College of Education and the Liberal Arts

Understand by Design Lesson Plan

Date: 3/27/2022 Name: Benjamin Yeomans

Lesson Title: Ingredients to Cooking. Fractions

Grade: 5th

Time Frame: 50 mins

Common Core State Standards 5.NF: Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract
overview fractions. #1
Standards
Michigan Content Standards: Students can add and subtract fractions.
&
Reword standards to present them to I can
students (I can statements)
Integration Standards (Art, Music,
another core subject, etc.):
Michigan Content Standards:
& I can
Reword standards to present them to
students (I can statements)
Michigan K-12 Computer Science (CS)
Standards
&
I can
Reword standards to present them to
students (I can statements)
Social Emotional Learning
or
Social Emotional Artistic Learning
Essential Question(s):
How are fractions in everyday life?

Enduring Learning: How things can be turned into parts and

divided that way.
Big Idea: Be able to add and subtract fractions by using
common denominators.
Daily Objectives: Can the students add and subtract numbers.
Assessment: This will have the students using the measuring tools and sand to
Performance task. help the students see the fractions and make the correct
G.R.A.S.P.S. portions for the recipe. Have the student watch you making the
cookies and enjoy the cookies.
● Goal: Students should be able to make a larger recipe from the old
● What should students accomplish one.
by completing this task?
● Role: The students will be the Creators in this recipe.
● What role (perspective) will your
students be taking?
● Audience: The students
● Who is the relevant audience?
● Situation: The students will have to make the correct changes to the recipe
● The context or challenge provided to have it work properly.
to the student.
● Product/Performance: The students will receive the cookies that their recipe made.
● What product/ performance will They will be able to learn fractions with cooking.
the student create?
● Standards
● (Create the rubric for the
Performance Task)
Integration: This lesson will have the students understand fractions with
Interdisciplinary connections and cooking and how fractions can be used in real live.
multiple perspectives

Differentiation (at least 3):

Tailoring instruction to meet individual
● Coming along
needs. ○ Students can add and
● Enrichment:
● Intervention: subtract fractions with help.
20 Differentiated Instruction Strategies
● Achievement
and Examples. ○ Students can add and
subtract fractions with
manipulatives.
● Mastery
○ Students can add and
subtract fractions without
manipulatives.
STAGE 3- Learning Experiences / Lesson Plans
What sequence of teaching and learning experiences will equip students to develop and

Adapted from: Wiggins, G. P., & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by design (2nd ed.). ASCD KAN July 2021 2
demonstrate the desired understandings?
1. Ask the students if the have made and cookies before and explain
what is needed.
2. Then have the students look at the materials and see what
connections they can have to math.
3. Ask the students if they know what any of the conversion of the
different cups and spoons to each other. ETC.(3 ⅓ cup to 1 cup)
4. Then have the students look at the recipe and make sure that they
can be able to use the cups to identify what is being used.
5. Have the student make a new recipe that will make three times
more the recipes manke normally.
6. Have the students discuss what each of them has come up with and
try to make sure what they have found is actually what is needed by
using the measuring tools.
7. Finally have the student what the video of you making the cookies
comparing their recipe to yours.
8. Eat some good cookies.

Resources: ● Chocolate chip cookie recipe

● Bibliography ● Measuring cups, spoons, bowls
● Links ● Video of the baking.
● Equipment ● Sand
● Materials
● Field Trip
● Guest Speaker
Follow-Up:

Adapted from: Wiggins, G. P., & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by design (2nd ed.). ASCD KAN July 2021 3