Name: Allison Hirata

Grade Level: 1
Title of Lesson Plan: Addition

Summary: Students will be introduced to addition through addition stories. Students will
participate in finding addends, creating an equation, and finding the total amount of different
objects.

Student Learning Objective: State standards 2.OA.1, 2.OA.2

Students will understand what it means to find the total or how many there are altogether.
Students will also learn how to compose addition equations. Students will be able to understand
the basic ideas of addition and apply their knowledge by creating a story problem based off a
given equation.

Materials Used by the Teacher:

Power point presentation
Dry erase board
Dry erase markers
Field Trip story

Materials Used by the Students:

Tangible counters (if needed)
Dry personal size erase boards (1 per student)

 Dry erase markers (1 per student)

Technologies Used by the Teacher:

Power point presentation

Technologies Used by the Students:

Computer program Kid Pix (optional)

Instructional Procedures:
Read the story Field Trip with the students and present illustrations on slides 2-5.
Present students with the final question: How many lions were there altogether? Allow students
to discuss and contribute their thoughts, answers, and ideas (slide 6).
Once students have discusses, move to slides 7 and 8 to help them through the steps of finding
how many lions there are. Prompt counting if needed.
Move on to slide 9 and ask the question: How did we find the answer? Allow students to
contribute their thoughts and praise their participation. If students do not come up with idea of
addition, introduce the idea to the students and move on to slide 10.
Slide 11, introduce key words of addition and explain that when adding we are trying to find the
total, the sum, or how many there are altogether.
Work as a class to find the sum for the word problem on slide 13. Ask for volunteers to share key
numbers and words they see in the problem (4, 3, altogether). Present the blank equation on slide
14 and ask students how they think they will fill it in. Ask for volunteers to contribute their ideas

on their personal dry erase boards. Move on to slides 15 and 16 to complete the problem. Allow
students to use tangible counters if needed.
Slide 18, read the word problem aloud and allow the students to work on their own to come up
with an equation and solution. Present slide 19 as a prompt to help students remember what to
do. Ask students to share their answers and thoughts. Present slide 20 to confirm the solution and
have students check their work and make corrections if needed. Repeat for apple example on
slides 21-23.
Slide 25, have students apply their knowledge.
Extensions:
As a final assessment present the equation 7+2=9 on slide 25 and have students come up with
their own short story and draw a picture that illustrates it. Allow students to options to use paper
and crayons, markers, or the KidPix program on the computer. Allow students time to work.
Students will present their illustrations and stories to follow.

Assessment Plan:
Students performance will be assessed through class participation as well as through ability to
create and illustrate a simple word story. Class participation can be in the form of verbal
contributions and/or raising their thoughts and ideas on the dry erase boards that are provided.
Students may verbally state their story problem or choose to write it if they feel they can.
Students will not be graded on accuracy of spelling, but rather if they are able to construct a
problem using the correct numbers provided.
3 points

2 points

1 point

Student was able to

participate in class
discussions by verbally
sharing thoughts and/or
contributing answers on
their dry erase board.

Student was able to

participated in class
discussions more than
once.

Student was able to

contribute to class
discussions at least
once.

Student was able to

create a story problem
that accurately
represented the
equation.

Story made sense and

Student attempted to
the appropriate numbers create a story problem
were included.
but had difficulties using
numbers appropriately.

Student did not attempt

to make story problem.

Student was able to

illustrate story problem
accurately.

Student was able to

illustrate story problem.
Illustration matched the
word problem and
accurately displayed
items representing
numbers in the
equation.

Student did not attempt

an illustration.

Student attempted to
create an illustration
corresponding to word
problem.

Student did not share.

Field Trip Story:

Slide 2: Ms. Browns class took a filed trip to the zoo. All the students were very excited to see
all the different animals.
Slide 3: Ms. Brown asked the class what animal they were most excited to see.
Slide 4: Jimmy said he really wants to see the lions.
Slide 5: When they got to the lion cage, the students saw 3 lions sitting under the tree, and 2 lions
drinking water. How many lions did Ms. Browns class see altogether?