Grade: 4

Big Idea: Fractions and decimals are types of numbers that can represent quantities.

Content: Date:
Financial Literacy - monetary calculations, including making change with amounts to 100 dollars and July 15th, 2021
making simple financial decisions

Lesson: You class won $100 to spend on a pizza party. How will you spend the money? Essential Supports
(designed for 1, useful for 1)

• Differentiated activities:
• How many whole pizzas will we
Mini Lesson: Students will decide on how to spend their $100 on an upcoming pizza party for their need to order for everyone to
class. Teacher will review different ways they can budget their pizza party by counting up or counting have one slice of pizza?
• Complete a survey on which
down. pizza flavour is the most popular
Processing Tasks

I Need to… I Must… I Can… I Could… I Can Try to… Targeted Support
(designed for some, useful for some)
• Provide • Provide • Encourage • Allow student • Get
explicit students with students to on laptops to students to • Laptops to research different
fake money think about research their pizza places
instruction plan • Provide choices of pizzas with
• Show an of $100 including drinks own pizza place delivery/ whole numbers (no decimal
example • Provide flyers in their pizza they would like pick up in places in prices)
plan of pizza party as well to order from $100
places budget
Universal Supports
(designed for some, useful for all)
Access All Most Few Challenge
• Explicit instructions
• Showing an example
• Provide manipulatives (fake
Transforming & Personalizing Activity: To personalize the activity the students will vote on what kind of money)
pizza they would like so students can accommodate their pizza order to the flavours their classmates • Pizza flyers
would like.

Lesson Planning Template – Shelley Moore, 2018 Adapted from Brownlie & Schnellert