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Grade: 1st                              Integrated Discipline:  science

 

NE Standards:

1.1.1.  By the end of first grade, the students will communicate the sequential nature of the number system. 

1.1.2.  By the end of first grade, the students will communicate the mathematical relations of the number system. 

1.1.4.  By the end of first grade, the students will demonstrate the value of numbers (0-20) using concrete objects.

1.2.1.  By the end of first grade, the students will demonstrate the concepts of addition and subtraction up to 10.

 

Objectives:

- To find all of the chocolate chips in their cookies

- To count the chocolate chips

- To make groups of ten chips

- To count by tens

 

Assessment:

- The students will each take their cookies and break them apart finding all of the chocolate chips.  They must count their chips and put them in groups of ten a cup.  At the end the class will add up all of the chips (by adding the groups of ten) to see if they get 1.000 chips in a bag of cookies.

 

Provisions for Special Needs:

Help them to break apart the cookie and count out groups of ten.

 

Materials:

Chips Ahoy!  Chocolate Chip Cookies

Small cups

 

Procedure:

 

Vocabulary:

Grouping

Arithmetic

Equals

Plus

 

Springboard:

 

T:  Ask the students how many chocolate chips are supposed to be in a bag of Chips Ahoy!  Tell them that they bag says it is to have 1,000 chips

 

S:  The students must wash their hands before this activity.

 

Activities:

 

T:  Hand out some cookies to each student until the cookies are all gone.  

 

S:  Break apart the cookies and pick out all of the chocolate chips.

 

T:  Hand out small cups to each student.   Tell them to group their chips into tens and put ten in each cup.

 

S:  Put ten chips in each cup

 

T:  Ask the students to help you add up all of the chips found.  Gather all of the cups of ten.

S:  Count by tens to see how many chips they have.  Each cup is equal to ten chips.  See if there really are 1,000 chips.

 

Closure:

Let the students if the cookies if they are not too messy or crumbled.  Explain to the students how they used math to group the chips into tens and to add by tens. 

 

References: 

http://lessonplanspage.com/MathArithmetic1.htm

 

Reflection:

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