Intern Name: Greta Hahn

Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): Quarantine Shopping!

Grade: 4th
Length of Lesson: 20-30 minutes
Date Taught: 3/29/2020
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson… Students will be practicing adding and subtracting decimals in a
real-life scenario of going shopping in the grocery store.
Overview

The student will…

Standards of Learning
Essential Questions
4.6 a.) Add and subtract with decimals
b.) Solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition and
subtraction with fractions and decimals
How much change did I have left after shopping?
Was it hard to keep track of how much money I had?
What was my favorite item I bought?

Students will be able to…

● Go grocery shopping and understand how much money they have to
spend.
Objectives ● Understand subtracting and adding decimals for finding their total
amount of money.

I can go grocery shopping using $50 and calculate how much money I spend
Learning Target using addition and subtraction
● I know how to upload work to Schoology
Necessary Prior
● I understand adding and subtracting decimals
Knowledge
● Chromebook
● piece of paper for solving problems
Materials ● printable money

https://youtube.be/LqUCTZaZcZA
Introduction/Hook
Instructional 1. Go onto the google document
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I30_7BBDDiiFIAm6umK_rNB6B
Activities & Sa8WyWgZoPqLKVU4Jo/edit?usp=sharing
Strategies 2. On the google document create a shopping list
3. Print out your “money” to go shopping with, you have up to $50. You
can print a $50 bill, 5 $10 bills, 50 $1 bills, 10 $5 bills, however, you
want your cash to be you can make it!
4. To select the money you would like to choose, press the picture of the
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
 bill
https://www.dadsworksheets.com/worksheets/money-printable-play-
money.html
5. Using the Food Lion website find how much your product is worth
https://shop.foodlion.com/?_ga=2.54717547.1789172800.1585492852-
1586226494.1585492852
6. Use the tabs at the top of the Food Lion website, such as Deli & Bakery,
to help locate the food you want
7. Once choosing an item you want to purchase, subtract that item’s
worth from $50, show your work on a piece of paper.
8. Continue for the rest of your grocery list with the remaining money
9. Calculate how much money you have left if any!
10. Upload grocery list and scratch piece of paper to show your work

● budget
● total
Key Vocabulary or
● sum
Concepts ● change

The assessment is making sure the students understand subtracting and

adding decimals, by them subtracting products from their $50 is testing their
knowledge. Making sure they have the correct amount of money left over! I
Assessments will know if the students did this correctly by the student’s uploading their
math work into Schoology along with their list, this tests to see if they are
subtracting decimals correctly.
Have the students share what is on their grocery list to the rest of the class,
share if they spent their $50 or have change left and upload their math scratch
Closure Activity sheet in Schoology.

Making sure students have access to online sources, wifi, etc.

Accommodations

Resources
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I30_7BBDDiiFIAm6umK_rNB6BSa8Wy
WgZoPqLKVU4Jo/edit?usp=sharing

https://shop.foodlion.com/?_ga=2.54717547.1789172800.1585492852-
1586226494.1585492852

https://www.dadsworksheets.com/worksheets/money-printable-play-
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
 money.html

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1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit your lesson?
I thought of what the students were last working on in school before we left to help plan this lesson, I thought
it might be fun to give a real-life scenario to relate on what is truly going on around us right now. To make
quarantine a little more fun I thought it would be nice for the kids to be able to think of anything they could buy
from the grocery store.
2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
The SOL and objectives helped me focus my instruction because the objectives helped me plan my lesson and
what to focus on such as adding and subtracting decimals.

3. What parts of the instructional plan worked as you anticipated?

The parts of the lesson that worked well were using the grocery website and being able to browse around and
look at all the items as you would in the store. This helps know exactly how much each product is worth, how
much you are able to buy, and somewhat have a true feeling as if you were at the grocery store!

4. What, if any, adjustments need to be made once you began?

I needed to find something that the students could use as “money”. This helps have the realistic look of actually
shopping in a grocery store and having something tangible.

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

I believe I anticipated the materials well since the assignment is online the students should be prepared with a
charged Chromebook, they have the option to show their work either online or on a piece of notebook paper.

6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what will the future
assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?)
I think my assessment was effective, I thought making the students show their work instead of using a
calculator will help them with their skills of addition and subtraction with decimals. By submitting their work to
me I can look over it and see if they calculated their change or spending correctly.
7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you have for the success of
the lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!)
Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
I feel like this lesson was a success! I wanted the kids to have fun and be creative with what they would buy to
help them survive quarantine yet practice their math skills. I will know this lesson was a success if the students
do their math correctly, have fun, and create a grocery list to survive on!

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to its success?
I believe the time spent on my lesson paid off on its success, I had to go back and make some changes and add
things to be more specific but I think it has paid off.

9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently? If so, what?
I would want to do this lesson in person in the class! Maybe set up a school store in the classroom and have the
students practice their decimals and spending money with Mrs. Hillier and I there to help them!

10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?

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John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)
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Adapted from the Teacher Cadet Curriculum, Property of CERRA—South Carolina © 2004, and/or the Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow Curriculum
John M. Merritt, English Teacher at Kellam High School (Virginia Beach City Public Schools)