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Are you an instructional coach or administrator seeking innovative ways to deliver a professional development session on enhancing student engagement in math? This customizable professional development (PD) template is an excellent starting point for guiding teachers on how to incorporate engaging, hands-on activities into their math instruction using their current curriculum. The template is fully editable, allowing you to personalize it with details specific to your curriculum, school environment, and even add photos or videos to further customize the experience.

Session Overview:

1. Experiencing Engagement from a Student’s Perspective: To kick off the session, teachers will participate in a variety of math activities within small groups, experiencing the learning process from a student’s point of view. These activities will range from traditional worksheets to more interactive and game-based approaches. Afterward, participants will reflect on their experiences and compare which method fostered higher engagement. By directly experiencing different learning strategies, teachers will gain a clearer understanding of what truly engages students and promotes deeper understanding.
2. Cognitive Engagement Quadrant Model: Following the activity, the Cognitive Engagement Quadrant Model (with a visual guide included) will be introduced to help teachers analyze the relationship between student participation and the level of cognitive demand. The model highlights four types of engagement:

• High participation with high-order thinking
• High participation with low-order thinking
• Low participation with high-order thinking
• Low participation with low-order thinking

Teachers will use this framework to reflect on their current practices and discover how to balance participation and critical thinking in their classrooms.

1. Multimedia Examples of Engaging Math Activities: To inspire creative approaches, the session includes a variety of video and picture examples showcasing real-world classroom scenarios where students are actively engaged in math lessons. Teachers will observe examples of hands-on learning, math games, and other dynamic activities that align with core math skills and concepts. These examples will serve as a practical resource for educators looking to transform their instruction.
2. Math Rotation Ideas & Engagement Strategies: Teachers will explore different strategies to maintain student interest and participation during math instruction, including rotation stations and game-based learning. These ideas are designed to provide teachers with concrete methods for incorporating student-centered activities into their lessons. By rotating through activities, students remain engaged while reinforcing their understanding of key math concepts in a collaborative and interactive setting.
3. Collaborative Problem-Solving Game: As part of the session, teachers will participate in a group-based algebra game that challenges them to solve an algebraic expression together. This hands-on game fosters teamwork, problem-solving, and engagement—skills that can easily be adapted to their own classrooms to make math more interactive and enjoyable for students.
4. Group Reflection and Anchor Chart Creation: At the conclusion of the PD, teachers will come together to collaborate on creating an anchor chart summarizing the key engagement strategies and takeaways from the session. This chart will serve as a reference for implementing these ideas in the classroom, and can also be shared with other staff members to extend the impact of the professional development across the school.

Research-Backed Approach: Engaging students through hands-on, interactive learning has been proven to enhance academic achievement. A study in a low-income elementary school found that students exposed to 12 weeks of hands-on learning experiences significantly outperformed their peers in classrooms using traditional textbook-based instruction (Guthrie et al., 2006). This PD leverages these insights to promote engaging, active learning environments that make a lasting impact on student performance.

**Customizable and Flexible:**This PD template is completely editable, giving you the flexibility to adapt it to your school’s specific curriculum and instructional goals. Whether you need to add school-specific materials, customize the activities, or include photos of your own classrooms in action, this template provides the framework to create a professional development session tailored to your teachers' needs.
By the end of the session, teachers will leave equipped with practical strategies to engage students, increase participation, and foster a deeper understanding of math concepts—all while making learning fun and meaningful for their students.

The topics and what is included:

• 24 pages of editable Google Slides. 
• An activity to show teachers the levels of engagement with different math activities. 
• Videos and pictures showing differing examples of engaging students during math. 
• An engaging math game to play with staff. 
• Engagement strategies that transfer to the classroom.

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Engage students with this interactive animated PowerPoint lesson to teach equivalent fractions. Available in Google Slides™ & PowerPoint, this instructional resource uses animation, supporting visuals, and meaningful questions to help students make meaning of fraction equivalence. This ready to teach lesson also includes a student note-taking guide, editable lesson plan, and exit ticket.  

This is the second lesson in the series of equivalent fractions lessons. The focus is to help students visualize fraction equivalence using area models in real-life situations.  This lesson builds off of Equivalent Fraction Lesson #1 and helps deepen students' understanding of equivalent fractions. 

Grab this CCSS aligned interactive lesson to save time on planning and help students solve real world story problems about equivalent fractions.

Little to NO PREP! This lesson is ready to teach! Download now and use this animated presentation today!

Includes:

★ Animated PowerPoint presentation with 38 slides

★ Google slides Animated Presentation

★ Detailed lesson plan (PDF)

★ Editable lesson plan (word)

★ Student Note-taking guide

★ Practice Worksheets

★ Self-grading Google Form™ exit tickets

★ Printable exit tickets

★ Answer Keys

★ Printable Learning objectives to display

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Purposely designed with powerful visual supports, scaffolded animations, and thought-provoking questions, this lesson will engage students in meaningful math talk as they learn about equivalent fractions.

The lesson focuses on the use of visual models and real-life examples to teach fraction equivalence. It does not include teaching the algorithm for generating equivalent fractions.  ​​Fractions with denominators: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, & 12 are used in this lesson. 

Animated slides reveal problems step by step

• Scaffolds instruction by slowly giving additional visual supports before revealing answer
• Gives students think time to understand concept
• Promotes student participation and active engagement during the lesson
• Allots for time to engage in meaningful math conversations with partners and as a whole group
• Provides powerful visual supports that help students see how the fractions are equivalent or not equivalent 
• Use of real-life examples to help students make meaning of fraction equivalence

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Are your students still struggling to understand equivalent fractions?

