Mental method
I want to teach the children how to add mentally without getting stuck. Their mental activity would be breaking up numbers in their head to make it easier to add so they understand the concept when adding up. For example this is how I would do this,
1). 50 + 77 is the same as
50 + 70 + 7, which is
127
Also there is another method of adding up in their head if they find this method difficult.
2). 98 + 78 is the same as
(90 + 70) + (8 + 8), which is
160 + 16, which is
176
As some may find the first method hard, trying and demonstrating a different one can boost up the child’s confidence on adding difficult sums.
Written method
Some children even may find adding up in their head difficult however the written method is there to aid them in adding up. The written method is showing what the units, hundred and thousands are. It is important to understand what these numbers are called as these are the basics and the foundations of adding up.
This is how I would teach the children the written method way of writing a sum down. It would be vital to show and demonstrate to the children how addition is done. (Figure 1 on the left)
The Lesson Plan of maths
For the starter of my lesson my first activity would be using the mental method of maths.
This activity involves two students paring up with each other. One person takes the lead of choosing any number they want and then other student has to guess what the Mystery number is. However the student will have to use the special terms of maths such as, E.g. is it an odd number? Is it an Even Number? Is it less than 10? Etc
The number cannot be more than 100. Both players will have 2 go’s each and then it will be the end of that activity.
This will last 15 minutes of the lesson.
The second part of the lesson would be explaining the different bonds of addition.
If they know their bonds to 10 and 20, this can help with bonds to 30 or 40. I will explain that it is the number of tens that change (for example, 6+4=10, 16+4=20, 16+14=30, and 26+14=40).
For this particular I ask the children to quickly find a bond to 10, 20, 30 and 40 on their whiteboards or jotters in pairs, keeping the original bond to 10 the same. The children will be placed in partners. This will be the same with subtraction. When asking the children to write the bonds of addition they will be asked the subtraction bonds therefore this will get them thinking.
This activity will last half an hour of the lesson.
My third part of the lesson will be using ICT methods from writing on the white boards as they get a mixture of the three methods and not just sitting down and adding on their fingers as this would be boring and non inspirational for the child. Also it de-motivated their eager to learn more leading to being non cooperative with the teacher.
This part of the lesson will be going on the computer and playing a game on a website called ‘Bitesize’. This is fun website made for all ages of school years.
As mentioned above this game will be played individually where they make pairs of 20 to enable the ride to work. After this task is completed, the game moves up a level to making pairs of 100.
After making pairs of 100 the child can select a number of their choice to make such as 60, 90, 40 etc. This gives them a variety of fun activities.
All three activities will have helped the students learn all the different methods of learning addition.
This will last 15 minutes of the remaining lesson.
The Lesson Plan of science - human body (functions and processes)
At key stage 2 of the topic humans and other animals it has been broken down to 5 different areas. This would be circulation. In circulation it describes that
- the heart acts as a jump to circulate the blood through vessels around the body including through the lungs
- About the effect of exercise and the explanation of the pulse rate.
Explaining the heart and the different functions lungs will automatically fall into the category for example, we breathe in oxygen to oxygenate the blood, which allows the heart to pump the oxygenated blood around the body.
The first part of the lesson is explaining the functions of the heart and lungs and how it works. Most importantly I will explain the names. Here use illustrations of the heart showing the positions of the four different chambers
This will last half an hour of the lesson
The second activity will be students paired up and I will ask questions that require 1 word answers. This is something that will be fun as children will be competing with each wanting to be the best out of everyone. It is a good way of boosting up the child’s confidence ion remembering the facts about the heart.
They answers will be written on their whiteboards that will be given to them. It is a quick way of writing down the answers and the children thinking of the answer on the spot.
This activity will last 15 minutes as it a quick activity. For the person who answers the most will be given 5 points to their group’s house.
The third activity is going to be used in the ICT room where the children will be asked to answer a variety of questions based on the lungs and heart together. There will be 10 questions on this quiz creating competition between the students once again. This encourages the child wanting to be the best one in the class.
This activity will last 15 minutes.
