5E Lesson Plan

Teacher: Thrusia Ann Williams

Date: 2/23/20321
Subject / grade level: 5Th Grade
Materials:
Growing by Powers of Ten Chart worksheet (education.com)
Scratch paper
One sticky note per student
Dice

TEKS/NCTM/CCRS expectations:
(b) Knowledge and skills.
(1) Mathematical process standards. The student uses mathematical processes to acquire and
demonstrate mathematical understanding. The student is expected to:
(E) create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas;

Lesson objective(s):
Students will be able to multiply by powers of 10 with exponents.
Students will be able to describe what happens to the size of a number as it is multiplied by powers of 10.

 Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs:  

 Give students the Growing by Powers of Ten Challenge Problems to complete. Also have them
complete the Growing by Powers of Ten Chart on their own or paired with another advanced student.
  Give your students base ten blocks to use in the chart. Have them draw a picture if they need more
visuals of the multiplication problems.

ENGAGEMENT
X Describe how the teacher will capture students’ interest. (Choose a big block of base ten and ask what if this was money how much would they have?

X What kind of questions should the students ask themselves after the engagement? (How high can a exponent go up to?)

EXPLORATION
Describe what hands-on/minds-on activities students will be doing.
• List “big idea” conceptual questions the teacher will use to encourage and/or focus students’ exploration

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EXPLANATION
• Student explanations should precede introduction of terms or explanations by the teacher. What questions or techniques will the teacher use to help
students connect their exploration to the concept under examination?
• List higher order thinking questions which teachers will use to solicit student explanations and help them to justify their explanations.

ELABORATION
• Describe how students will develop a more sophisticated understanding of the concept.
• What vocabulary will be introduced and how will it connect to students’ observations?
• How is this knowledge applied in our daily lives?

EVALUATION
• How will students demonstrate that they have achieved the lesson objective?
• This should be embedded throughout the lesson as well as at the end of the lesson

Teacher: Thrusia Ann Williams

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Date: 2/23/20321

Subject / grade level: 5Th Grade

TEKS/NCTM/CCRS expectations:
(b) Knowledge and skills.
(1) Mathematical process standards. The student uses mathematical processes to acquire and
demonstrate mathematical understanding. The student is expected to:
(E) create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas;

Materials:
Growing by Powers of Ten Chart worksheet
Scratch paper
One sticky note per student
Dice

Learning Objectives
Students will be able to describe what happens to the size of a number as it is multiplied by powers of 10.
Students will be able to explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying by powers of
10.

Materials and preparation

Pencils
Base ten blocks
Growing by Powers of Ten Chart
Whiteboard and markers

Introduction (5 minutes)
To begin the lesson, activate students' prior knowledge by using base ten blocks to review powers of 10.
With the blocks, show a unit and ask what the value is. Write 1 on the board.
Show a rod and ask what the value is. Write 10 on the board.
Then, show a flat and ask what the value is. Write 100 on the board.
Last, show a cube and ask what the value is. Write 1000 on the board.
Ask students what would come after 1000. Write 10,000 on the board.
If appropriate for your students, go to 100,000 and 1,000,000.
Keep all of the numbers you wrote on the board for the next part of the lesson.

Teacher modeling (15 minutes)

Now, explain to students that the numbers on the board represent powers of ten.
Pass out the Growing by Powers of Ten Chart.
Tell students that they are going to work together to fill in the chart, which will then be used to help them
solve powers of ten multiplication problems.
Go over each column heading for the chart.
Ask students if they know what an exponent is. Explain that an exponent is a shorthand way to tell how
many times to use a number in multiplication problems.
Talk through filling the chart, one row at a time.
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Once the chart is filled in, ask students what patterns they notice.
Make sure students understand that each power represents an increase of 10 times the number.

Guided Practice (5 minutes)

Tell students that they will now use the chart to help solve a set of problems involving multiplying by
powers of ten.
Write 3 x 10 to the one power on the board. Explain that because it is 10 to the one power, the problem is
still 3 x 10.
Ask students for the answer. Write 30 on the board.
Continue modeling by writing: 3 x 10 to the 2 power = 300. 3 x 10 to the 3 power = 3000. 3 x 10 to the
fourth power = 30,000. 3 x 10 to the fifth power = 300,000. 3 x 10 to the sixth power = 3,000,000.
Once you have reached 3,000,000, stop and ask students what happened as they multiplied by another

power of ten. Make sure they understand that the answers grew by zero, and that represents a power of
ten.

Differentiation
Enrichment: Give my students the Growing by Powers of Ten Challenge Problems to complete.
Depending on how advanced they are, you may also have them complete the Growing by Powers of Ten
Chart on their own or paired with another advanced student.

Support: Give my students base ten blocks to use in the chart. Have them draw a picture if they need
more visuals of the multiplication problems.

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