Pre service Teachers Name: Emalie Gordon

Mentor Teachers Name: Szilvia Smith

School: Leongatha Primary School
Year level: Grade One
VELS Level: Level One
Lesson Title: Addition from 0-20 using number lines
Lesson Duration: 60mins
Lesson Time and Date: Monday 23/2/15, 1:45-2:45
Lesson Aims
- Review prior knowledge (counting to 20 and back, addition facts to 10)
- Teach students how to represent worded and number problems on a number line- addition only (activity
one and three)
- Teach students other ways to represent addition problems (activity two)
Learning Outcomes (use appropriate curriculum framework)
VELS Strands
Domain/s
Dimension/s
Discipline-based
Number and Algebra
Number and place value
Learning

Standard/s
For the children to count on and
count back to, and add and
subtract numbers to 20

Childrens Prior Learning (what do the children already know/what have they covered?)
- are able to count to and from 20
- are able to identify numbers on a number line
- are able to order numbers from smallest to largest on a number line
- are able to solve simple addition
Teaching Skill Development (What do you want to develop as a teacher?)
- ability to deliver a lesson in its entirety (plan, introduce, deliver, conclude, evaluate)
- ability to deliver clear instruction
- classroom management (specifically, getting the students attention when currently on task in different
groups)

Teaching and Learning Preparation (resources etc)

- dominoes
- dice
- laminated number lines
- develop worded problems for activity one
- addition strategies booklet
- laminated dinosaur addition sheets

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Session Structure
Lesson Phase
Orientation /Introduction
How best to motivate and
explain the importance of
this lesson? This should be
for about 5 minutes with
links to prior learning or
experiences.

Teaching strategy/Learning
Activities
What will support the
students to learn the
concepts you are trying to
teach and to reach the
learning outcomes? How
will you cater for a diversity
of learning needs?

Review:
- counting to and back from 20
- what are characteristics of number lines (can start from any number)
Introduce:
- what is addition? (the joining of two or more groups)
- discuss using examples in the class (If I had two girls and three boys,
when I join these two groups of children, I am adding them together to get a
total number)

Whole class focus: 10min

- Dominoes (draw replica on whiteboard, point out the two sections, add
them together, tell children this is the sum/total of the two amounts,
distribute dominoes, have children take turns to say the total of their
sections)
*Would this be different if it was 4+2 instead of 2+4?
- demonstrate on whiteboard what this would look like on number line?
- get the students to write on their own number lines different domino
additions that teacher provides
- Dice (roll three dice, what is the sum? how to represent on number line?
repeat and get the students to represent on their own number line)
Small group focus: 10-15min rotation
Activity One- Number line problems on floor
Pose worded problems and have the children suggest solutions and discuss
strategies. Write up number problem from this. Select child to represent on
the number line.
Repeat with different problems
Activity Two- Addition strategies booklet
Various activities that ask for different ways to represent addition (fingers,
unifix, number lines, ten frames, counters and pictures)
Activity Three- Dinosaur number line addition
Solve multiple addition sums using a number line.

Conclusion /Closure
How will you capture the
main ideas of the lesson?
Recap/revision etc.

Whole class focus 5min

- brief discussion on some of the ways the students learnt how to represent
addition problems

Assessment Strategies
Post- test
What are the assessment
strategies used throughout
this lesson? These should be
closely aligned to your
lesson aims. How you will
you record student learning
outcomes?

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Pre-service teacher self evaluation

Needs Improvement

Teaching / Learning
Dimension
Introduction to the
lesson

Progressing

Rating

Achieving Well

Comments

Planning &
organisation of
materials, resources
Communication with
students; explanation,
questioning skills etc.
Selection of learning
tasks

Monitoring/assessment
of student learning
throughout the lesson

- needed to set more independent

tasks

Conclusion of lesson;
transition to next
lesson

Reflection
What was good about this lesson? Why?
- students were engaged with activities provided

How might this lesson have been improved?

- prepare and inform students of tasks they can complete if they finish early
- prepare and inform students of tasks for students of a wide ability
- introduce the lesson smoother, focusing on the larger picture first then narrowing in on the lesson ahead

What did you learn about teaching and learning (students and your own) from this lesson?
- skill diversity and the fact each lesson has to cater for a variety of needs
- ALWAYS prepare tasks for early finishers/ and gifted students

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Mentor Teachers Evaluation

Teaching / Learning
Dimension
Introduction to the
lesson

Planning &
organisation of
materials, resources
Communication with
students; explanation,
questioning skills etc.
Selection of learning
tasks

Monitoring/assessment
of student learning
throughout the lesson

Conclusion of lesson;
transition to next
lesson

Rating

Comments

Little confusing. The flow was a bit

disrupted by the counting to 20 after
you spoke about the adding on a
number line.
Excellent planning. Loved the flip
book

Good job.

Great.

Need to roam a bit more as children at

tables were either finished or a little
confused.

Good.

Any other comments: (e.g. learning goals for next teaching activity)
- Always make sure children dont have things to fiddle with on the floor. Craig and Jay both had fans.
- Answer from number line using the number line rather than to check for the answer.
- Always have extra for children to do even if you think they wont get to it.

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