This ready to teach animated PowerPoint lesson plan is a time saving resource for building understanding of fraction equivalence for students. Engaging visuals, animations, and meaningful questions will help deepen students' understanding of equivalent fractions.

Use the note-taking guide to ensure students are following along and engaged in the lesson. 

Notes with talking points and directions included in the PowerPoint presentation to help guide you through the lesson.  

Assess students' understanding with questions and prompts embedded into the lesson as well as differentiated exit tickets and worksheets for independent practice following the lesson.

KEY POINTS: 

• Fractions can only be compared when the wholes are the same size.
• ​​Equivalent fractions are different fractions that share the same value.

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WHO?

• 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade students learning equivalent fractions 
• Upper elementary students
• Intervention groups
• Special education

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Learning objective

• Use area models to solve real world story problems about equivalent fractions
• Explain why two fractions are equivalent.
• Explain why two fractions can not be equivalent when the wholes are different sizes. 

PowerPoint Lesson Includes:

★TITLE SLIDE

★BUILD BACKGROUND SLIDES

• 4 slides to connect students to prior knowledge about equivalent fractions 
• Review from Equivalent Fractions Lesson 1
• Review terms: equivalent, equivalent fractions

★OBJECTIVE SLIDE

• In this lesson, you will use area models to solve fraction story problems and explain why two fractions are equivalent or not equivalent. 

★INTRODUCTION & DISCOVERY SLIDES

• Fair share: doughnut problems
• 6 slides
• Use slides to introduce the concept and give students an opportunity for some self-discovery of the concept

★ TEACHER DIRECT INSTRUCTION SLIDES: “I DO/WE DO” 

• Teacher direct instruction + guided practice 
• 11 slides
• 3 part story problem involving pizzas
• Animated slides to guide students and pause to allow for think time
• Use initial slides in this part of the lesson to directly model problem solving skills, then gradually release the work for students 

★GUIDED PRACTICE MODELS

• 4 slides: Make each model shown equivalent to a fraction
• Visually engaging slides to help students visualize how fractions with different numerators and denominators can be equivalent.

★GUIDED PRACTICE STORY PROBLEMS

• 10 slides: Review and practice concepts taught during direct teacher instruction slides
• Animations provide scaffolded supports for students with each click revealing a visual support until the final answer is shown

★RECAP SLIDE

• 1 slide to recap the main learnings of the lesson 

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WHAT’S INCLUDED:

★Animated PowerPoint Lesson (PPTX download)

• 38 instructional animated slides 
• Animations reveal the problems step-by-step to pause and give students time to think and discuss the information
• Animated slides & visual supports
• Present in presentation mode
• Notes section includes talking points and times to direct students to use the note-taking guide

★Animated Google Slides™ Lesson 

• Make a copy of presentation
• Same features as PPTX lesson above

★Detailed Lesson Plan

• Editable version in (Microsoft Word)
• Non-editable version (PDF)
• Learning objective
• Materials
• Vocabulary
• CCSS
• Key Learnings
• Each section of powerpoint broken down with questions, answers, tips for instruction, and scripted talking points

★Student Note-taking Guide

• Keep students engaged in the lesson as they follow along with their own note-taking guide which highlights key points in the lesson
• 3 pages (2 notes pages and 1 page with written story problems)
• Includes completed example for reference
• Notes included in the PowerPoint to guide students when they need to fill in the note-taking guide

★Differentiated Exit tickets- Digital & Print 

• Includes questions to assess students’ understanding
• 4 differentiated paper exit tickets 
• Self-grading digital exit ticket on Google Forms™ 
• Exit ticket Answer Key

★Independent Practice Worksheets

• Worksheet 1: Find Equivalent Fractions: 2 pages (2 different levels)- make each fraction model equivalent to a fraction

  • Level A: First model is shaded in for support
  • Level B: No models are shaded in (students shade in all models)

• Worksheet 2: Equivalent Fractions Story Problems: 2 pages (2 different levels)

  • Level A: Visual models included to support students
  • Level B: No visual models included- students draw their own models

• Worksheet answer key

★Learning objective 

• 6 versions the learning objective to print and display

PLEASE NOTE: 

• Visuals and text included in the PowerPoint presentation are not editable. The animations can be edited.
• Not listed in Google drive tool, digital download includes link to make a copy of Google Slides™ presentation in the PDF.

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FILE

★Zip file includes

• PowerPoint presentation (PPTX)
• Editable lesson (Microsoft Word)
• PDF:
  • Link to Google Slides™ presentation
  • Link to Google Form™ exit ticket
  • Non-editable lesson plan
  • Learning objective to display in classroom
  • Student note-taking guide
  • Filled in example of student note-taking guide
  • Student worksheets
  • Printable exit ticket

PLEASE NOTE: There is an editable version of the lesson plan in Microsoft word. No other parts of this resource are editable. 

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Common Core Alignment

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.3

Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about their size.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.A.1

Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n × a)/(n × b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.

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WAYS TO USE in your classroom

This resource is designed to be a guided lesson. The powerpoint doesn’t include draggable pieces for independent practice, but it is meant to be used in presentation mode.

• Whole group instruction
• Small group instruction
• Intervention groups

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