Melissa Quidor

Dr. Bulgar
ELD 375
16 April 2015
Math Lesson Plan #3
Comparing and Ordering by Temperature
Subject/Topic: 1st grade Mathematics: Measurement and Data
Rationale: This lesson is a whole group lesson that will be taught to my first grade students on
the topic of comparing and ordering by temperature. It is the topic that the students will next
need to learn based on the gradual progression of their mathematical learning. Also, being able
to order things in terms of their temperature is a very helpful, real life skill to learn. I was given
a worksheet from my cooperating teacher on this topic, and while I do not intend to use it with
the students during this lesson, having the worksheet from the Envision math program helped me
immensely in my planning because it gave me direction in terms of the kinds of problems the
students would be expected to understand. My college professor, Dr. Bulgar, also really was a
great resource to me when planning this lesson as she gave me some great ideas for a game I
could play with the students to help them to get practice with the topic I will be teaching them.
My textbook for ELD 375, Elementary and Middle School Mathematics, also really helped to
guide this plan as it discusses how to break topics down for students to ensure they are
understanding things on a deep level and not only memorizing and quickly forgetting the content.
Standards:
Represent and interpret data.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.C.4 Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to
three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how
many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
Objective: SWBAT compare three objects based on their temperatures and use prior knowledge
about the objects temperature to order them from hottest to coldest.
Materials:
Mentor text, Temperature by Rebecca Olien
White board and markers
Cup of ice, cup of water, coffee cup
Hottest/Coldest game cards for each group
Procedure:
Anticipatory Set:
Gather students on the carpet and write the words: temperature, hot, and cold on the
white board.
Read page 1 of the book Temperature, to the students to give them some background
knowledge about temperature and the different terms we will be using.
Mentor:
After reading the excerpt from the book, I will write the simple definition of temperature
on the board:
o Temperature How hot or cold something is
We will then create a list together on the board of different things that are hot and
different things that are cold.
Guided Practice:

I will place three items on the table where everyone can see them (cup of ice cubes, cup
of water, and a coffee cup)
I will ask students to turn and talk to a partner next to them and decide what order the
objects should be placed in if we are ordering them form coldest to hottest and why they
think that.
o After getting ample students participation and answers with reasoning, we will
decide as a class what order we think the objects should go in.
Independent Practice:
After completing the mini-lesson component of this math lesson, I will break students
into purposeful groups that I have created beforehand to play the hottest/coldest ordering
game.
o This game consists of students getting various groups of 3 notecards that have
pictures/words of different objects written on them.
o They must look at the 3 notecards and order the cards from coldest to hottest
based on the objects on the cards in each group.
o There will be differentiated groups of cards based on students levels in each
group.
Closure:
After completing the hottest/coldest ordering game, I will have each group of students
create their own round of the hottest/coldest game and complete it.
I will then have each group share their created round with the rest of the class.
Assessment:
Discussion about the terms temperature, hot/hottest, cold/coldest.
List of hot things and cold things we come up with together and write on the board.
Turn and talk/Group decision about what order the three objects (ice, water, coffee)
would go in if we order them from coldest to hottest.
Group answers for the different hottest/coldest game rounds.
Other considerations:
There are some ESL students in the classroom, they may need the terms temperature,
hot/hottest, cold/coldest broken down and defined very simply.
Some students may grasp this concept of comparing and ordering objects by their
temperature rather quickly. If this is the case, I will have different rounds of the game
ready in varying difficulty in order to accommodate for the higher level learners.
o If some students move through the content of the lesson very quickly, I will set up
a more difficult hottest/coldest activity for them.
This activity will be that there is a group of 3 cups of water of varying
temperatures. The students will have to use their prior knowledge from
science that they have acquired this year and take the temperature of the
different cups of water to determine the specific temperatures of the water
and order them from hottest/coldest