provide?
Given a game, students will sing Make New
friends, maintaining tone quality, pitch,
rhythm, tempo.
Given the opportunity to share, students
will explain why eating nutrition rich food
like oatmeal will promote health, recalling
at least two details from the class discussion
about oatmeal.

Given a graph template, students will
represent, and interpret data, to determine
who was the winner of the oatmeal contest
with 100% accuracy.
Given the graphs they created, students will
count the tally marks on their graphs to
determine the winner of the contest, and
how many are in each category with 90 %
accuracy
Given a recipe template, students will write
a recipe for friendship, listing at least three
items



Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks
PLAN IT/TEACH IT LESSON ARE MINI LESSONS (15-20MIN)

Students will:

Procedure

Teacher will:

Anticipatory Set
__5___ minutes

Divide students in to three groups.

Ask students to raise their hands if they:
Ever helped mom or dad cook at home?

Ever experimented with new recipes to make
something taste better?
Ever participated in a baking contest?
Who knows why I asked you all to bring in one
apple peeled and chopped up?

Today we are going to have a contest, each group
will make their own recipe for oatmeal and later we
will taste them all to see which one is the best
tasting!

Brainstorming,
Assessing Prior
Knowledge, Do Now,
Question of the day,
literature,
think/pair/share,
group activity, visual
or video

How can I collect data from my classmates

to find out which oatmeal is the best?

Sit in groups at large tables

(already arranged previously)

Raise hands


Guess and raise hands










Access prior knowledge and
think of graphs

Modifications (RTI/UDL
Strategies)

Allow students to share their ideas for recording.

Learning Tasks
and
Instructional
Strategies
___10__ minutes
Demonstration,
Guided Practice,

After class discussion, lead the class in creating a
chart using tally marks.
Create a chart like the one below (see attachment) on
the dry erase board but use three types of candy.
Explain how a graph should be labeled.

Allow students to place a tally mark on the chart to

show their favorite candy. After all the tally marks
have been recorded, ask students the following
questions:
How did we represent each students vote?
How many people chose (chocolate) as their favorite
sport?
Which candy did students like the most?
Which candy did students like the least?
Can you think of other questions we can ask that
could be answered by the information on this graph?
Erase the tally marks and change the word candy
to oatmeal. Tell students we will be using this
same chart to help us determine which group
made the best oatmeal.

Place a tally mark on the

chart to show their favorite
candy.


Read data on chart and
Answer questions

Stay in groups and follow
along with the teacher to
make their oatmeal

Provide pre-typed instructions

in Spanish

Repeat directions when
needed

Peer buddy

Independent
Practice/Explor
ation of
Concepts
Part I
__25__ minutes

Practice/implement
skills; cooperative
learning; group work,
etc.

Consider transitions:
supply distribution
and clean up.

Recess
25 min

(Items for oatmeal will already be divvied up for

each table)
Put instructions on overhead and pass out
procedure to each group (attached below)
Remind students they must follow me when
doing the steps and do not get ahead!

Make oatmeal (follow attachment below)

Label the crock-pots with #1, #2, #3

without the students knowing which
number they made, so when they vote
they will not be biased towards their own

oatmeal.

Independent
Practice/Explor
ation of
Concepts
30 min

Practice the idea of making new
friends but holding on to our
old friends as well and singing
Outside or inside depending on weather
the song together.
Ask students to form a circle and practice singing

the song we learned in a previous lesson-

Make new friends, but keep the old, one is

silver and the other is gold

Play game while singing- students hold hands and
walk around in circle. Teacher picks one student to

step out of the circle and walk around it and then
pick a new friend to walk with him or her. The new
friend then picks another and they walk around the

circle together. Keep this up until all students are

picked and a huge line is formed. The last person

picked gets to be the one to start it again.





Part II

Pass out graph paper with horizontal graph
Label their graphs
already drawn (see attachment) to each student
Write votes on the bottom
and tell them they need to label their graph the
under the graph
same way we did earlier.



Refer them to large graph display created earlier.


Ask for two students to pass out the 3 Dixie

Clean up and go to recess break

Singing and movement during
break

cups to each child

Ask students to label their cups labeled
with #1, #2, and #3) then line up and I will
give them each a sample of oatmeal that
they made (They will not know which one
is theirs)

Label the cups with #1, #2,

#3 and line up to get
oatmeal.



Sample each oatmeal and

Repeat directions when
needed








Provide assistance and extra
support with task.

Ask students to smell then taste the

oatmeal from each cup and decide which
one is their favorite.

Write down the # that is their favorite
On a bright colored post it and place it
in the middle of their desk.

Pass out class name checklist to each
student. Read the names together as a class
Instruct them to check off the name when
you record their answer on your graph.
(This will help prevent confusion and
repeated tallies.)

Instruct students to take their graphs with
them, walk around the room quietly, read
the number on each students desk and
make a tally mark in the correct box on
their graph.
Model for them how to do this.
Emphasize this is a silent activity, talking is
not required.

When every one is done have them return
to their seats and count up each tally mark
for each oatmeal to determine the winner.

Instruct them to record next to each
oatmeal the total number of votes (tallys)

Circle the winner in red marker, and then

decide on the favorite and

Write down the # that is their
favorite on a bight colored post
it and place it in the middle of
their desk





Read names together on check
list






Walk around the room quietly,
read the number on each
students desk and make a tally
mark in the correct box on their
graph.

Return to their seats and

count up each tally mark to
determine the winner.

Circle the winner in red
marker

check my large chart.

(I will have done the same thing on my large
chart display, I will reveal it only after they all
circle their winner and they will check their
tallies with mine after they circle in red their
winner. This way I can assess what their
original answer was before they can change it)

Reveal the names that go with the number and
tell them they can add the different names
each group came up with to label their oatmeal
on the boxes on left side of column of the large
graph display for class.

Check their tallies with my large
chart display then hand in

their charts.

Ask them write their names on their

graphs hand in their charts.


Congratulate the group who won and tell them

they worked great together on this activity.


Finish eating all the oatmeal
Finish eating all the oatmeal



Nutrition
Answer question
Ask students if they think Oatmeal is a healthy

food or a junk food?



Explain that I chose to make oatmeal because

it is a very nutritious food that can be made

into something very tasty.



Mini discussion on nutrition



What is in the oatmeal we made that makes it
Relate and discus what they
so nutritious. (Define nutritious if necessary)
know about nutrition.
Oats- protein and energy, fruit- vitamins,

keep us from getting sick, nuts and milk also

provide protein.

Define protein, and we can get it in our bodies
from eating animals and plants.

Explain the nutritional benefits of eating
healthy food.

Emphasize what we did today was make

a plain healthy food very tasty and we
can always do that if we are creative.

Closure
___15_ minutes

Writing
component, tie
it into bulletin
board.

Verbal Share
out

Think about what friendship

means to them and what words
Model for class- I based mine on the oatmeal
they want to use to show their
recipe but you can use my measurements or
ideas.
change them however you want.

Write on smart board using recipe template

(attached below)

3 cups of fun

1/2 cup of sharing
Write their recipes using the
A dash of kindness
templates provided
A sprinkle of listening

A sprinkle of just being there!



PROVIDE students with templates for the recipe

(attached below)



You can use any words you want, this is only an

example


We will be putting these on our Friendship board

please use your best form for your letters!
Share what things they learned

today from making the oatmeal
Ask each student to share what things they
learned today from making the oatmeal together. together

Prompt them to think about, friendship, how we

Write a recipe for friendship

Translate words for measuring

to Spanish, Ell can supplement
answers with Spanish words

determined the winner of the contest, and

nutrition if they do not offer this on their own.

Instructional Resources, Materials and References:
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/math/standards/
4 crock pots, oatmeal, milk, water, secret ingredients cinnamon, brown sugar, cranberries, raisins, walnuts, sunflower seeds, dates, apples, dried
cherries maple syrup, vanilla, measuring cups large spoons, index card, templates for the recipe, butcher paper, markers, graph paper sheets for
each student, Dixie cups, spoons, nutrition words defined and translated

Rationale Prior to Teaching:

Ideally this would be done with the help of an assistant teacher or parent involvement to help supervise during the making of the oatmeal, which
would allow me more time to observe. However it could be done without the extra help. Students will have prior experiences creating a tally chart,
however measuring the items they may or may not have had experience at home with therefore I will be guiding this process. Not knowing their
individual experiences with measuring was why a chose a very simple recipe. If there were a nut allergy in the class I would eliminate the nuts.
Children at this age can be competitive and I expect they will have a lot of fun learning with this activity. We will make the oatmeal in the morning
and finish the lesson on data collection after a recess break, which will allow the oatmeal to cook. Friendship and the concept working together to
create something will be emphasized during the lesson. I do not expect them to remember all the terms about nutrition they learned today. I just want
them to take away the idea that it is important to eat healthy and eating healthy does not have to be boring!

Attachments:

Oatmeal recipe and procedure

(Put on overhead and give a copy to each group, teacher will be modeling steps as students follow along)
Instructions:

1. Decide if you want to use milk or water (discuss with your group, take a vote if you cannot decide)
2. Choose and then circle your three secret ingredients from this list: cinnamon, brown sugar, cranberries,
raisins, walnuts, dates, dried cherries, maple syrup, vanilla (allow students to taste any item they want to try,
check for nut allergies)
3. Create a name for your oatmeal
4. Write on index cards- all your own names, name of your oatmeal and your three secret ingredients.
5. Take turns doing each step and help each other follow the instructions as I guide you!
Procedure
1. Measure 3 cups of water or milk and pour into crock-pot (unplugged and not hot yet)
2. Measure 1 and cup of dry oats add to crock-pot and stir
3. Add the apples you each brought to school today, stir
4. Last step- add your secret ingredients, stir and cover. (Remember too much of any ingredient will
not taste good, be sensible)-Teacher will supervise this last step by carrying a tray of the secret ingredient to
ach group and monitoring how much they add)
5. Teacher will plug in crock-pots

Name__________________________

Oatmeal Class favorites

Oatmeal #1
(Students will create
the name)

Oatmeal #2







Oatmeal #3



Votes